Viablife

Hangzhou Viablife Biotech Co., Ltd. (杭州唯铂莱生物科技有限公司) was registered on 3 November 2015 and is based at 202 Zhenzhong Road in the Xihu District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It was started by Zhan Jixun, a tenured professor of biological engineering at Utah State University, and registered capital stands at 20 million yuan. Recruitment listings place headcount in the 100 to 499 range. Manufacturing is carried out through an affiliated plant in Jiangxi Province.

Viablife works in synthetic biology, building production strains and enzyme routes rather than extracting from plant material. It combines genetic, enzyme, metabolic and fermentation engineering on a platform it calls Viablife Biolego.

Ingredients it lists with the China Food Additives and Ingredients Association include hydroxytyrosol, GABA, inositol, creatine, allulose, D-tagatose and rebaudioside M. Its wider catalogue extends to caffeic acid, ceramides, nicotinamide, squalene, squalane and alpha-arbutin, sold into food, supplement and cosmetic formulation. The company is a CFAA member and exhibits at the spring FIC fair.