MARKET
• Micro-encapsulation imprisons very fine solid or liquid particles inside of a membrane.
• It is applied in quite varied fields such as pharmacies, agrochemistry, the food industry,
cosmetics, printing, petrochemistry, textiles...
• With MICROCAP, the priority targeted market is cosmetotextiles.
• The cosmetotextile market is an emerging market in full expansion whose worldwide
sales are estimated at 500 million € in 2013 and where 2/3 are recorded in France, the
leader in this field.
TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION
• MICROCAP’s silicon microcapsules resolve many inconveniences identified in other types
of microcapsules, namely in terms of non-toxicity, but they remain porous, which makes
the encapsulation of volatile products challenging and unreliable, for example.
• MICROCAP gets rid of this bottleneck thanks to its manufacturing process that leads to a
more impermeable silicon membrane.
Competitive ADVANTAGES
• Patent granted.
• Analytical methods associated
• Encapsulation of absorbent and volatile molecules
• High encapsulation yield
• Silicon membrane
• Growing cosmetotextile market (Slimming market)