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Aroma, flavour & food ingredients
What it is
Aroma and fragrance chemicals, flavours, colours, enzymes, gelatin and collagen serve food, beverage, personal care and nutraceutical manufacturers. Food and pharma-grade certification governs who may supply
Raw materials are largely agricultural or animal-derived and therefore volatile
Impact on industries
- Certification and customer qualification limit the supplier set, and ingredients specified into a formulation carry high switching costs
- Clean-label and natural ingredient demand favours producers with botanical and bio-based capability, where India's raw material base is an advantage
- Nutraceutical and animal feed demand adds end-markets growing faster than conventional food processing
- Agri and bio raw material volatility passes into cost unhedged, and global houses hold the highest-value formulation work