Sabinsa Corporation is celebrating 20 years of supplying science backed, high-quality herbal extracts, cosmeceuticals, minerals and specialty fine chemicals to the natural products industry by inviting SupplySide West attendees to join them for cake and champagne on Thursday, October 23 and Friday, October 24 from 12 – 2 p.m. at Sabinsa’s booth #21051. Sabinsa was founded in 1988 by Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. and now currently has offices and manufacturing facilities in seven countries.
“Much of Sabinsa’s success over the past 20 years can be attributed to our commitment to bringing innova- tive, efficacious ingredients to market, and doing so with the most strict attention to quality and purity stan- dards,” stated Majeed. “We recently expanded our offerings to include full-service contract manufacturing capabilities to meet the growing needs of our clients and will continue to maintain our dedication to having quality systems, facilities and staff in place to provide outstanding service for the next 20 years.”
Below are some of Sabinsa’s significant milestones and achievements:
- 1988: Sabinsa Corporation is founded by Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D., incorporated in the state of New Jersey
- 1991: Sami Chemicals & Extracts (later renamed as Sami Labs) is set-up in Bangalore, India
- 1993: Sabinsa’s first manufacturing plant is operational in India
- 1996: First patent for BioPerine,a standardized piperine compo- sition derived from black pepper extract, is secured
- 1999: Sabinsa breaks ground in Payson, Utah; one year later, the new Sabinsa Utah office is operational
- 2000: Colorless turmeric is intro- duced for the first time in the natural products industry
- 2000: Sabinsa Cosmetics division is created
- 2001: Sabinsa’s flagship ingredient ForsLean receives NutraCon’s Best New Product of the Year award
- 2001: National Cancer Institute begins largest prostate cancer prevention trial using Sabinsa’s Selenium SeLECT ingredient
- 2003: Sabinsa opens super-critical fluid extraction unit (solvent free manufacturing) in India
- 2006: Sabinsa Europe GmbH and Sabinsa Malaysia are opened
- 2008: New manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, India is opened
