Sda Biotechnology

Sda Biotechnology, registered as Hunan Shida Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (湖南仕达生物科技有限公司), produces gelatin and collagen products. Its offices are in Yuelu District, Changsha, and its production base is at Xiangxiang, a county-level city in Hunan Province. Chinese listings date the company to 1995 and describe it as founded by a group of established figures in the gelatin trade.

Its gelatin range covers edible, pharmaceutical and capsule grades, split by raw material into bovine hide, bovine bone, pigskin, pig bone, fish skin and fish scale gelatins, and by process into acid-extracted type A and alkali-extracted type B. It also sells gelatin powder and gelatin leaf, and undenatured type II collagen. The collagen peptide range includes hydrolysed collagen, bovine, porcine and fish collagen peptides, collagen tripeptide, oligopeptides and low molecular weight collagen powders.

The company reports four independent production lines and annual capacity of roughly 6,000 tonnes of edible gelatin and 3,000 tonnes of collagen peptide, though published capacity figures vary between sources. It exhibits at CPHI and PMEC in Shenzhen and at Food Ingredients Vietnam.