Since commencement of operations in 1979, our passion and philosophy has helped us to provide an unrivalled range of products and services that are innovative yet affordable. Our personal touch and attention to each transaction adds true value that brings about a positive impact on our customer’s growth and prosperity. We understand that each customer has a unique requirement.
Our dynamic team of professionals with extensive experience, in-depth knowledge and strong understanding of the various applications across business domains enable us to efficiently serve every diverse requirement we come across.
Our Journey
Kolenchery, a small town in the suburb of Kochi city in Kerala, with proximity to the national highway and a major seaport was chosen as the manufacturing hub for Plant Lipids, and thus, the first seeds are sown for a journey into the world of Natural Extracts, for the flavour and fragrance industry. Our production line started here with distillation of spices.
As demand from West for Natural Spice extracts surged, multiple batch plants for Solvent Extraction are commissioned. Extracts of Cocoa, Vanilla, Ginger, and Pepper from Plant Lipids’ house set the benchmark in quality.
The demand for Plant Lipids’ high colour Paprika in the global market propels commissioning of a 24×7 Continuous Plant and establishment of our 1st manufacturing hub outside Kerala, in Bengaluru, to leverage the availability of High Colour Paprika and local produce like Davana.
With Guntur, Khammam and Warangal regions in Andhra Pradesh becoming largest producers of high pungent chillies, our 3rd manufacturing hub with a dedicated facility for Capsicum comes up at Hyderabad.
Our foray into Fragrance market takes shape and Aromatics Ingredients Division is established for producing fragrance ingredients and processing Mediterranean herbs. This facility now processes natural raw materials from over 35 countries.
Sustainability is something we started from very early days when we started working with the chilli farmers of Guntur. As part of this program for developing the community around us, we moved into renewable energy and Plant Lipids commenced the first of many Windmill projects in Tamilnadu, India.
Customer’s demand for high-quality ‘whole/crushed/ground spices’ from the house of Plant Lipids spawns the creation of a dedicated facility to produce treated Spices. This also triggered the IPM program for Chilli and today we are one of the largest IPM Chilli producers in the world.
To support West’s blossoming Food ingredients ecosystem, our first overseas office and warehouse come up in Dortmund, Germany. This facility has been subsequently moved to Bremen and now has the capability to offer customized product solutions for our European customers.
As the Asian market warms up to the high-value spice extracts originating from India, we expanded our operations into another spice kingdom, Thailand.
Aurea Biolabs, our research-based Nutraceutical product development company offering science backed natural products started in Kochi. Products with functional benefits focused on wellness and good health and tested clinically for efficacy is the story behind every product from this stable
The growing trend towards natural colours and our strong backward integration helped us to offer our customers services, to move closer to the clean label food business. We launched our overseas Sales office, Blending Unit and R&D Centre in the UK focused on the Natural Colours.
Our faith in renewable energy continued to grow as we scaled up our initiative by launching our Solar Project in Telangana, India. This is now powering almost 30% of our entire Telangana facility.
FF Bioworks, a joint venture with agri-farming specialists established in Hubli, Karnataka to add power to our backward integration projects. 2000 Acres of Marigold farming paved way for initiating farming of other spices and herbs. Our move towards vertical integration of critical raw material is powered by this engine.
With the launch of our office in Indonesia, we started catering to one of the largest groups of food consumers in Asia.
Commissioning our state-of-the-art Super Critical CO2 extraction plant helped us to move our business in the clean label category. This is also powering our knowledge in this category and our drive to making better consumer products.
Our 5th manufacturing hub outside Kerala focussed on Garlic Oil distillation came up in Hubli. Captive farming of high-yield Garlic is being expanded to 500 acres making this project completely traceable and sustainable.
The Trace India Project achieves a milestone as we added 2500th farmer family to our sustainability program guaranteeing a steady income path for a sustainable partnership. These farmers are involved in growing Chillies, Cumin, Turmeric, lemongrass, Marigold, Rosemary, garlic, other spices, and herbs.
Plant Lipids embraces this opportunity to reduce dependency on non-renewable sources and improve its carbon footprint.
Today, we are one of the largest producers of spice extracts, essential oils and natural food colours in the world. With a product portfolio ranging from oleoresins, essential oils, natural food colours, specialty extracts, micro- encapsulated products, whole and ground sterilised spices, we supply more than 500 products to over 80 countries worldwide.
Sustainable development has always been our choice. Plant Lipids has been working closely with farming communities in sustainable models for community and social development, ensuring farm to fork traceability. We’ve also made good ground in renewable energy and have been recognised in India for good environmental practices.
Crops we cover under Sustainability: Turmeric, Ginger, Black Pepper, Red Beet & Black Carrot, Marigold, Red Chillies, Garlic, Lemongrass, Davana
Know MoreOur manufacturing facilities comply with ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005, Spice House certification, Kosher, Halal etc. The state of the art lab is accredited by NABL (ISO 17025:2005). Strict adherence to quality across processes and consistent upgradation of technology makes Plant Lipids one of the most preferred names in the flavours and fragrance industry.
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