RECENT NEWS

Sabinsa Corporation has announced the death of Dr Rajinder K. Bammi on 15 December 2012 in Bangalore, India. Sabinsa said they had lost: “…a good friend, mentor and one of the primary people responsible for Sabinsa’s portfolio of health-enhancing ingredients”.

Greentech’s cutaneous biology event, the 3rd SPIM, convened in November 2012, and ran over two days bringing together more than twenty international high-level speakers.

Cornelius Group, the independent European distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients has announced two changes of responsibility within the Board. Cornelius CEO, Dr Neville Prior (pictured), said to Personal Care Europe:

The new in-cosmetics App will contain full details on the show’s features and programmes, a searchable exhibitor directory and all the information on the new products and innovations that will be on show in April.

in-cosmetics 2013 has announced that the Société Française des Parfumeurs (SFP) – the French Perfumers Society – will be the official partner of the show’s brand new Fragrance in Cosmetics Zone.

Air Liquide has announced the acquisition of BiotechMarine by its subsidiary Seppic. BiotechMarine is a leading player in the design and marketing of active ingredients for the global cosmetics industry.

H3i is the only event in the UK that offers delegates access to a whole range of raw materials and ingredients as well as experts in formulations and formulation techniques for creating HI&I cleaning products.

Merck Chemicals China announced that its Pigments & Cosmetics Technology Application Network China (TANC) has opened in Shanghai.

Sederma has been awarded the 2012 European New Product Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan for its product Legance, anti-ageing for leg care.

Brazilian-based company, Beraca, has made two new management appointments. Thiago Terada has been appointed as Beraca’s new sustainability and corporate responsibility specialist, while Malena Araujo joins as biodiversity manager.

The Dow Chemical Company has increased its propylene glycol (PG) capacity by an additional 10 kilotons per annum (KTA) at its Stade, Germany plant. The increase is part of the second optimisation of this large-scale expansion realised in August 2010.

Croda has recognised the demand for new sensory experiences and so, for the past few years the Sun Care & Biotechnology team has focused on technology to deliver new sensations and has announced the launch of Solaveil ST-100.

IMCD Group is among a select group of 16 companies, out of an eligible 250, to be awarded the Lean & Green Star award. This award is given to companies that commit themselves to significantly reducing their CO2 emissions, submitting a satisfactory action plan that is subsequently assessed and approved.

Research by scientists at the University of Bath, UK, is challenging claims that nanoparticles in medicated and cosmetic creams are able to transport and deliver active ingredients deep inside the skin.

DKSH’s Business Unit Performance Materials has expanded the partnership in the field of coatings and additives with Evonik Industries.

Symrise has been marking thirty years in the China market. It all began in 1982 with the registration of ‘JV 003’ as the third joint venture in Shanghai. This was a milestone, making Symrise the first international supplier of fragrances in mainland China.

The 2nd Asia Pacific edition of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit drew to a successful close in Hong Kong in November. A major outcome is that the Asian cosmetics industry needs to raise the bar for sustainability.

Dr Kikuo Okuyama of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University in Japan, was the first customer to take delivery of a Zetasizer Nano ZSP, the new top-of-the-range dynamic light scattering system from Malvern Instruments.

The DSM Personal Care Business Unit has announced the global launch of its new antiageing peptide complex, SYN-TC.

Speciality chemical company, Clariant, and Wilmar International Limited, a leading Asian agribusiness group, have, through their respective subsidiaries, signed an agreement to establish a 50-50 joint venture as the global platform for production and sales of amines and selected amines derivatives.