MUNICH, GERMANY/ SINGAPORE: With an official inauguration of a new food laboratory at its technical centre in Singapore, Wacker Chemie AG has expanded its range of services in Asia. This laboratory is devoted to innovative food ingredients, dietary supplements and gumbase applications for e.g. fat-free desserts, egg-free bakery goods, coconut milk powder without caseinate, vegan meat flavours and highly bioavailable curcumin.
The new laboratory enables the company to provide its customers in Asia with even better service as well as support for the development of novel, tailored products in the fast-growing market for food solutions.
The food market activities of Wacker BioSolutions, the life sciences and biotechnology division within the Wacker Group, are focusing primarily on food ingredients and dietary supplements. The company already operates dedicated food laboratories in US and Germany to provide its customers with the best service. The new laboratory in Singapore will focus on applications involving cyclodextrins, cysteine and hydroxytyrosol intended for the special demands and needs of Asia.
The ring-shaped cyclodextrin sugar molecules, which Wacker bioengineers developed from plant-based raw materials, such as corn and potatoes, can replace conventional animal-derived emulsifiers, e.g. egg yolk in mayonnaise, egg white and hard fats in desserts and icings, and milk protein in instant coconut milk powder.
Moreover, they can protect sensitive ingredients, such as vitamins and co-enzymes against harmful influences, e.g. oxygen and light, increase the bioavailability of hydrophobic substances, such as curcumin, and mask the bitter taste of health-promoting substances, such as green tea extract.
Fermentation-prepared cysteine from Wacker can serve as a vegan and halal-certified raw material for meat flavours and as a processing auxiliary in bakeries. HTEssence, Wacker’s nature-identical hydroxytyrosol, is used in food supplements such as hard capsules, energy bars and drinks. Hydroxytyrosol is a highly effective antioxidant that is claimed to have therapeutic effects on blood pressure and the immune and cardiovascular systems and is used in food supplements such as tablets, energy bars and drinks. Wacker’s solid resins for gumbase further make it possible to quickly and efficiently produce high-quality products for the rapidly growing chewing gum market.
“Asia is a focus market for the food industry and therefore for our innovative food ingredients and dietary supplements, too. With this facility, which is unique in the region, we can further augment our position as an innovative partner to the food industry,” said Dr Gerhard Schmid, president of Wacker BioSolutions.
“The new laboratory will allow us to do an even better job of adapting our products to our customers' needs and to the demands of local industry. It provides us with a unique selling proposition in the region and allows us to offer substantial added value to our Asian customers,” added Patrick de Wolf, managing director of Wacker south East Asia.
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