Food & Health
CO2 extraction permits to obtain oily extracts from natural products at low temperatures and without using organic solvents.
CO2 extraction permits to obtain oily extracts from natural products at low temperatures and without using organic solvents.
Compared to cold press extraction, CO2 is specially good when high yields are required or when starting amount of oily material is not high. In these cases, cold pressing is not able to extract the oil and CO2 is the alternative.
So, CO2 extraction is widely used to obtain high value oils to be used as Food suplements, flavours, antioxidants, from vegetal materials like:
SAW PALMETTO OIL (SERENOA REPENS)
CHAMOMILE EXTRACT
SEA BUCKTHORN EXTRACT
ROSEMARY
GINGER OIL
MICROALGAE OILS
POMEGRANATE SEED OIL
HOP EXTRACT
CUMIN OIL
PEPPER OIL
Supercritical CO2 extraction is a solvent free, effective and innovative process to obtain oils and natural extracts are usually searched as attractive fragrances or active ingredients by Cosmetic industry.
Compared to cold press extraction, CO2 is specially good when high yields are required or when starting amount of oily material is not high. In these cases, cold pressing is not able to extract the oil and CO2 is the alternative. CO2 extracted oils add value to cosmetics enhancing their functional action and / or pleasant attributes.
Our services include:
EXTRACTION OF FRAGANCES AND FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS
In many cases flavour ingredients are not in high concentration in the natural materials. Besides, extraction process has to be selective to avoid the extraction of other not interesting substances that reduce the quality and purity of the extract. Supercritical CO2 extraction is in many cases the best solution for the obtention of these perfumery ingredients, extracting them from
We offer our processing services to obtain your extracts with supercritical CO2 extraction technology.
CO2 is a green solvent, and ALTEX is organic certified, so organic certificate is available for the extracts obtained with this technology at our facility.
EXTRACTION OF FINE OILS AND VEGETAL FATS (NATURAL BUTTERS)