We are able to increase the mineral content of an end product both for technical applications and for use in food and nutritional supplements. Our Calcium Lactate PLUS, for example, has a calcium concentration of 17 %, which is higher than regular Calcium Lactate.

We granulate our mineral salts to improve their product characteristics for further processing by our customers. For example, homogeneous particle distribution and good flow properties facilitate dosage during further processing. Moreover, granulated salts produce less dust, minimizing material losses and making an important contribution to occupational health & safety.

We offer directly compressible (DC) granules for the production of normal and effervescent tablets without prior wet granulation. These can be directly pressed to create the end product. The result is more efficient production for manufacturers of pharmaceutical products and nutritional supplements. Our DC granules are also used in sticks.

Another form of physical product modification is micronization. We can mill our products to achieve very fine particle sizes down to 2 µm (d50). This increases the bioavailability of a mineral salt when applied in food or nutritional supplements. In other areas of application, micronization varies the solubility or suspension properties of a mineral salt.

Encapsulated minerals are separated from their environment at particle level by a capsule made of vegetable fat. This technique is used to mask the unpleasant original taste of a mineral salt used in food and nutritional supplements. In addition, it minimizes possible interactions between the mineral salt and the product.

Micronized salts can also be encapsulated. These products have an especially low sedimentation tendency, improved dispersion properties and optimum bioavailability.

We can adapt our products' bulk density to produce a mineral salt with an optimum weight-to-volume ratio for a given application.

In our triturations, the salts of various trace elements such as selenium, copper and molybdenum are homogeneously distributed in carriers such as maltodextrin, calcium carbonate and sodium citrate. This dilution process ensures safe and simple handling of our triturations as well as precise dosage and homogeneous distribution of the API in the end product. Our triturations can be used safely, simply and immediately in further processing.

Homogeneous mixtures with high mixing quality can be produced in a ratio of 1: 100,000.

The parameters that we can adapt and vary include dissolution in water and increased solubility of our products.

We also offer modifications of the pH value of the products.

In addition to the standard quality grades that conform to international pharmacopoeias or European and international food legislation, we achieve special purity grades to satisfy our customers' specifications:

Endotoxins are released when bacteria die and can, for example, trigger fever. Even minute quantities of endotoxins can provoke reactions of this nature. Therefore, low-endotoxin levels of purity are indispensable when mineral salts are used in injection, infusion and parenteral solutions. The manufacture of low-endotoxin products is subject to special requirements.

Therefore, we produce our low-endotoxin grades in a system designed specially for this purpose.

Special foods¹ for infants and young children are fortified with a variety of minerals to promote optimum growth and age-appropriate development. A sufficient intake of calcium and iron is hugely important in this connection.

Infant and follow-on formula is governed by special, particularly stringent limits on the heavy metal content, as stipulated by Regulation (EU) No. 1881/2006².

Aluminium limits for calcium phosphate are laid down in Regulation (EU) No. 231/2012³ on purity criteria for food additives. These limits must not be exceeded when using calcium phosphates in formula. Our calcium phosphates are 2.5 – 5 times lower than the maximum content.

Foods for special medical purposes (FSMPs) and pharmaceutical products are further applications where an especially low heavy metal content is essential.

As a manufacturer of mineral salts, we offer them in special, controlled, low heavy metal grades for these special product groups. This ensures that the heavy metal content of the resulting end products conforms to the EU regulations and pharmacopoeias relevant to our customers.

The special feature of our technical grades, in particular, is the high constancy of their chemical properties. What counts for our customers above all else is high process reliability, delivering reproducible results no matter how many batches are processed.

Our expertise in technical applications ranges from the finishing of metal surfaces to the control of setting processes in construction chemicals, and covers use in the petrochemical, glass and ceramic and numerous other industrial fields.