RECENT NEWS

Croda International Plc has celebrated the grand opening of its Collaboration & Training Centre (CTC) and the expansion of its alkoxylation facilities in Singapore. The inauguration ceremony was officiated by the guest-of-honour, Mr Lim Kok Kiang, assistant managing director from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), and Mr David Barraclough, president of Croda Asia Pacific.

A dedicated country pavilion, product trails, Marketing Trend presentations and the latest innovations will highlight the success of the Japanese C&T market.

Naolys, the French company specialised in plant cell culture claims new tests results with whole plant cells from Rose from Damas.

The 11th International Congress of the International Society of Cosmetic Dermatology will be held in Beijing, China, from September 26 to 28 this year.

Indena has announced the opening of an affiliate in São Paulo, Brazil (Indena Brasil Ltda). This new affiliate will play a key role in enhancing the company’s presence in Brazil and, strategically, overall in the continent, to further support Indena’s distributors and markets.

Making Cosmetics, which took place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, has been hailed a success by the organisers, Step Exhibitions. The visitor numbers at Making Cosmetics mirrored the increase in the exhibition and seminar content from 2013 – 2014.

Alzo International Inc has appointed Aston Chemicals as their exclusive distributor in the UK, Ireland and Poland.

In support of their rapidly expanding personal care business, Innospec Performance Chemicals (Salisbury, NC) has added three new formulation chemists. Ken Haun has been appointed formulation & application manager, Personal Care, NA.

Reed Exhibitions has announced the launch of a new addition to its portfolio in Asia. in-cosmetics Korea will take place on 15-16 June 2015 at the COEX Exhibition Centre in Seoul and will be the country’s only exhibition and educational event of its kind for the personal care ingredients industry.

Honeywell has named Heidi Lebel as global business manager and Alice Tenny as technology manager for Honeywell’s Asensa personal care business.

The trend for natural ingredients in the cosmetic industry continues to develop. With BergaCare SB Organic shea butter, Berg+Schmidt has a solution for producers of natural cosmetics.

Ingredient supplier AAK Personal Care has hired a new global sales manager and technical support manager. AAK Personal Care anticipates continued growth due to increased demand for more natural and sustainable products in the cosmetics industry and rising consumption of personal care products in emerging markets.

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Company LLC has launched a virtual Cosmetics Science Center offering free, video-on-demand, cosmetic science training modules.

The 2014 PCHi exhibition and conference in Guangzhou was heralded a great success. Across the 3 days from 19-21 February, 8,189 visitors and 380 exhibitors came together at the Shanghai New International Expo Center to exchange ideas and technological information to benefit the future of the personal care industry.

During in-cosmetics 2014 in Hamburg, Croda launched its OleoCraft range, a group of oil structuring polymers that create impressive films on the skin, lip and eyelash, delivering water and wear resistance benefits in colour cosmetic and sun care applications.

Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak officiated at the groundbreaking of an integrated aroma ingredients complex, set up in Gebeng, Kuantan, by BASF and Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad via their joint venture company BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn Bhd.

TRI-K Industries has developed a unique, multifunctional protein that targets anti-ageing for hair care. Baobab Tein NPNF is an exotic ingredient derived from baobab that helps to repair damage, increase hair strength, protect from UV damage, moisturise dry hair and nourish strands from root to tip.

The SFC has announced it is ready to welcome the cosmetics industry to Paris in October for the 28th IFSCC Congress. “This is an honour and a real challenge for the sector’s 2nd European market,” declared Claudie Willemin, president of the Société Française de Cosmétologie (SFC).

With approximately 50% of women and 30% of men claiming to have sensitive skin, Sederma targets the needs for this skin type with its new ingredient launch, Pacifeel. Pacifeel is a plantbased active ingredient that addresses both the signs and causes of sensitive and reactive skin.

Reed Exhibitions, the organisers of the in-cosmetics group of events, has announced the launch of a new addition to its portfolio in Asia.