SCHUTZEN Chemical Group Appoints “Azelis as Preferred Distributor for Personal Care & Paint Coating" Markets in India

SCHUTZEN Chemical Group, the leading diversified specialty chemical manufacturer has announced the appointment of Azelis, a leading global distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients as the preferred distributor for its Personal Care & Paint Coating Markets in India.  

Azelis will focus on the distribution of two innovative actives from Schutzen: 

The Tamarind based active for Hair & Skin Care 

The Anti-Viral, Anti-Microbial, Anti-fungal active which is safe and free of hazardous chemistries 

 SCHUTZEN Chemical Group has developed an innovative Hair & Skin Conditioning Product which is derived from Tamarindus indicia Seed polysaccharide, a more sustainable option compared to ubiquitous chemistries like Polyquaternium -10 & Cationic Guar Gum. 

Further as a rapid response to the COVID-19 crisis, SCHUTZEN Chemical Group was quick to develop & deploy a very safe Anti-Viral, Anti-Microbial & Anti-Mite active for Home & Personal Care markets and Paint Coating market. The Biocide is an active which is free of hazardous chemistries and aligns with SCHUTZEN’s sustainability objectives. 

Raj Mahendra Tanna, Founder & Director, SCHUTZEN Chemical Group said, "We are proud that we could quickly adapt to the COVID-19 crisis & rapidly respond with the launch of one of the safest Virucidal, Microbicidal & Fungicidal actives. The active will further serve as a major contributor in the hygiene market post COVID-19. We are equally excited to launch our unique Hair & Skin conditioning active based on Tamarindus Indica Seed polysaccharide through our patented process. This presents to be a game changer in terms of sustainability & performance in the personal care market.” 

He further added, “Azelis’ market presence, formulation development capabitlities and customer centric approach proved crucial in our decision to chose them as a partner. We sensed Azelis to be a very supportive & humble organization. They exhibit a genuine focus on solving challenging customer problems. We are confident that Azelis India will make an excellent partner and significantly add to our growth & brand equity.” 

Commenting on the partnership, Mrs. Aparna Khurana, Managing Director Azelis India comments: “Schutzen offers highly innovative products in line with the market demand for our key markets of Personal Care and CASE. Their new launch, the Anti-Viral, Anti-Microbial, Anti-Fungal active, a clean and safe hygiene solution, is a great demonstration of their adaptability to the market demand, making their portfolio continually attractive. We are delighted about this partnership as it offers new product development opportunities for our customers. Azelis will do its utmost to boost Schutzen’s penetration across India and grow the number of customers in CASE and Personal Care.”  

SCHUTZEN has chosen Azelis India as one of its key distributors thanks to its strong market presence, formulation development capabilities and support towards all spectrum of customers. This distribution agreement enables the Group to optimize its distribution network. Both companies share a strong focus on innovation and technical service to customers based on expert knowledge & business support, sustainability, transparency, and constructive collaboration.  

SCHUTZEN is very determined to bring around sustainable solutions to difficult areas in the industry. 

 

Quick, Healthy and Delicious—Cure.Fit’s New Ready-to-Eat Product Range Launched

Ready-to-Eat Products

* The products will be available for online ordering in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi

* They have a shelf life of 12 months and contain no chemical preservatives, artificial additives

or trans fat

India’s leading integrated health and wellness platform, cure.fit, announces the launch of its Ready-to-Eat products under its healthy food delivery vertical—eat.fit. This range of products includes an offering of healthy easy-to-prepare food options that are 100% safe and free of chemicals, highly affordable and most importantly, delicious and authentic in taste.

The Ready-to-Eat products, priced between Rs. 100 to Rs. 150, are available for ordering in Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad via the cure.fit app or on Swiggy and Zomato. While currently the two variants being launched are Rajma Masala and Dal Makhani, eat.fit plans to expand its range in the next six to nine months to include around 13 varieties.

In fulfillment of its promise to always maintain a high bar on health, these products are free of chemical preservatives, artificial colours or flavours, and trans fat. The ambient nature of the products coupled with a long shelf life of 12 months make them easy to store and stock as well. Retort technology, which is used to manufacture them, ensures that the ingredients do not lose their freshness.

These products have been manufactured in conjunction with Tasty Bites—one of the pioneers in the ready-to-eat category who have also been credited with launching it in 1987 in India. Our products are being made in their state-of-the-art factory in Pune from where they are shipped to other eat.fit locations and have been developed using their rich expertise and insights coupled with an active feedback seeking mechanism we have with our customers.

Speaking on the launch of this new offering, Ankit Nagori, co-founder, cure.fit, said: “Today convenience is highly prized as people are hard pressed for time. However, it is also important to never compromise on the food we consume. As a consumer-first health brand, eat.fit seeks to constantly develop new offerings that are not only healthy and convenient for our customers but are also packed with flavour. Our Ready-to-Eat products are specifically designed to deliver on this. With this range of food, we hope to gain greater acceptance and household penetration, especially at a time when home-cooking is at the forefront.”

About Cure.fit 

cure.fit Healthcare Pvt Ltd is a holistic integrated healthcare platform headquartered in Bangalore. Founded in 2016 by Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori, cure.fit aims to address preventive healthcare through a combination of engagement, coaching and delivery using a mix of online and offline channels. cure.fit caters to living a healthy life through four critical dimensions- eat.fit, mind.fit, cult.fit and care.fit. While cult.fit focuses on physical strength and fitness, eat.fit focuses on healthy and nutritive food, mind.fit on mental wellbeing and care.fit on integrated medical and lifestyle care.

cure.fit is an app based service provider and is available on Android and iOS.

Will nanotechnology transform information technology?

The nanotechnology industry is heralding a new world order and is estimated to grow over $1 trillion by 2015. Since it is distinguished by its interdisciplinary nature, can nanotechnology revolutionize information technology?

Even though it has already bringing in radical changes in the fields of healthcare, textile, paint, rubber, automobile industries, but lately also seeing advances on the IT front.

Talking to CXOtoday, Ashok Kumar Manoli, principal secretary IT, BT & Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka said, “without doubt, nanotechnology is making rapid advances in the IT industry since IT is one of the defining features of today’s world. Nano has made advances in IT even if it is not directly related.”

Recently, IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing.

IBM researchers have outlined how transistors made of carbon nanotubes -- long, thin strands of carbon molecules -- delivered more than twice the amount of electrical current at a faster rate than cutting-edge transistors made from silicon and metal, the basis for chips today.

Likewise, Samsung, world’s leading electronics major has added carbon nanotubes to LCD tellies. Reports indicate that Samsung has been showing off its technology, which uses carbon nanotubes to drop the cost and increase the performance of LCD screens.

According to Masum Khan, product manager of Tesscorn, a leading company in customized equipments for nano research said, “Samsung research institutes have developed a 15-inch prototype LCD screen that employs an array of carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes are used instead of conventional light sources, such as bulbs or light-emitting diodes.”

Khan said that telly technologies would lower the cost of LCD TVs in the coming years.

Nanotech in consumer electronics

Nanotube TV technology has been around for a while and has much in common with traditional cathode-ray sets. The downside is that they need new production lines and would be more expensive than LCDs and Plasma screens.

However, if they are used alongside LCDs they could be used to cut the cost the backlight of LCD TVs. The backlight makes up half the cost of a 40-inch LCD. Samsung said that the partial use of nanotubes could lower energy consumption and improve picture quality. An LCD takes 15 milliseconds to render a picture, while an LCD with carbon nanotubes as a backlight just four milliseconds.

Technologists now want to create an LCD with a carbon backlight that lasts 30,000 hours and puts out 60 to 70 lumens per watt.

The other advances in nanotechnology is the “Nanosilver” technology used in almost all consumer appliances like washing machines, refrigerators where in the nanosilver technology helps fighting bacteria so food remains fresh for longer. Khan said a number of products are already coming out in the market.

Car changes color as per outside climate

On the automobile front, nanotechnology is used to develop a paint that can change color depending on the outside weather. This is possible when a small change in done “nanovoltage” to the paints resulting in change of color. “A number of automobile manufacturers have already expressed interest in the technology but this is still in research stage,” adds Khan.

Nano materials in tyres

Likewise, rubber when mixed with nano materials tends to have longer life than the normal tyres and also less on the wear and tear.


Light bullet proof garments

On the textile front, we already seen garments that are stain resistant and wrinkle free but now armed forces will use garments made of carbon material that are very light and even bullet proof. These garments are also anti-bacterial that can be worn for a number of days.