Vitafoods Barcelona 2025 – with a focus on excipients

This year´s Vitafoods Europe opens its doors in Barcelona at Fira Barcelona Gran Via.

From 20th to 22th May you can have a face-to-face chat with visitors and exhibitors again.

PharmaExcipients gives you an overview of the excipient suppliers, their booths, main topics and products in the following:

ADM unlocks the power of nature to enrich the quality of life. As an essential global agricultural supply chain manager and processor, a premier human and animal nutrition provider, a trailblazer in health and well-being, and a leader in sustainability, it is meeting critical needs while nourishing quality of life and supporting a healthier planet.

Ingredients:

Colours
Flavourings
Sweeteners
Botanicals & Herbs
Microorganisms & Probiotics
Dietary fibres
Prebiotics
Enzymes
Proteins – Plant
Vitamins

📍 Booth: 3K109

ARMOR PROTEINES is part of the Savencia Fromage & Dairy division, one of the world’s leading milk processors, the second largest cheese group in France and the fifth largest in the world.

Armor Proteines is the French brand for speciality dairy ingredients. Over the years, the brand has expanded by offering tailored solutions for functional and nutritional ingredients, derived from milk and whey.
It offers a wide range of dairy ingredients such as milk proteins (casein(ates)), bioactive proteins like its infant grade lactoferrin, hydrolysates and milk minerals (calcium).

📍 Booth: 3J136D

BENEO offers a range of functional ingredients with health and technical benefits derived from the natural sources chicory root, barley, sugar beet, rice, wheat and faba bean. With its Meatless range, BENEO offers food producers a versatile selection of plant-based texturizing solutions for meat and fish alternatives. By “connecting nutrition and health”, the company supports food and feed manufacturers to produce healthy and more balanced products. BENEO also supplies organic rice ingredients for green, clean, texturizing solutions and organic chicory root fibres, offering the same prebiotic benefits as our conventional ingredients.

At the Vitafoods 2025, BENEO will present galenIQ^™, a premium pharmaceutical excipient renowned for its sweet taste and versatile functionality as a filler and binder. It stands out because of the ease of use and compatibility across various solid and liquid dosage forms, ranging from tablets and sachets to lozenges and syrups.

📍 Booth: 4D37

BIOGRUND is specialized in homogeneous mixing of excipients & carriers. Tailor-made & ready-to-use film coating, tableting, coloring and capsule filling systems for dietary supplements and pharmaceutical applications. Development and production of clean label formulations with natural/organic ingredients and free of titanium dioxide or other undesired excipients like talc, SiO2, MgSt etc.

The formulation specialist for solid oral dosage forms focuses on sustainable film coating and tableting systems for the nutraceutical industry.

If you struggling to find clean label ingredients, BIOGRUND helps you with its green solutions for film coating, tableting, capsule filling and is offering a reformulation service.

With its wide range of tableting premixes BIOGRUND cares about your tablets as much as you care about your patients.

If you have problems with hygroscopic tablets, the AquaPolish® MS ready-to-use film coating system reliably protects your tablets from moisture.

Partners ShinEtsu and Erweka will also be represented at the stand.

ShinEtsu will be presenting its TYLOPUR Xtend Nutra® line for controlled, extended release of active compounds.
Erweka, a leading manufacturer of high-quality tablet testing equipment, will complete this year’s Vitafoods presentation with a demo machine.

Biogrund Vitafoods — See the Biogrund samples at Vitafoods 2025

📍Booth: 4F68

Budenheim is a globally operating specialty chemical company. With its innovative portfolio, the chemical specialist provides sustainable products, services, and application concepts for various markets. In close cooperation with its customers, Budenheim is dedicated to advancing nutrition, health, safety, and the preservation of resources.

Budenheim’s quality mineral products add nutritional and functional value to its customers’ formulations, allowing them to meet a wide range of specific dietary needs. As a trusted partner, it is committed to enabling progress in early life, preventive and medical nutrition, enriching people’s health and quality of life at every stage.

📍 Booth: 3K221

Dr. Paul Lohmann® is the world’s leading manufacturer and provider of specialty Mineral Salts for the food, nutritional supplement, pharmaceutical and personal care industry. Over 135 years of manufacturing experience, combined with an innovative spirit and high flexibility enables Dr. Paul Lohmann® to respond to changing needs. Customers can profit from the broadest available portfolio of high value Mineral Salts, with more than 400 products in a range of qualities, designed to provide optimum performance across a wide range of applications.

As a manufacturing expert for tailor-made Mineral Salts, Dr. Paul Lohmann is gearing up for an exciting showcase at Vitafoods Europe 2025, where it will spotlight:

Minerals for sports nutrition: Power up with Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc and Iron for athletic excellence
Diversity of Magnesium Citrates: Dr. Paul Lohmann guides you to find the suitable taste profile, solubility, and particle size for your unique Magnesium application
High value Mineral Bisglycinates: Discover its wide range of fully reacted Amino Acid Chelates, e.g. Iron, Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc and many more

Are you curious about how Minerals can promote the nutritional value of your foods and food supplements? Contact Dr. Paul Lohmann to unlock the secrets of seamless formulation enhancement.

📍 Booth: 4J62

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH is a leading global provider of process solutions and plant engineering for particle design. As a pioneer in fluidized bed technology, it develops tailor-made systems and services for the food, animal feed and chemical industries. It specializes in the development, production and optimization of powders, granulates and pellets from solid and liquid raw materials. The refinement of powders by means of granulation, agglomeration, microencapsulation and coating creates high-quality products with functional properties:

● Drying liquids into dustfree + flowable granuels

● Adjusting the solubility of instant products perfectly

● Drying and stabilization of probiotics, enzymes and vitamins

● Improving the solubility of proteins

● Stabilizing oxidation-sensitive or volatile substances like essential oils

Glatt technologies influence particle size and particle size distribution, particle structure and surface and improve flowability, solubility, dosability, shelf life, further processing, handling.

Click here to watch Glatt’s introductory video on “Solubility of collagen hydrolysate – spray drying vs. Glatt spray granulation”.

📍 Booth: 4B62

IFF/Pharma Solutions by Roquette – In an ever-evolving complex world, you can rely on IFF Pharma Solutions – Pharma Solutions Powered by Roquette to provide answers at every turn. Its ability to deliver is powered by Its world-class polymer expertise and problem-solving mindset.

The new Roquette unit supports its partners in developing with confidence life-saving drugs, everyday wellness solutions, and vital consumer products. Its team of problem solvers and experts is committed to providing resourceful excipient and ingredient science powered by customer-centric solutions in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biologic, and dietary supplement industries.

Whether you strive for more efficient dietary supplement manufacturing, need to develop a new market-leading product or want to optimize your existing health solution – you can rely on Pharma Solutions Powered by Roquette. Tap into its technical expertise, extensive portfolio and cutting-edge capabilities, whether it’s delivering a sugar-free vegan gummy with better sensory experience, a plant-based softgel, masking bitter tastes or improving the manufacturing process. Discover how you can be supported by your global, solutions-driven partner.

IFF Pharma solutions, now part of Roquette

📍 Booth: 4F25

ingredientpharm is specialized in the development and marketing of functional excipients for solid and liquid food formulations with a strong expertise in controlled release and taste masking applications. ingredientpharm focuses on taste masking and production performance using innovative formulation and technology approaches. ADD is Swiss based and is acting internationally. ingredientpharm does not offer products only but also complete solutions to support your product development and production.

ingredientpharm is presenting water-soluble CBD (0% THC) and taste-masked caffeine intermediates for solida and liquid applications.

ingredientpharm is further active in pharma, pharmaceutics and nutraceutics applications with strong support in formulation development.

📍 Booth: 4B62

IOI Oleochemical‘s German branch is among the leading European suppliers of oleochemical specialties. With more than 300 employees at its headquarters in Hamburg and its two production sites in Witten and Wittenberge, IOI Oleo GmbH produces and sells a broad range of oleochemical products for a large number of industrial applications.

In addition to active ingredients and excipients for the pharmaceutical industry, emollients, emulsifiers, texturizers and a wide variety of multifunctional ingredients for the cosmetic industry, IOI Oleo GmbH offers special esters and additives for products in the food segment. Processing aids and lubricants for technical applications as well as basic oleochemicals (e.g. polyunsaturated fatty acids) round off our portfolio.

📍 Booth: 4C109

IPC – The International Process Center in Dresden, Germany is your outsourcing partner from product development to full-scale manufacturing.

Together with its clients IPC develops tailormade products in form of granules and pellets for various applications. Its longterm experience in the development and production of additives/supplements in the food, feed and fine chemical industries helps IPC realize your ideas quickly and to full extent. Furthermore, as a brand of the Glatt group, IPC is familiar with the processing of pharmaceutical dosage forms.

You can rely on its know-how as well as on its four-shift production service seven days a week. Flexible scheduling of your orders and the willingness to invest in new technologies is a common practice for IPC. Your satisfaction is its highest priority.

📍 Booth: 4B62

Kerry is the world’s leading taste and nutrition partner for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical markets. Kerry innovates with its customers to create great-tasting products, with improved nutrition and functionality, while ensuring better impact for the planet. Kerry’s leading consumer insights, global RD&A team of 1,100+ food scientists and extensive global footprint enables Kerry to solve its customers complex challenges with differentiated solutions. At Kerry is driven to be its customers’ most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition, and will reach over 2 billion consumers with sustainable nutrition solutions by 2030.

📍 Booth: 3K86

KLK OLEO is a global player in oleochemicals and phytonutrients, offering an array of high quality, natural and sustainable products. KLK OLEO supplies bioactives for nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals, and functional ingredients for food and nutrition applications. Derived From Nature, Driven By Science. Its natural, branded and patented ingredients host a wide range of functional benefits to include healthy ageing, improved sports performance, energy enhancement, and more.

Ingredients:

Antioxidants
- Tocopherols
- Other Antioxidants
Other Additives
Vitamins
Emulsifiers, Stabilisers, Thickeners
- Other Emulsifiers, Stabilisers, Thickeners
Carotenoids
- Beta-carotene
Other Bioactives
- Phytochemicals

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📍 Booth: CC.B13

LACTALIS HEALTH NUTRITION is the specialized division of LACTALIS Group dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing products of Infant, Clinical and Active Nutrition.

Over the years, Lactalis Health Nutrition has become a world-renowned reference for expert nutritional solutions combining science and pleasure, helping patients and customers all over the world to grow, live and age in good health. Leveraging Lactalis Group’s milk expertise, it focuses our innovation on top-quality milk-based ingredients for infant, clinical and medical nutrition.

At Vitafoods 2025, Lactalis will present its range of Lactalpha products.

📍 Booth: 3C136D

Lipoid, the world’s leading supplier of natural purified lecithin and phospholipids on an industrial scale, showcases their versatile ingredient solutions at Vitafoods. Their phospholipids serve as both a natural source of choline and as encapsulating agents for innovative delivery systems including liposomes and emulsions.

These advanced delivery systems significantly improve stability and bioavailability of nutrients, addressing the emerging trend for enhanced bioavailability while recognizing the challenges many producers face in creating high-quality formulations. Essential to this process are Lipoid’s highly purified phospholipids.

Lipoid offers complete solutions across the entire production spectrum:

High-grade purified phospholipids as raw materials
Pre-formulations like LIPOID Liposome Basic H and PHOSAL H 50 for simplified incorporation of both hydrophilic and lipophilic ingredients
Ready-to-fill formulations (PhytoSolve®) combining phospholipids with various nutrients for brand owners without production facilities

As a comprehensive solutions provider, Lipoid enables manufacturers at every stage to leverage the benefits of phospholipid technology for superior nutrient delivery and bioavailability enhancement.

📍 Booth: CC.B3

Lubrizol Nutraceuticals optimizes ingredient delivery with its advanced microencapsulation technologies. Its commitment to enhancing consumer health is driven by innovative, science-backed branded ingredients. Leveraging its deep understanding of consumer needs and scientific expertise, Lubrizol offers a diverse portfolio of microencapsulated minerals and botanicals designed to drive innovation, simplify product development, and improve health outcomes.

Its flagship brands include:

LIPOFER™ microcapsules: A world-renowned microencapsulated iron that ensures enhanced stability and absorption without any metallic taste, making iron supplements more palatable.
MAGSHAPE™ microcapsules: A highly concentrated microencapsulated magnesium known for its superior flowability and compressibility.
CURCUSHINE™ microcapsules: Its latest addition, Curcushine microcapsules, offer bioavailable and dispersible curcumin. New clinical data shows how Curcushine rejuvenates skin from within.
NEWCAFF™ microcapsules: Microencapsulated caffeine that delivers a sustained release with a clean, non-bitter taste.

By integrating the latest consumer insights, comprehensive market knowledge, and its cutting-edge microencapsulation technology, Lubrizol empowers supplement manufacturers to create premium, differentiated nutraceutical solutions with leading performance claims.

📍 Booth: 4F10

MAGNESIA GmbH has been a supplier of high-quality mineral compounds for over 40 years and is today internationally known for its high service orientation, product quality as well as level of innovation.

Based on magnesium, calcium, zinc, and other elements, MAGNESIA offers a wide range of mineral compounds for use in dietary supplements.

Magnesia - Vitafoods

Particular highlights on the Vitafoods 2025 include its highly active magnesium oxide, a vitamin K2 in the MK7 trans-form, as well as undenatured type II collagen for use in supplement formulations.

MAGNESIA is happy to provide on-site consultation regarding the possible applications of mineral raw materials in powders or effervescent tablets, in tablets or capsules, in bars or liquids, and in other forms of dietary supplements. Whether alternative raw materials for established products or samples for your product development projects – MAGNESIA supports you all the way to the final product.

📍 Booth: 3M109

ROQUETTE is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

At the Vitafoods 2025 in Barcelona, Roquette will highlight the following topics:

ROQUETTE’s full capsule range of vegetal hard capsules, with highlights on its specialized capsules:

1. Nutra’V® Extra Dry (ideal for moisture-sensitive ingredients)
2. Nutra’V® Slow (our delayed-release capsule, perfect for probiotics)
3. Nutra’V® Liquid (designed for low-viscosity liquids)

ROQUETTE’s full range of coatings products, whilst highlighting its pea starch range:

1. ReadiLYCOAT® Plant-Based Film Coating System
2. ReadiLYCOAT® XC Xylitol-Based Sugar-Free Sugar Coating System

LYCAGEL® Flex hydroxypropyl pea starch premix, a plant-based, plasticizer-free premix for veggie softgel capsules, providing the flexibility to select the optimal plasticizer and customize ingredient ratios for both nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications as an alternative to gelatin.
PEARLITOL® PROTEC co-processed mannitol starch, designed for the direct compression of moisture sensitive ingredients such as probiotics and vitamins.

📍 Booth: 4K38

Seppic – An Air Liquide Healthcare company, a subsidiary of the Air Liquide group, Seppic creates, manufactures and markets unique ingredients for products used by consumers, patients and professionals.

Through a committed research and innovation approach, resolutely at the service of its stakeholders, Seppic works every day to put science at the service of everyone: Seppic, science that cares.

Seppic offers nutraceutical ingredients that meet the highest standards of requirements, with a range that includes both active ingredients, with scientifically proven benefits, as well as high-performance excipients and coating agents.

Present in over 100 countries through its affiliates and network of distributors, Seppic employs more than 800 people around the world, including more than 100 employees dedicated to innovation.

Click here to watch Seppic’s introductory video on “SEPIBLISS™ – Sourcing”.

📍 Booth: 3C212

Sigachi Industries Ltd., is a reputed Pharmaceutical excipient and Food ingredient manufacturer and exporter. With over 30 years of experience and three multilocational manufacturing facilities, Sigachi is among the top manufacturers of Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) and cellulose based ingredients.

Its products are available with US DMF, and its units are FSSAI, FSSC 22000, EXCiPACT GMP, SGMP, HACCP, CEP (Certificate of Suitability) from EDQM for MCC and ISO 9001:2015 certified. The facility at Special Economic Zone, Dahej, Gujarat has been built as per USFDA and EDQM norms.

Sigachi’s intensive export activities extends to over 40 countries worldwide, catering to all types of Pharma, Nutra and food industries. Its product range for the food sector includes colloidal grades of MCC, Cellulose Fibre, Cellulose Powder, and All-in-one premix for Cake, Ice cream, Chocolate milk and salad.

At the Vitafoods 2025 in Barcelona, Sigachi will highlight its products Hicel™ SMCC and FloTab® Mannitol SD.