Thickening technologies for water-based multi-phase products in food, painting, pharmaceutical, personal care, ...

A multinational active in the consumer goods sector looks for water thickening technologies, which can build efficient structure/ rheology, long term stability, electrolyte tolerance, solid suspension, better sensory consumer acceptance with low cost and regulatory safe. The interested industry categories include, but are not limited to Food, Painting, Pharmaceutical and Personal care. The company is open to various types of partnership, including research collaboration.

The products of this multinational contain multi-phases (water, organic liquid, solid, electrolyte, and thickening agents). The company is interested in the leading thickening technology used in other categories, which also contain the similar multi-phase, especially how to thicken the water phases efficiently, suspension of solid and highly compatible with electrolytes, with better sensory as well.
The interested industry categories include, but are not limited to:
1. Food
2. Painting
3. Pharmaceutical
4. Personal care
Multi-phase herein means:
1. One of the main phases is water
2. Containing different types of insoluble particles
3. One of the phases is organics
4. A thickening system
Technology herein means deliverables from fundamental or applied research on:
1. Raw materials invention or;
2. Structure and rheology building efficiency and broad tolerance on electrolyte and solid
3. Base formula design;
4. Thickening mechanism understanding
5. Process developmentTechnical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:The company looks for:
1. Thickening technology that can improve the stability and electrolyte tolerance for the multiphase, mainly include but not limited to:
a. key ingredients used and the inventor/supplier
b. thickening mechanism and applied pH range.
c. formula design and process development.
2. Rheology control technology that can improve the structure building efficiency. whenever the multi-phase system is in stable as net product or during usage, including but not limited to target to:
a. polymer system
b. surfactant/gum system.
c. Trigged structure change, as neat product which is stable, in use the active being released effectively
3. Consumer in use experience:
a. dispersion homogeneously and quickly once dilute
b. active delivery to the target site effectively
c. pleasant consumer in use sensory experience
4. External partner who:
a. is experienced in thickening technology application.
b. is experienced in fundamental research on rheology control of multi-phase system
c. is preferred if has industry innovation experience.
Conversely the company is not interested in:
1.Carageenan
2.CMC
3.HEC
4.Carbomer
5.PEG
6.X-gum
7.Polyoxmer

Source: Enterprise Europe Network – consortium Sud-Ouest France (11 BE 0213 3LV5)

Opportunities

• Seeking technical partners

Scientific typology

- Type of partner sought: SME or large company, academia, ... - Specific area of activity of the partner: water thickening technology applied to food, paint, pharmaceutical, personal care, ... - Task to be performed by the partner sought: provide the company with the requested technology or alternatively help the company develop it .