AINIA
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AINIA, reference center in innovation, offers personalized solutions to the needs of functional food, nutricosmetics and nutraceutical companies, developing new active ingredients with the latest technologies such as:
- Microencapsulation, which allows, by coating particles of specific ingredients to achieve microcapsules with certain characteristics. It helps companies to achieve the protection of sensitive ingredients (vitamins, minerals, enzymes or essential oils) from external agents, and to create new functional ingredients with higher absorption and bioavailability of nutrients and healthy supplements, among other properties.
- Supercritical CO2 extraction and fractionation. ALTEX, AINIA´s industrial plant provides companies supercritical CO2 extraction and purification services, to obtain their own natural extracts, defatted materials and other purified products and ingredients.
- Biotechnology, including microbial fermentation and cellular biosynthesis
- In-vitro preclinical studies, including in vitro dynamic digestion and cell-based models
- Omics techniques for in-depth characterisation
Our solutions are sustainable and circular, with a strong focus in the upcycling of by-products with the highest standards of quality and security. Our certified laboratories offer companies different solutions and analysis such as food contaminants and microbiological analysis, packaging studies, challenge test or conservation studies.