{"id":16870,"date":"2023-09-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xd3kj9bvqee.preview.infomaniak.website\/?p=16870"},"modified":"2023-09-27T00:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T22:37:55","slug":"loreal-investing-in-shinehigh-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/loreal-investing-in-shinehigh-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"L'Or\u00e9al invests in Shinehigh Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L'Or\u00e9al announces a minority investment agreement in Shinehigh Innovation, a Chinese biotechnology company dedicated to innovation. The aim of both companies is to establish a long-term partnership to co-develop innovative and sustainable beauty solutions. This is the very first investment by<em>open innovation<\/em> by L'Or\u00e9al in China, via its Shanghai Meicifang Investment Co, Ltd (Meicifang) fund, supported by Bold (<em>Business Opportunities for L'Or\u00e9al Development<\/em>), the group's venture capital fund for strategic innovation. It is also the first investment in connection with the Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Challenge, launched by L'Or\u00e9al four years ago in China, thus confirming the success of our local ecosystem of<em>open innovation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2017 by renowned scientist Professor Jiaheng Zhang, Shinehigh Innovation is a Chinese start-up specializing in cutting-edge supramolecular chemistry. Its intelligent molecule self-assembly technology enables previously impossible combinations of ingredients, resulting in even more effective and longer-lasting finished products to serve our consumers.&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"indus-dans-articles indus-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;display: flex;justify-content: center;\" id=\"indus-3486045949\"><div class=\"indus-adlabel\">Advertising<\/div><div id=\"indus-3087343969\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/ad\/24744\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Promotional graphic for Siemens&quot; &quot;The Beauty Thread&quot; videocast series, with French text about faster formulation and better control thanks to enterprise recipe management. Launch in April 2026, with a blue &quot;Discover Episode 1&quot; button. Abstract background.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200.jpg\" alt=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Promotional graphic for Siemens&quot; &quot;The Beauty Thread&quot; videocast series, with French text about faster formulation and better control thanks to enterprise recipe management. Launch in April 2026, with a blue &quot;Discover Episode 1&quot; button. Abstract background.\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-1068x1068.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This partnership will enable L'Or\u00e9al to unleash the full potential of raw materials, overcoming known limitations such as incompatibility, instability and diffusion, and develop innovative formulations with expanded properties for skin, hair and scalp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Lavernos, L'Or\u00e9al Group Executive Vice President, Research, Innovation and Technology, said: <em>\"China's unique and highly dynamic start-up ecosystem is a particularly important catalyst for L'Or\u00e9al's future innovation strategy. We are therefore extremely enthusiastic about pursuing this new investment and partnership with Shinehigh, one of China's most innovative biotech start-ups. This collaboration with the world leader in supramolecular technology applied to the cosmetics industry will enable us to bring revolutionary performance products to market. We are delighted to enter into this exclusive beauty partnership with the Shinehigh team.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fabrice Megarbane, Managing Director, North Asia Zone and L'Or\u00e9al China, said: <em>\"We are very confident about the long-term future of the Chinese market. After 25 years of development, China has become our source of inspiration for the future of innovation. Firmly convinced of the potential of co-creation, we launched Big Bang four years ago and founded Meicifang, L'Or\u00e9al China's investment company, last year. I'm delighted to see that all our efforts have paid off today: investing in Shinehigh Innovation, winner of the 2022 edition of Big Bang. Today, Big Bang is expanding to North Asia, and we look forward to inventing the future of beauty in the North Asian and global markets with many other partners.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jiaheng Zhang, founder and CEO of Shinehigh Innovation, said: \"<em> I'm delighted to be working with the L'Or\u00e9al group, a world leader in the beauty industry. We have jointly conducted research into the supramolecular development of multiple active raw materials, in skin care, make-up, hair care and coloring. This latest research is crucial to the emergence and industrialization of cutting-edge supramolecular technology. Our ambition is to explore new possibilities in the research, development and application of raw materials, and to develop them together on the market.\"<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&rsquo;Or\u00e9al annonce un accord d&rsquo;investissement minoritaire dans Shinehigh Innovation, une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 chinoise de biotechnologie d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 l&rsquo;innovation. L&rsquo;objectif des deux entreprises est d&rsquo;\u00e9tablir un partenariat \u00e0 long terme pour co-d\u00e9velopper des solutions de beaut\u00e9 innovantes et durables. Il s&rsquo;agit du tout premier investissement d&rsquo;open innovation r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par L&rsquo;Or\u00e9al en Chine, via son fonds Shanghai Meicifang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":16871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"external_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-16870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ingredients","8":"tag-info-marche"},"acf":{"nc":"corporatemediarelations@loreal-group.com","nc2":"brune.diricq@loreal.com","nc3":"arnaud.fraboul@loreal.com","nc4":"christine.burke@loreal.com","nc5":"","nom_url":"Site internet","lien_url":"https:\/\/www.loreal.com"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}