RiceBran Technologies says it plans to move more aggressively into speciality markets, including dietary supplement excipients, to help stem losses. The company has stumbled trying to compete as a high volume food ingredient supplier.
Not all supplement and food ingredient manufacturers have benefited from pandemic demand upticks. RiceBran Technologies said consumers stocking their pantries with rice meant it had less raw material to work with, which hurt financial results.
Rice Bran Technologies has exited the Brazilian market and will concentrate on growing its ingredients business in North America, the company announced recently.
Stabilized rice bran maker NutraCea will update the market on the progress of its R&D tie-up with DSM to develop protein from rice bran in the first half of 2012.
Stabilized rice bran (SRB) supplier NutraCea has narrowed its loss in the second quarter of 2011 and increased revenues 29 percent, although sales of rice bran for food and feed applications did not grow as quickly as anticipated, the company said.
Stabilized rice bran (SRB) maker NutraCea has shipped its first products to China and won new business in the Philippines and the US as it strives to return to the black after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
A raft of higher-value products targeting humans rather than animals - from an ultra-potent antioxidant-rich rice bran oil to rice lecithin and food grade defatted rice bran – will help NutraCea puts its troubled past behind it in 2011/12, bosses have...
Rice bran ingredient and nutraceutical supplier NutraCea has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after just over a year – a move that allowed it to restructure and reduce overheads, the company has said.
Red and purple rice bran and their extracts may be rich natural source of phytochemicals for nutraceutical and functional food developments, according to new research.
Rice bran ingredient supplier NutraCea has said it expects to exit bankruptcy later this year after having filed for Chapter 11 protection in November to allow the company to restructure, reduce overheads and sell non-core assets.
Rice bran and baby cereal specialist NutraCea is cutting 17 per cent of its US work force, a move the company claims will save $1m annually in its process of reducing its overheads under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
NutraCea has entered an agreement with a Californian rice cooperative, which the company says will allow it to directly maintain a consistent supply of its stabilized rice bran ingredient to food manufacturers.
NutraCea, the leading supplier of rice bran, has fought back at findings from a recent study that the ingredient contains high levels of arsenic, maintaining that the claims are “scientifically unsound”.
A new study has found that rice bran contains high levels of arsenic, which threatens to seriously call into question its use in foods and supplements.
Rice bran supplier NutraCea has seen profits plunge in its second quarter as raw material restrictions meant the firm was operating at below one third of its normal capacity.
NutraCea has received approval from the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA) to supply stabilized rice bran as an enhancer
for pulverized meat and poultry products.
NutraCea is continuing its global expansion with the announcement
that it is to buy the largest rice bran oil processing facility in
South America, located in Brazil.
NutraCea and HerbalScience Singapore will join forces to create a
new company for the development of functional food ingredients
derived from stabilized rice bran.
Nutracea announced it has received an opening purchase order from
network marketing company the Cosway Corporation for launch of its
stabilized rice bran in Southeast Asia.
NutraCea has entered into an agreement with Archer Daniels Midland
(ADM) for the production of its stabilized rice bran - a
significant accomplishment for the young company as it brings its
nutritious ingredient to the mainstream...
NutraCea reported a more than threefold increase in revenue for the
fiscal year ending December 2006, following the first steps of
expansion into the food industry with its stabilized rice bran.
NutraCea is moving in on opportunities for its stabilised rice bran
in the Australia and New Zealand functional food market, signing a
distribution agreement for its ingredients with Med-Chem.
Rice bran ingredient maker Nutracea's business platform includes
fighting world hunger by getting nutritious meal replacements to
children through feeding programs. Given the 800 million hungry
people in the world, this is no...
On the back of increased demand for its stabilized rice bran
product, California-based NutraCea has announced it is to double
capacity at its Dillon, Montana plant, revising its previously
announced decision to increase capacity by...
Including a rice bran fraction in dietary supplements or functional
foods could lower blood pressure, says Japanese researchers who
have developed a new method of rice bran extraction.
NutraCea has entered into a raw rice supply agreement with the
Louisiana Rice Mill LLC (LRM) that could see the company's
Stabilized Rice Bran capacity tripled.
An increase in demand for stabilized rice bran derivatives since
NutraCea's merger with RiceX is requiring the Californian company
to increase capacity at its plant by more than 50 percent.
NutraCea is in discussions with high-level government officials and
rice mill owners in the Dominican Republic over joint ventures that
could see the rice-bran pioneer setting up operations in the
Caribbean country.
California-based NutraCea has been issued a new patent covering the
treatment of joint inflammation, pain and loss of mobility by its
stabilized rice bran.
NutraCea and The RiceX Company's plan to merge will create a
monopoly on rice bran for the nutraceutical market and bring the
nutritional benefits of the rice production byproduct to more
people, in both developed and developing...
The RiceX Company, the US producer of nutrient-dense stabilised
rice bran, has posted a 20 per cent increase in first quarter
sales, in turn boosting profits by more than 400 per cent.
NutraStar said last week that its scientists have received a second
diabetes patent, proving the effects of its stabilised rice bran
derivatives in reducing blood glucose levels, glycosylated
hemoglobin levels and improving insulin...
The RiceX Company, a manufacturer of food ingredients from
stabilised rice bran, has reported a 64 per cent increase in
revenues for 2001 to US$6.3 million (€7.17m) compared to $3.8
million in fiscal year 2000.
Supplementing a diet with stabilised rice bran could help reduce
blood sugar levels in people suffering from type I and type II
diabetes, according to recent research from the US.
