Ube Industries to Install Full-scale Marine Fragrance Production System at Its Ube Chemical Plant.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 26, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Ube Industries announced on august 24 that it will set up a system to produce its Heliofresh marine fragrance, at its Ube Chemical plant. The world's first fully synthetic marine fragrance successfully derived from catechol catechol /cat·e·chol/ (kat´ah-kol) 1. catechin. 2. pyrocatechol. cat·e·chol n. See pyrocatechol. , Heliofresh is now used in many popular perfumes as a trendy aroma. Marine fragrance has been produced from safrole saf·role n. A colorless or pale yellow oily liquid, C10H10O2, derived from oil of sassafras and other essential oils and used in making perfume and soap. extracted from sassafras sassafras: see laurel. sassafras North American tree (Sassafras albidum) of the laurel family. The aromatic leaf, bark, and root are used as a flavouring, as a traditional home medicine, and as a tea. trees grown in southern China and Vietnam. However, the supply of safrole has become unstable due to the reduced availability of sassafras trees caused by deforestation. Ube Industries has set out to develop a new process to synthesize the fragrance without using botanical components. Since its introduction, Heliofresh has gained an excellent reputation, and is rapidly poised to replace the natural marine fragrance in the market. The new system will enable Ube Industries to increase its annual production capacity to 500 tons, enough to cover the global demand. The company plans to launch commercial production in fiscal 2007. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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