RECENT NEWS

DKSH has entered into an agreement to acquire Melbourne-based Tiger Chemicals Company, which will be integrated into DKSH’s business unit Performance Materials.

The Union of Ethical Biotrade (UEBT) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Soliance announced the arrival of Paolo Marchesi as executive sales director from September 2011. Paolo joined Soliance in late 2005 as export area manager in charge of United States as well as Western Europe and Asian countries.

Floratech has announced that James Phillips has been promoted to the position of senior territory sales manager.

To complete its range of natural actives, ID bio offers a tensor ingredient with immediate action.

Sophie Baranowski joined Greentech France in September 2011. A graduate of both marketing communications and foreign languages, Sophie has 16 years of experience in the organisation of international trade shows and sales.

Merck KGaA announced recently a global price increase for all its pigments and cosmetic raw materials, in most cases up between 5% and 15%, and in select cases up to 30%.

FormulaCare is gearing up for a new look says founder and director of the event, Pamela Jones. The original FormulaCare was staged in the Philippines in March 2010 and saw feedback from participants highlighting a real need for formulation training for chemists in the personal care industry in the ASEAN region.

Natural Products Expo Asia (NPEA), a leading exhibition for natural, organic and healthy living products and ingredients, closed its most successful show to date with 8,572 visitors from across 54 countries and regions.

Clariant combines natural origins with advanced sensory effects in its new “Touch of Nature” range of personal care ingredients for skin, body and hair care formulations launched recently.

A new ingredient launched by Provital promises global protection and resistance for shiny and healthy hair.

It has been announced that Basildon Chemicals has been purchased by the KCC Corporation of Korea, opening up new opportunities for both companies.

Ashland is responding to strong demand for Natrosol hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) by expanding HEC production across its global network through capacity additions at its facilities in Nanjing, China, and Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands.

DSM Nutritional Products has announced that its 100% pure Argan Oil is now certified to the highest organic certification standards by both Ecocert and Natrue.

Evonik plans to expand its Research & Development (R&D) centre in Shanghai Xinzhuang with an investment of e18 million. The expansion includes the construction of a four-storey R&D building with a footprint of more than 10,000 square meters.

The SCSS returned to the Amara Hotel in Singapore for their second suppliers’ day, which was held on Friday 2 September. This year’s event attracted 91 delegates coming from Singapore, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

Derived from marine biotechnology, EPS Seamat, from Codif, is a marine exopolysaccharide with a unique and completely new structure which gives it the property of an immediate mattifying agent.

The organisers behind in-cosmetics Asia have announced the revised dates of 14 – 16 December 2011 for their leading personal care ingredients event in Bangkok.

AMA Laboratories Inc. founded in 1984, is a clinical testing laboratory devoted to the evaluation of finished cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients such as sunscreens, wrinkle treatments, moisturizes, hair products, etc. We test these products for efficacy in both in vivo and in vitro environments.

Acyl lactylates with different chain lengths have been used in skin and hair care products for their multiple cosmetic benefits for many years.