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Food, Beverages, and Other Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Extract the specific compounds you want—in bulk—no matter how delicate. With clean technology from Vitalis, you can meet the rising demand for premium, high-value ingredients. Formulate products that are safer, purer, healthier, more flavourful, more aromatic, and more sustainably produced.

Clean Technology for Great Ingredients

  • Simplified Production

    With CO2 extraction, you get clean ingredients out of the system: no residual solvents of the type traditionally measured by regulators. Any CO2 in your collected ingredients evaporates away, quickly and naturally.

  • Closed-Loop Extraction

    The CO2 in a Vitalis system is recycled and reused as part of the process, which involves continuous cleaning and purification. That lowers your environmental impact and provides ongoing cost-effectiveness.

  • Lower Energy Use

    Integrated refrigeration with heat recovery can greatly reduce your energy costs and consumption. It can diminish the need for less-efficient third-party chilling and heating equipment.

  • Preservation of Delicate Compounds

    Vitalis CO2 systems can operate with both liquid and supercritical CO2. You can extract and separate valuable (but fragile) molecules at cold temperatures and low pressures to eliminate thermal degradation.

Extraction of Desired Flavours & Aromas

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Fragile compounds like terpenes require a gentle touch. That’s why every CO2 extraction system from Vitalis is capable of running at subcritical pressures and temperatures.

Hops, cannabis, and hemp are just a few of the numerous botanicals with delicate compounds that benefit from liquid CO2 extraction and separation at cold temperatures and low pressures.

With subcritical extraction, producers and ingredient suppliers can advance their positions in the marketplace. For instance, some of the largest hop extractors use Vitalis systems to create specialty hop concentrates with full flower aromas and consistent acid profiles for the most discerning brewers.

Removal of Undesirables Like Fats & Oils

(Supercritical Drying/Cleaning & Upcycling of Waste Products)

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Many commodities—like beans, peas, and lentils—can be transformed into higher-value ingredients by removing unwanted compounds. In some cases, the extracted compound is also valuable, leaving you with two functional and marketable product ingredients.

Coffee beans are a great example. CO2 extraction is highly effective for decaffeination. The decaffeinated beans are safe to use right out of the machine because the process leaves no residual solvent. And the extracted caffeine can be sold as an active ingredient for beverages, pharmaceuticals, or other products.

Companies also use Vitalis technology for upcycling traditionally wasted ingredients. Their processes transform materials that would otherwise go to landfills into multiple sustainable, high-value products.

Extraction of Nut & Seed Oils

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Consumer preferences are expanding to include an ever-broader range of clean, healthy oils. With Vitalis’ clean CO2 technology, you can extract pure oils from raw materials like borage seed, pecans, soy, and a huge variety of other nuts and seeds.

Tell Us What You’d Like to Produce

Ready to formulate clean, value-added ingredients? Curious whether something can be extracted for a new or novel product? Talk to us about arranging a feasibility study with our R&D team.