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<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nMicrophyt, created in 2007 and located in Baillargues (H\u00e9rault), has developed a revolutionary low carbon impact process for the production of microalgae - microscopic plant organisms used in cosmetics for their active properties and functional qualities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks to its patented process and its mastery of natural stimuli (light, salt, nutrients, temperature variation, etc.), this French biotech is among the companies producing the largest varieties of microalgae in the world on a large scale and in a controlled manner. Microphyt has an integrated platform for the transformation of these microalgae and thus develops natural and renewable ingredients perfectly adapted to the sustainable ambitions of L'Or\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L'Or\u00e9al and Microphyt will build a technological platform and will pool material and human resources to design raw materials from microalgae biomass. The two companies aim to establish a long-term partnership for the development of new cosmetic solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This merger follows a number of strategic scientific partnerships that the Group has forged in recent months to strengthen its pioneering Green Beauty Sciences ecosystem: the life sciences research specialist VERILY, the National Institute for Materials Sciences (NIMS) in Japan, the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), and the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polym\u00e8res Organiques de Bordeaux (LCPO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\u00a0Our ambition is to collaborate worldwide with the most disruptive scientific entities in the field of Green Sciences, in order to develop together responsible innovations on a large scale and make them accessible to the greatest number of people<\/em>explains Barbara Lavernos, Executive Vice President, Research, Innovation and Technology, L'Or\u00e9al Groupe. We are very pleased with this new partnership with Microphyt, which will allow us, thanks to its unique natural solutions derived from microalgae, to further accelerate our transformation towards a more sustainable beauty\".<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nFor Microphyt, the partnership with L'Or\u00e9al reinforces its strategic roadmap. Since the realization in 2019 of one of the most important fundraising of its sector with notably the SPI funds of Bpifrance and Sofinnova Partners, Microphyt has strongly accelerated the development and the marketing of natural ingredients from microalgae for nutrition and cosmetics. In the last 18 months, Microphyt has launched 3 innovative active ingredients in cosmetics and has started the commercialization of its first two proprietary ingredients in nutrition on the American market of food supplements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\"We are delighted with the partnership with L'Or\u00e9al which is fully in line with Microphyt's ambition to give access to the greatest number of people to natural solutions derived from microalgae, <\/em>explains Vincent Usache, General Manager of Microphyt. The \"extended lab\" technology platform is perfectly complementary to our own activities. It will enable us to accelerate the development of eco-designed ingredients in common with L'Or\u00e9al and to use our production capacities to facilitate their scaling up within our industrial platform.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L’Or\u00e9al et la biotech fran\u00e7aise Microphyt annoncent un partenariat strat\u00e9gique selon lequel le fonds de capital investissement de L’Or\u00e9al BOLD (Business Opportunities for L’Or\u00e9al Development) acquiert une participation minoritaire dans Microphyt. Cette op\u00e9ration s’inscrit pleinement dans la strat\u00e9gie de la Recherche & Innovation de L’Or\u00e9al dans le domaine des Sciences Vertes, au travers de nombreux […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":13943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"external_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-13941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-instrumentation","8":"tag-info-marche"},"acf":{"nom_url":"Site internet","lien_url":"https:\/\/www.loreal-paris.fr\/","nc":"christine.burke@loreal.com","nc2":"brune.diricq@loreal.com","nc3":"noelle.camilleri@loreal.com","nc4":"fabienne@ab3c.com","nc5":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}