The Company is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and
fragrances. The Company uses advanced technologies at facilities around the world
to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems,
specialty inks and colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company’s
customers include major international manufacturers representing some of the world’s
best-known brands.
The Company’s principal products include:
flavors, flavor enhancers, ingredients and bionutrients;
fragrances, aroma chemicals and essential oils;
natural ingredients, including dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients;
natural and synthetic food and beverage colors;
cosmetic colors and ingredients; pharmaceutical excipients and ingredients;
and
technical colors, specialty inks and colors, and specialty dyes and pigments.
The Company is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of colors for businesses
worldwide. The Company provides natural and synthetic color systems for use
in foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals; colors and other ingredients for cosmetics,
such as active ingredients, solubilizers and surface treated pigments; pharmaceutical
excipients, such as colors, flavors and coatings; specialty inks; and technical
colors for industrial applications.
The Company believes that it is one of the world’s largest producers
(by sales) of synthetic and natural colors, and that it is the world’s
largest manufacturer (by sales) of certified food colors. The Company sells
its synthetic and natural colors to domestic and international producers of
beverages, bakery products, processed foods, confections, pet foods, cosmetics
and pharmaceuticals. The Company also makes industrial colors, specialty inks
and other dyes and pigments used in a variety of non-food applications.
The Color Group operates principally through the Company’s subsidiary
Sensient Colors LLC. As of December 31, 2016, the Group’s principal manufacturing
plants are located in Missouri, New Jersey, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,
Italy, Mexico, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The Color Group operates under the following trade names:
Sensient Food Colors (food and beverage colors);
Sensient Pharmaceutical Coating Systems (pharmaceutical colors and coatings);
Sensient Cosmetic Technologies (cosmetic colors and ingredients and systems);
Sensient Inks (specialty inks); and
Sensient Industrial Colors (paper colors; and industrial colors for plastics,
leather, wood stains, antifreeze and other uses).
The Company believes that its advanced process technology, state-of-the-art
laboratory facilities and equipment, world class application chemists and a
complete range of synthetic and natural color products constitute the basis
for its market leadership position.
Beginning in the first quarter of 2016, the results of operations for the Company’s
color business in China, South Korea and Japan, which were previously reported
in the Asia Pacific segment, are now reported in the Color segment. All prior
year results have been restated to reflect these changes.
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