Overcome formulation challenges with advanced powder technology

Summary 

• From taste and stability to uniformity and flow, product formulators face challenges that can affect product shelf life and consumer satisfaction.
• Our advanced powder technology tackles six common formulation issues—stability, taste, uniformity, and more—for superior product performance.
• Our expertise goes beyond supplying ingredients—we partner with you to co-develop custom premix solutions optimized for performance, stability, and consumer appeal.

Delivering effective, enjoyable health products is no easy task. From taste and stability to uniformity and flow, product formulators face challenges that can affect product shelf life and consumer satisfaction. How do you create a nutritional product that’s both stable and palatable while ensuring every dose delivers as promised? Not to mention one that tastes amazing!

At dsm-firmenich, we turn these challenges into opportunities. Our advanced powder technology, embedded into our premix solutions, re-engineers ingredients to optimize performance in your formulations. With advanced powder technology, we deliver innovative solutions that tackle common technical issues head-on.

Let’s explore how advanced powder technology can help solve your most complex formulation challenges.

What is advanced powder technology?

Advanced powder technology is the driving force behind our innovative premix solutions. Using cutting-edge technologies like encapsulation, coating, agglomeration, and spray-drying, advanced powder technology enhances the physical and chemical properties of ingredients.

This isn’t just about blending powders—it’s about conditioning and transforming them. Utilizing advanced powder technology within a premix formulation ensures that your custom nutrient premixes are more stable, soluble, and uniform, delivering exceptional performance from the first dose to the last.

Six common premix challenges and how advanced powder technology solves them

1. Stability and oxidation

The challenge: Sensitive ingredients like vitamins and botanicals can degrade due to air, light, heat, or reactive components, reducing potency and shelf life.

The solution: Our premix solutions have advanced coating and encapsulation technologies embedded, which shield ingredients from environmental stress. For example, encapsulated vitamin A maintains potency up to 4x better over 12 months compared to alternatives.¹ This prevents unwanted interactions, like between iron and vitamin C, ensuring stable, visually appealing products.
 

2. Taste and palatability

The challenge: Many active ingredients, such as minerals or plant extracts, have strong, unpleasant flavors that can ruin the consumer experience.

The solution: Our premix solutions have advanced coating and encapsulation to mask undesirable tastes and aromas. This allows higher inclusion rates of functional ingredients in enjoyable formats like gummies and beverages, ensuring your product tastes great without compromising functionality.
 

3. Moisture control

The challenge: Hygroscopic ingredients absorb moisture, causing clumping, poor flow, and decreased shelf life.

The solution: Our premixes contain advanced powder technologies, like special coatings and matrixes, that modify the surface properties of hygroscopic powders, reducing moisture uptake. This enhances flowability and stability, delivering free-flowing blends that perform reliably in production and on the shelf. Additionally, our premix sites have special environmental controls to ensure optimal humidity. 
 

4. Uniformity and mixing

The challenge: Inconsistent blends can result in uneven dosing, making accurate label claims difficult to achieve.

The solution: Our premixes are embedded with powerful trituration and micronization technology to create uniform mixtures, eliminating segregation and ensuring accurate dosing. By reducing overages by up to 10%², we help you achieve precise, compliant formulations while maintaining optimal uniformity.
 

5. Solubility and dilution

The challenge: Poor solubility in ready-to-mix (RTM) and ready-to-drink (RTD) nutritional products can lead to gritty textures and sediment.

The solution: Our nutritional premixes for beverages contain powerful advanced powder technologies like agglomeration and milling/micronization to help improve dispersibility and solubility. This ensures smooth, consistent textures in beverages for a better consumer experience.
 

6. Compression and flowability

The challenge: Poor powder flow can cause issues in tablet manufacturing, including inconsistent weights and hardness.

The solution: Our premixes are embedded with advanced powder technology, like proprietary granulation and particle enhancements, that optimizes particle size, shape, and density for excellent flowability and compressibility. Encapsulation stabilizes liquid actives, preventing leaks during compression and ensuring uniform, shelf-stable, and visually appealing tablets.

Build better nutritional products with advanced powder technology

Formulation challenges shouldn’t hold back your innovation. With dsm-firmenich’s advanced powder technology, you can overcome hurdles and unlock your product’s full potential.

Our expertise goes beyond supplying ingredients—we partner with you to co-develop custom premix solutions optimized for performance, stability, and consumer appeal.