Natural Products at the Forefront

In every field of endeavor, some companies seem to rise effortlessly to the top while others fade into anonymity. Many factors have to be analyzed in other to better understand what it takes to become a success. Alban Muller international is an example of how an idea, one man's vision would change an industry.
Fast changes in the economy and a need for quality natural ingredients, prompted the birth of Alban Muller International and years later, "Le Natural Product Designer."
It did not happen by chance. It happened through the evolution of a company.
The evolution began when they entered the French cosmetic market at a time when there was a lot of competition for ingredients: imagination was needed to develop innovative quality raw materials; you needed to be different in your approach, combining scientific studies for the efficacy and creating new subjective worlds for the marketing side.
Then, the applications laboratory designed a cosmetic formulation with these extracts, and one day, a customer asked them to manufacture.
Recognition arises from this work and the pharmaceutical companies were soon after asking for standardized extracts and analytical methods.
In order to satisfy the demands they expand into the food and health food markets and increase production and capacity. They have two factories and 120 people employees.
This is nearly 25 years of evolution for small French Company, Alban Muller International.
So what can "Le Natural Product Designer" do for you?
They provide you with "concepts creation" and turn your ideas into reality.
What is a concept? A "good" story. A story that becomes a formula that becomes a successful product. This is what customers buy, the "concept" wrapped in the story and backed by high quality formulations, achieved with the best natural ingredients available on the market.
It could be the Edelweiss, a unique and special flower growing on the summits of the Alps and cultivated to participate in a whole range. Specially created for one of the best mountain spas in the world, located in Megève.
It may be a range based on an exclusive "potimarron," a kind of pumpkin produced by the European Centre for the Conservation of Forgotten Species, which will make clients' skin soft and radiant.
There are many options: it could be to design a specific extract to match certain cosmetic requirements. Let us say you are a large cosmetic company and you wish to obtain an exclusive extract that nobody has accesss two.
There are two possible ways to achieve this: you sponsor an ethno-botanical mission to Central Africa where you have met the local guru who told you what plant to use and you have "the plant" available. But you need to extract its actives, analyze them and make sure you will have an industrial source of supply. Alban Muller International can do that for you.
If you haven't sponsored any such mission, it may be that they already have what you are looking for. If you are not satisfied with the 750 plants they currently process, they can give you access to numerous different sources of exotic actives. You may be a distribution net or a sales and marketing organization and would like to have products made to match your marketing ideas. Alban Muller International will discuss the project with you, make proposals, prototypes and, once they suit your needs, you can have them produced at their French facilities located in the "Cosmetic Valley." They can be produced and delivered in bulk to you for local packing.
If you are a pharmaceutical company, you may wish to secure a good source of supply for standardized plant extracts. Alban Muller has this capability as well. However, you may not have the experts in house to produce the legal files required by the authorities. Alban Muller International can help you do that too.
You may be a nutraceutic or a food company: you need some sound advice as to the promotion of a new plant in your next beverage. Again, Alban Muller International can help.
Created in 1978, the Groupe Alban Muller consists of different companies established in France:
Alban Muller International is the "selling arm" of the Groupe Alban Muller. It is located in Vincennes, a suburb of Paris. Alban Muller Industry is dedicated to laboratory work and to the production of raw materials for the cosmetic industry in Montreuil, near Vincennes;
Adonis is dedicated to the production of raw materials for the pharmaceutical and food industries and in the production of finished cosmetics. It is located near Chartres, in the heart of the French Cosmetic Valley.
Each company has a force of 25 to 35 people: the total in the group amounts to 120 people.
The main characteristic of the group is an important concentration of PhDs (about a dozen) and of trained technicians.
Covering 45 countries with distributors, Alban Muller International has become a global supplier. Today Alban Muller International is synonymous with quality. Its innovative approach to the development of natural products has become a worldwide reference in terms of quality and creativity.