Food manufacturers face further price rises for ingredients as the
world's largest producer of carrageenan, FMC BioPolymer, announces
a global 7 percent step-up in price for its carrageenan and
food/specialty grade microcrystalline...
FMC BioPolymer, an operating unit of chemical company FMC
Corporation, will expand microcrystalline cellulose (MCC)
production to meet growing demands from the food industry,
particularly for low fat products.
Philadelphia based FMC BioPolymer the number one supplier of
food-grade carrageenan will raise prices for this gum by up to 8
percent as raw material costs cut into margins, suggesting that
cheaper alternatives, such as the semi-refined...
US polymer producer FMC BioPolymer announced this week that it has
acquired Norway-based Pronova Biomedical AS, a supplier of
ultra-pure alginates and chitosans to the pharmaceutical and
medical materials markets, from a subsidiary...