Food, Flavor & Fragrance Industry
Sulzer is committed to support food, flavor, and fragrance producers with advanced separation and purification technologies that improve product quality, reduce operating costs, and minimize environmental impact. Our solutions are designed to deliver efficiency and reliability across a wide variety of applications, from natural extracts and essential oils to edible ingredients and vitamins.
Enhancing Food, Flavor, and Fragrance Production with Purity, Efficiency, and Sustainability
Main applications of food, flavor and fragrance industry
Natural Extracts & Bio-based Compounds
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Essential oils
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Omega-3 / Vitamins
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Herbal extracts
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Terpenes (Limonene, Pinene, Myrcene)
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Aromatic compounds (Eugenol, Vanillin, Anethole)
Alcohols & Esters
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Ethanol
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Butanol
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Ethyl Acetate
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Butyl Acetate
Acids & Anhydrides
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Acetic Acid
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Adipic Acid
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PTA
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Maleic Anhydride
Enhancing food, flavor, and fragrance production with purity, efficiency, and sustainability
The food, flavor, and fragrance industry plays a critical role in daily life, creating ingredients that shape the taste, aroma, and functionality of countless products. Producers today must deliver consistent purity and sensory quality while also responding to rising energy costs, stricter regulations, and consumer demand for sustainable, bio-based ingredients. Meeting these requirements calls for technologies that combine efficiency with selectivity, ensuring the recovery of high-value compounds without compromising safety or sustainability.
Operating in today’s food, flavor and fragrance sector means addressing multiple, interconnected challenges:
High-Purity Extraction for Natural Ingredients
Isolate and concentrate delicate compounds like essential oils, vitamins, and natural extracts with precision and care.
Compliance & Quality for Food-Grade Products
Meet strict regulatory and sensory standards with technologies that ensure consistent purity and product integrity.
Efficient & Sustainable Processing
Reduce energy use, solvent consumption, and waste with optimized separation systems designed for cost-effective operations.
Flexible Solutions for Evolving Consumer Demands
Adapt to bio-based feedstocks and changing market trends with scalable technologies that support innovation and circularity.
Our solutions enable food, flavor, and fragrance producers to meet the highest standards of purity and quality while improving efficiency and sustainability. We provide advanced technologies for the extraction, concentration, and purification of valuable compounds, ensuring consistent performance across a wide range of applications from edible oils and sweeteners to essential oils, vitamins, and natural extracts. By optimizing solvent use and energy demand, we reduce operating costs while minimizing emissions and waste streams.
Our processes are designed to handle delicate, heat-sensitive compounds with care, preserving product integrity and sensory characteristics. Flexible and adaptable to both traditional and bio-based feedstocks, our technologies give producers the tools to innovate, secure compliance, and meet growing consumer expectations for sustainable and high-quality products.
Our solutions for food, flavor and fragrance industry
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Concentrate on aromas and flavors
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Case Study
Purity challenges in essential oil industry
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Case Study
Sustainable aroma preservation
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Case Study
Maximizing flavors and fragrances
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Maximizing flavors and fragrances value with Excelot™ and DistilCare™
Overview
Discover how a leading manufacturer achieved >99.8 wt% purity for heat-sensitive aroma compounds. Download the full resource to learn how Sulzer’s custom Excelot™ and DistilCare™ distillation systems maximized recovery and prevented thermal degradation.
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