Lipofoods

What Lipofoods does

Lipofoods Nutraceutical Ingredients is a Spain-based (Vilanova Del Camí) B2B specialty ingredients supplier founded in 1987, operating with a workforce of 11-50 employees. The company develops and supplies branded microencapsulated minerals and botanicals for nutraceutical and functional food applications. Its flagship product is LIPOFER™, a microencapsulated iron ingredient described as "world-renowned" within the industry, designed to enhance mineral bioavailability, enable taste-masking, and provide sustained release in finished dosage forms.

The firm's underlying technology is microencapsulation: active mineral payloads (iron) are enclosed within protective matrices that improve sensory properties (reduced metallic off-notes), stability in food and supplement matrices, and absorption. End-format support spans powder formats (sachets, stick packs), solid formats (chewable tablets, capsules, gummies), and liquid formats (syrup, drops, vials, gels), as well as functional food matrices including infant formula, dairy, fruit juices, beverages, cereals, and snacks.

Lipofoods monetizes through ingredient sales to nutraceutical and functional food manufacturers on a quote-based B2B model; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Marketing and distribution are executed primarily through a channel partnership with Lubrizol Corporation, which markets LIPOFER™ microcapsules as part of its branded Nutraceutical Solutions active ingredients portfolio and provides global reach into dietary supplement and functional food producers. No independent funding rounds, management disclosures, or audited financial metrics were available in the input data.

Name

Lipofoods

Legal name

Lubrizol Corporation

Website

https://lipofoods.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lipofoods is a Spain-based B2B nutraceutical ingredients company that develops and supplies branded microencapsulated minerals, primarily LIPOFER™ iron microcapsules, to dietary supplement and functional food manufacturers globally via Lubrizol Corporation's distribution network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nutraceutical Ingredients

SIC

Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Delivery Systems & Encapsulation (Microencapsulation, Liposomes, Emulsions, Beadlets, Spray-Dried) (AFAJAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Encapsulation & Emulsified Delivery Systems (Spray-dried emulsions, Lipid microencapsulation) (AFAJACAL)

Keywords

• Microencapsulated minerals
• Nutraceutical ingredients
• Dietary supplement ingredients
• Functional food ingredients
• Branded active ingredients

Headquarters

HQ city

Vilanova Del Camí

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Microencapsulated Mineral Ingredients: Lipofoods generates revenue by supplying microencapsulated mineral ingredients (LIPOFER™) to nutraceutical and functional food manufacturers. The ingredients are incorporated into final consumer products such as dietary supplements and fortified foods, with revenue derived from ingredient sales to B2B customers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Lipofoods supplies branded microencapsulated minerals (notably LIPOFER™ iron microcapsules) and botanicals as active ingredients to nutraceutical and functional food manufacturers. The ingredients are designed to enable easier product development, enhanced bioavailability, taste-masking, and sustained-release delivery across powder, solid, and liquid dosage formats used in dietary supplements and fortified foods.

Product overview

Lipofoods is a nutraceutical ingredients company specializing in microencapsulated minerals, botanicals, and excipients. The company's flagship product is LIPOFER™ microcapsules, a branded microencapsulated iron ingredient. Lipofoods operates as part of Lubrizol's nutraceutical solutions portfolio, providing added-value active ingredients that enable differentiated nutraceutical products with leading performance claims for dietary supplements and functional foods applications including powders, solids, and liquid formats.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LIPOFER™: World-renowned microencapsulated mineral (iron) capsules used in nutraceutical and dietary supplement products, enabling innovation and enhanced consumer health.

Products and services

• LIPOFER™ Microcapsules

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LubrizolcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLubrizol distributes and markets LIPOFER™ microcapsules as part of their active ingredients portfolio for nutraceutical solutions. The partnership enables global distribution of Lipofoods' microencapsulated iron products to dietary supplement and functional food manufacturers.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ingredion: Ingredion offers encapsulation and delivery-system technologies (e.g., starch-based carriers) for food, beverage, and supplement manufacturers — directly comparable to Lipofoods in providing ingredient technologies that improve bioavailability and stability.
• Balchem: Balchem is a publicly traded specialty ingredient company with a strong encapsulation technology portfolio serving nutrition, food, and health markets — directly comparable to Lipofoods' microencapsulation-based B2B ingredient model.
• Glanbia Nutritionals: Glanbia Nutritionals supplies mineral premixes and specialty nutritional ingredients to supplement and functional food manufacturers, overlapping with Lipofoods' customer base and product category.
• Kerry Group: Kerry's taste and nutrition segment supplies functional ingredients, encapsulation systems, and bioavailability solutions to food and supplement manufacturers — closely aligned with Lipofoods' encapsulation-led value proposition.
• Watson Inc. Watson provides custom microencapsulation and nutritional ingredient manufacturing services to food, supplement, and personal care customers — directly comparable to Lipofoods' microencapsulation-based nutraceutical ingredient offering.

Broad incumbents

• ADM Nutrition: ADM's nutrition segment supplies flavors, colors, and specialty ingredients (including encapsulated systems) to food and beverage manufacturers — a broad incumbent whose offerings overlap with Lipofoods' functional ingredient positioning.
• dsm-firmenich: dsm-firmenich is a large, diversified nutritional ingredients supplier with broad mineral, vitamin, and premix capabilities, including encapsulation — competing with Lipofoods across many of the same end markets from a much larger portfolio.
• BASF: BASF's nutrition and health division supplies vitamins, carotenoids, and encapsulated ingredients to food and supplement manufacturers globally — a broader incumbent competing in the same microencapsulated ingredient category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/LubrizolCorporation
• Facebookfacebook.com/LubrizolCorporation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lipofoods
• Instagraminstagram.com/lubrizol
• Xx.com/lipofoods

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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