Do you want to learn more about products? Get in touch.
Nutrinova pioneered the manufacturing and commercialization of the sweetener Acesulfame K and the preservatives Potassium Sorbate and Sorbic Acid while constantly following the highest standards and delivering premium quality products.
Nutrinova is a joint venture of Mitsui & Co. and Celanese Corporation with a 50-year history of production and global distribution of sweetening and preservation solutions.
In 1967, at Hoechst AG in Frankfurt, a groundbreaking discovery unfolded. Karl Clauss, amidst a daring experiment with two very reactive compounds, inadvertently encountered a sweet revelation. While investigating new chemical pathways, Clauss casually wiped powdery white residues from his sweater, only to discover an unexpected sweetness on his fingertip.
This serendipitous moment marked the genesis of Acesulfame K, a pioneering sweetening agent that’s 200x sweeter than sugar. Collaborating with Harald Jensen, Clauss meticulously explored this new class of compounds, ultimately singling out Acesulfame K as the most powerful for not only its sweetness, but more importantly, its purity of taste and robust solubility.
Today, Acesulfame K stands as a cornerstone in sweetening technology, embraced globally for its reliability and versatility across diverse applications, from laboratories to consumer products.
Isolation of Sorbic Acid from the berries of the mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia Linné) by A. Hoffman
Sorbic Acid production in a pilot plant
Acesulfame K discovered in Hoechst AG. Production of Sorbates begins in Frankfurt Germany
Expansion of Sorbates plant by 200% to accommodate increasing demand
Acesulfame K first approved for use (UK) following completion of over 90 safety studies carried out over the past decade.
Nutrinova introduces the Multisweetener concept demonstrating how multiple sweeteners can be leveraged to achieve better tasting products with reduced cost and improved stability
First 1,000 tonnes of Sunett® sold.
In the demerger of Hoechst and Celanese, the Nutrinova Food Ingredients business is transferred to Celanese.
Further increases of Sorbate plant. US FDA grants Sunett approval for liquid beverages in the US opening the door for great tasting diet beverages
Sunett® is approved in over 100 countries
Installation of recycling process to avoid waste in Sunett® plant
Nutrinova, a Joint Venture of Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and Celanese Corporation formed.
.
Customer-focused technical support solutions
World-class manufactured products
Up-to-date industry and consumer insights
Regulatory guidance and support
We use cookies to tell us whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor. It also helps us enhance your online experience while you are visiting our Website. By clicking ‘accept cookies’ you accept the cookies specified in our Cookie Policy.
This is the Cookie Policy for this website. To learn more about how we process your personal data when you visit our website or communicate with Nutrinova, please refer to our Privacy Statement.
1. What are Cookies?
To offer you better service when visiting a website most sites use cookies; practical technologies that collect and use information, making websites easier to use. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit our website. During your visit, the cookie sends data to Nutrinova.
2. What do they do?
We use cookies to tell us whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor. It also helps us enhance your online experience while you are visiting our Website.
3. Consent to the use of cookies on our site
When you visit our website, a window pops up on your screen about the placement of cookies on your computer's hard drive.
The message that appears briefly explains you our cookie policy. By clicking ‘accept cookies’ you accept the cookies specified in this Cookie Policy. If you don’t want any cookies to be placed except for the strictly necessary ones, you can click on the ‘reject all’ button. You can also click on ‘cookies settings’ to set up your preference for cookies.
4. Types of cookies we may use and what they are used for
On our website we use different types of cookies. Below you will find an overview of the type of cookies that may be used.
5. Controlling and disabling cookies
You can opt out of cookies by setting your Internet browser so that it no longer stores cookies. In addition, you can delete any information previously stored via your browser settings.
If you do not wish to receive any cookies at all, including those cookies which are necessary to provide our website to you, you may set your browser to disable cookies all together. Disabling cookies may affect your overall user experience on our website (e.g., you may not be able to visit certain areas of the website). If you use different devices to view and access the Nutrinova website you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is properly adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.