The biotech companies that cooperation to produce fragrance and
flavoring products
Nowadays, in the perfume industry, the many big companies participate
with each other and cooperation with biotech companies such as Royal DSM
or Ginko Bioworks worldwide in order to produce natural flavoring
compounds with high quality and efficiency that are involved in
producing the microbial based perfumes and flavors from abundant sugar
feed-stocks by fermenting sugars. Among these, companies Allylix and
Evolva can be mentioned which cooperation, synthesized valencene
(a sesquiterpene that
is an aroma component of valencia oranges), nootkatone (a
natural organic
compound, a sesquiterpenoid, and
a ketone that is the most
important and expensive aromatic
of grapefruit),
vanillin (is obtained from the extraction of vanilla beans, but today,
due to the scarcity and high cost of extraction, synthetic vanillin is
more widely used), artificial sweeteners such as stevia and etc. by
biotechnology methods. Other companies include Isobionics, Givaudan,
Firmenich, International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Robertet which
have improved their way to the production of natural compounds with high
purity and quality towards new biotechnological methods [117].
The table 9 is presented a general comparison of conventional, novel and
biotechnology methods.
Table 9. A general comparison of conventional, novel and biotechnology
methods