NATECO2

NATECO2 is your expert in gentle and solvent-free extraction of natural substances for the food & beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry, via CO2.

We are your partner within the CO2-extraction and supercritical CO2-technology branch.

Nature's diversity has been our inspiration and motivation for sustainable innovations - since 1962!

NATECO2 is a brand of Hopfenveredlung St. Johann GmbH.

Our shareholders are market leaders and trendsetters in the hops market.

At our location in Wolnzach, we today process up to 20,000 tons of different raw materials per annum, operate worldwide and are the largest provider of CO2-contract extraction services.

We have the experts for gentle carbon dioxide contract extraction of your precious raw materials and qualified contact persons for research, consultancy, analytics, product handling and global distribution.

Besides extraction, we possess a wide range of alternative CO2-techniques, for development of novel processes and products, available in our in-house research center.

Our in-house analytics laboratory offers comprehensive equipment and validated analysis methods, in order to meet daily requirements concerning product quality and process reliability. It also serves as a contract laboratory, providing extensive analytical services to external parties.

We offer our customers:

• enormous know-how within the scCO2-technology industry

• large capacities, due to our differently sized extraction plants

• unique flexibility of process parameters, due to our machine design

• state-of-the-art laboratory for quality assurance and method development

• a research center, equipped with the latest CO2-technologies

• development and production of tailor-made essences and raffinates

• establishment of economical and scalable processes

• savings on high investment costs, due to contract extraction

• consultancy & engineering services with regards to of scCO2-extraction units

• a vast service range - your single-source provider

OUR MAIN SERVICES:

Contract Extraction via supercritical CO2 (SFE)

Research & Development

Analytical Laboratory

Use of Biogenic CO2

Purification

Powder Technology / Particle Generation (via supercritical CO2)

Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) / Counter-Current Column

Product Handling (Preparation & Finishing)

Service Concept / NATECO2 plus

Consultancy