Introducing Clariant’s New Rootness Mood+: the Light Mimicking Skin Tone Equalizer

• New skincare active ingredient reproduces the natural benefits of light to revitalize skin and enhance mood
• Boosts Vitamin D through distribution and receptor activation to increase the skin’s natural radiance
• Sourced from Sanguisorba officinalis, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine
• Derived from environmentally friendly plant milking technology

Clariant Actives & Natural Origins has launched Rootness Mood+, an advanced new skincare active ingredient that takes advantage of the recognized effects of light and concentrates them in an eco-responsible extract.

Natural light provides essential health benefits, from warding off seasonal affective disorder to improving sleep. In regions with low light levels, populations suffer from the winter blues and low mood. Skin disorders are more prevalent compared to regions with higher light levels. Dramatically, around 75% of the worldwide population is deficient in vitamin D due to excessive time spent indoors.

Rootness Mood+ can enhance sunlight benefits, improving mood and equalizing skin tone. It reactivates the skin’s natural radiance and improves skin complexion through the triggering of skin photoreceptors, the opsins, and can also help increase the effect of vitamin D in the skin by upregulating vitamin D downstream pathways.

“Our modern lifestyles make us forget the need to spend time outdoors and this has direct effects on skin appearance. Rootness Mood+ can buffer against the effects of seasonal variations and reduced sun exposure, cosmetically reproducing light’s benefits on the skin, offering a way to improve skin beauty and complexion,” said Julie Droux, Global Technical Marketing Manager for Actives and Natural Origins.

Rootness Mood+ comes from the roots of Sanguisorba officinalis, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine. Commonly known as great burnet, the plant develops ‘at the sight of the sun’. Cultivated in aeroponic conditions, thanks to patented and eco-responsible Plant Milking technology, this special new active ingredient is also highly sustainable.

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Westfalia: Empowerment Through Education

Westfalia Fruit, the leading multinational supplier of avocados and a range of fresh vegetables and fruit, is expanding its industry leading focus on education and wellbeing in Africa, Latin America and beyond.

Education is a powerful tool that changes lives and the world over. The legacy of Westfalia’s iconic founder, Dr. Hans Merensky, is the Foundation he created to provide support for students to study a range of subjects, with a focus on agriculture-related disciplines. In line with its support of the UN’s Global Goals, Westfalia continues to bring this vision to life with programmes run by the company and its partners.

Schooling in South Africa

In the past three years in South Africa, for example, Westfalia has awarded 45 bursaries, welcomed 28 in-service participants and 45 hosted learners, and enrolled more than 100 candidates in apprenticeship and learnership programmes, many of whom were unemployed. 24 individuals completed graduate development programmes and at least six former participants have been promoted to leadership roles within the company.

One candidate, who joined Westfalia as an intern on the Graduate Development Programme is Tshepang Mahloane based in South Africa, Tshepang adds “I benefited significantly from the graduate development programme and was exposed to various other leadership and management courses. It was also helpful to tap into the experience and wisdom of other team members from diverse backgrounds”. Tshepang’s career at Westfalia continues to develop, with his most recent promotion to Factory Manager.

Westfalia also has a focus on empowering people living with disabilities. Ten learners have been enrolled in a program aimed at developing and enhancing their agricultural skills, including plant production leadership. Overall, more than 150 young people have benefitted from work based graduate schemes and internship programmes successfully embarking on careers in fields including medicine, agriculture, education and finance.

Another key initiative is focused on early childhood development. For almost 20 years, centres have been established in both the Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces aimed at creating a safe environment for children while their parents are at work. The positive impact is also a benefit to the local community, with 30% of the children attending from local villages. The centres also help improve local food security and importantly, teach young children English and other foundation skills, giving them a head start once they start school. More than 1,000 children and 600 families have benefitted from the program since 2006. In 2022 the Limpopo centre achieved accreditation to teach the first year primary school syllabus. Over the next few years the education team will be building on that success to offer additional years education. In a remote, agricultural area such as Tzaneen accessible education for the local community and child care is often a challenge.

School age children are also assisted with after school clubs where they have library and internet access, learn to use computers and receive homework help. Counselling services are also available for young people to support their overall wellbeing and career days held for students considering their career choices.

Lifelong learning in Latin America

Westfalia also runs education programs across Latin America to help participants reach their full potential.

In Chile, as part of the ‘Sembrando Futuro – Seeding project’ the company is working with several schools focussing on the environment and education. Projects include the creation of vegetable gardens, composting areas and greenhouses with an emphasis on growing crops responsibly and sustainably.

In both Chile and Colombia, the company supports colleagues who have been unable to complete their school education by supporting them to study over a year, creating more opportunities for them and their families as they are able to develop their employment prospects.

“To this day individuals across the globe continue to benefit from our founder, Dr Merensky’s, strong ethic of ‘giving back’ – the legacy he crafted in making education and development accessible for employees and communities alike. Schools, universities, libraries and charities were among the grateful beneficiaries of his generosity, and we are proud to be continuing this tradition,” said Hans Eben CEO, South America, Westfalia Fruit Group.

For more information visit www.westfaliafruit.com

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New Sidel Agile, Compact Palletising Unit Combines Robotics and Cobotics

Sidel is expanding its palletising range with the introduction of the high performing RoboAccess_Pal S. This new palletising unit, which will be presented at Interpack, combines the best of cobotic and robotic worlds. It provides a uniquely capable solution that delivers improved agility, operability and compactness to the Food, Home, and Personal Care (FHPC) market segments.

With the introduction of cobotics in palletizing, Sidel has been able to answer the growing market demand for very compact and affordable cells, which generally replace manual operations.

For more demanding lines, where robotic arms could offer higher technical performances, Sidel has drawn on its 50-plus years of palletizing expertise to create an all-in-one solution that combines small footprint, fast return on investment and higher case payload and speed.

RoboAccess_Pal S delivers speeds of up to 12 cycles per minute and enables a case payload of up to 25kg while ensuring a fast return on investment, typically of one to two years. The palletising solution offers a new level of compactness with a footprint of less than 12m² for two stations with a significant pallet height of 1700mm.

“We have designed RoboAccess_Pal S to deliver a solution which offers the best of both the robotic and cobotic worlds, addressing the needs of our customers across a wide range of applications and market categories,” said Fabien Chiron, Innovation Manager for Palletising Product Line. “With more than 1,300 robotic palletizing installations worldwide, Sidel has also led the implementation of collaborative robotics since 2011. We have built from this combined expertise to deliver an innovative mixed result as well as additional brand new features.”

Available only in ten weeks, RoboAccess_Pal S is embedding three new patented features to provide an even higher level of agility, operability, and compactness. A light-weighted carbon fibre and 3D-printed clamping head helps deliver higher payload capacity and overall machine footprint reduction while handling a wide range of secondary packaging. Additionally, the patented folding guarding system ensures effortless movable Plug & Play capabilities. Sidel is committed to ensuring a high level of safety standards and a patented mobile physical curtain guarantees the operator’s protection during pallet supply and removal in addition to helping reduce the machine footprint further.

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Guill Brings on Several New Hires in Key Positions

Guill Tool, global leader in extrusion tooling, recently announced the hire of three new employees. Peter Leary is the company’s new Technical Sales Engineer, while Lori Vaz and Diane Whittaker will provide customer service to clients. The announcement was made by Chuck Paull, Chief Marketing Officer, at the company’s West Warwick, Rhode Island headquarters.

Peter Leary is a mechanical engineer who brings over 10 years of application engineering experience from manufacturing, R&D and the medical/pharma industry. In his role as Technical Sales Engineer, Leary provides technical sales support and application advice for Guill Engineering products in the extrusion division. He is also available to make facility visits for consulting, troubleshooting or process improvement.

Diane Whittaker joined the company in December, 2022 as a Customer Service Representative. She supports Guill customers with order entry, order follow up and answering emails. She has worked in manufacturing for over 20 years and, before joining the company, she held several positions including customer service representative, production control lead and QC lead for a manufacturing company in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Lori Vaz became a part of the Guill team in January, 2023 as a Customer Service Representative. Her job duties are the same as Diane’s. She has extensive experience in jewelry manufacturing and 25 years of customer service experience.

Commenting on the new team members, Paull said, “They are a great addition to Guill Tool, bringing with them a wealth of experience that will undoubtedly benefit our customers across the industries we serve.”

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