Contract R&D Service
From plant to ingredient — turnkey supercritical CO₂ service
Apolaire is a French R&D provider that develops your natural ingredients through supercritical CO₂ extraction. We work from your raw material to a documented, characterized, and industrializable ingredient — for perfumery, cosmetics, and food flavoring. First exploitable result in less than 3 months. Reply within 24–48h.
Six steps from plant to ingredient
- 01 Discovery meeting · 30 min
Needs assessment
Understanding your context, your plant material, your goals, and technical or regulatory constraints.
- 02 Feasibility
Raw material analysis
Study of the provided plant, co-product, or vegetable waste. Evaluation of its extractive potential.
- 03 R&D phase
Extraction plan setup
Definition of the supercritical CO₂ protocol, optimization of pressure and temperature parameters, documented pilot trials.
- 04 Analysis & qualification
Characterization and usage guidance
Result analysis: sensory profile, analytical composition (GC-MS), functional or active potential.
- 05 Deliverables
Technical and economic report
Delivery of a full dossier: observations, optimized recipe, economic study, usage recommendations.
- 06 Scale-up
Industrialization preparation
Parameter transfer, documentation for scaling up, and support toward industrial production.