- Ingredients and Food
Supercritical CO2 extraction and separation
Equipment and facilities
Process development and toll manufacturing services for obtaining natural ingredients
Consumers are evolving and paying increasing attention to sustainability and product origin. Demand for natural ingredients and products manufactured under sustainable standards is growing. CO2 extraction processes avoid the use of organic solvents and result in high-value, stable ingredients including natural extracts, essential oils, defatted ingredients and enhanced protein ingredients. The search for new ingredient sources is a challenge, as is their sustainable and clean extraction.
Ingredient quality is a key factor for commercialisation, which is why solutions are sought that do not compromise the properties of natural ingredients. In addition, the management of extraction effluents represents a cost for companies, affecting their competitiveness and bargaining capacity.
At AINIA, we add value
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Processing services for obtaining natural ingredients using supercritical CO2. We have a multipurpose industrial plant with ECO, COSMOS and GMP certifications
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Turnkey solutions
We develop ideas through to industrial production
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Pilot trials and preliminary techno-economic studies to guarantee feasibility
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Sustainable extraction process without organic solvents or waste generation
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Techno-economic studies to guarantee feasibility
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A more sustainable solution than conventional alternatives
Clean technology that generates no waste
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Multipurpose industrial plant
ECO and Good Manufacturing Practice certifications
Supercritical CO2 extraction and separation
Supercritical CO2 extraction is an efficient and natural alternative that enables the production of new ingredients (food and cosmetic ingredients, functional ingredients, fragrances, APIs), defatting and the removal of impurities or unwanted substances (aromas, pesticides…). In addition, high-pressure CO2 enables microbiological inactivation without the need for high temperatures and can also be used for impregnation and advanced material treatment.
Food
-Production of natural extracts
-Food defatting
-Removal of unwanted substances
Cosmetics
-Extraction of essential oils and vegetable fats
-Extraction of fragrances and functional ingredients
-Removal of unwanted substances
Pharma
-Extraction of active pharmaceutical ingredients (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, APIs)
-Removal of unwanted substances
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