Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp.

Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp. produces plant-based functional ingredients and has been in the business for more than 25 years. Its manufacturing site for the Asia Pacific region is at Guilin in Guangxi, with a global innovation centre in Shanghai and overseas arms in Layn USA, Inc. and Layn Europe SRL in Italy.

Sweeteners are the largest part of the range, covering stevia and monk fruit extracts along with the Lovia branded sweetening systems. Beyond sweeteners the company supplies botanical extracts grouped by application: sensory and preservation ingredients for food and beverages, extracts for nutraceuticals, and material for pet and animal nutrition. The single ingredient list runs to standardised extracts such as green tea catechins, grape seed polyphenols, olive leaf hydroxytyrosol, magnolia bark honokiol and magnolol, rosemary rosmarinic and carnosic acids, polygonum cuspidatum resveratrol, sophora japonica quercetin, and jujube, schisandra, rhodiola and bilberry extracts, each specified by marker compound. A United States subsidiary, HempRise, supplies organic and conventional hemp extracts.

The company describes itself as vertically integrated from seed to finished ingredient, controlling planting, extraction and application support in house. Figures given on the site are 170,000 metric tonnes of biomass processed a year, 3.2 million square feet of extraction facilities, 146 patents granted worldwide and 5,300 farming families supported through its sustainability programmes. Application and formulation support is offered through global innovation centres.