RECENT NEWS

Innospec has announced that it will acquire the European Personal Care and Home Care business of Huntsman. Based in Belgium with manufacturing sites in France, Italy and Spain, the business employs approximately 430 people and has sales revenue of around $230 million.

The global beauty and personal care industry continues to go from strength to strength. Luxury cosmetics, anti-ageing and skin whitening products have all helped maintain steady growth of around five percent over the last decade.

in-cosmetics North America is the brand new personal care ingredient sourcing event taking place this September in New York City.

Innospec's UK manufacturing site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire has won the UK Chemical Industries Association’s prestigious 2016 Health Leadership Award.

Euromonitor International has released a preview into the latest data on the beauty and personal care market ahead of its seminar at in-cosmetics North America

The hair is a complex structure with many variations in coloration and texture, and the brittleness and susceptibility to mechanical injury which causes hair damage, is a common occurrence.

Basildon Chemicals, a subsidiary of KCC Corporation, has recently made large investments in new technology and facilities at their Oxfordshire (UK) headquarters.

As of July 2016, Brenntag UK & Ireland has been appointed as a distribution partner of Stephenson Group for their Durosoft range of patent pending emulsifiers.

DSM Personal Care unveils new data on its emulsifier brand Amphisol K, which proves its excellent applicability in novel cosmetics formulations compared to similar potassium cetyl phosphate emulsification technologies.

Merck has entered into a long-term cooperation agreement with the French company Agrimer to use innovative marine active ingredients. This cooperation has now produced the first marine active ingredient from a new genetically decoded species of algae: RonaCare RenouMer is specifically designed to maintain the skin’s firmness and support collagen formation.

Korea’s cosmetic industry is accelerating rapidly and continues to command the spotlight as one of the leading nations in cosmetic trends, innovation and technology. Its influence seems to be reaching fever pitch, not only domestically but internationally too.

Croda International will be presenting the latest product launches, formulation expertise and insights at Stand E70 at the in-cosmetics exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, from 6 to 7 July.

Centre International de Développement Pharmaceutique (CIDP), a Mauritius-based private and independent Contract Research Organisation (CRO), will take part in the Sun Protection & Anti-ageing Skin Care Conference Asia 2016, which is slated to take place from 13 - 14 July at the Hilton Hotel, Singapore.

BASF exhibited its broad portfolio of aroma ingredients at the 2016 World Perfumery Congress at Fontainebleau Resort in Miami from June 13-15.

The organisers of the annual in-cosmetics Korea event have reported a huge increase in visitor pre-registration ahead of the 2016 show.

At this year’s in-cosmetics show in Paris, Personal Care magazine launched the Little Book of Novel Textures, a handy A5 guide to the latest innovations in texture enhancing ingredients that is full of prototype formulations for people to experiment with.

Revolymer has acquired Itaconix Corporation. The acquisition brings together Revolymer’s technical platforms to design novel polymers, with Itaconix’s expertise in the manufacture of itaconic acid polymers.

Evonik has said it is now the first in the world to use biotech methods for producing industrial-scale quantities of high-quality surfactants.

BRB has announced that the new BRB Malaysia plant was opened on 2 June 2016. With the official grand opening of the new Silicone Synthesis plant, BRB has expanded its Malaysian industrial footprint to further back integrate in dimethicone copoyols, alkyl dimethicones and volatile dimethicones.

Floratech has announced Connell Bros. Company (India) as their first exclusive distributor to serve all India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.