At the recent Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) a presentation outlining some of Loders Croklaan’s ground-breaking work on palm oil crystallisation won the award for ‘Outstanding Paper Presentation’.
The award was given in recognition of the excellence of form, content and presentation of the paper on ‘Metastable Zone Width and Crystal Morphology of 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerol and tripalmitoylglycerol crystallised from acetone’. It was authored by Kevin Smith, Fred Cain and Geoff Talbot.
AOCS is the world’s leading society related to the science and technology of oils and fats. It was founded over 95 years ago in 1909 and now has over 5400 members world-wide. Its Annual Meeting is one of the premier events in the oils and fats calendar and attracts about 1700 delegates from all over the world.
To be selected to present at the conference is an honour in itself. To win an award such as this, selected from hundreds of potential presentations, is indeed prestigious.
Click on right to download a copy of the poster presentation itself.
Other Awards:
Examples of the company's other awards include fats that inhibit bloom in chocolate, a human milk fat replacer and oils that extend the shelf life of foods. Just some of the areas of fat technology where intensive research is yielding revolutionary results.The company has been shortlisted three consecutive years for the prestigious Most Innovative Food Ingredients Award and won the award twice.
- Loders Croklaan won Fi Europe Most Innovative Food Ingredient Award twice
1994 - PRESTINE™, anti bloom fat
2001 - COTEBAR™ , moisture barrier - Pioneered and developed CBEs
- Strong patent portfolio (over 50 patents)
- Lipid Nutrition: 2004/05 - The Slimming Ingredient of the Year - with Clarinol™
- Lipid Nutrition: 2005 - Frost & Sullivan Award: Excellence in Technology - Technical Insights
- Lipid Nutrition: 2006 - Health Ingredient Silver Award - with PinnoThin™
- Lipid Nutrition: 2006 - Frost & Sullivan Award for Best Product Innovation - with PinnoThin™
- Lipid Nutrition: 2007 - I.S.A.N.H.: Best Slimming Ingredient Award - with PinnoThin™
- Lipid Nutrition: 2007 - Highly Commended at the Dairy Innovation Congress - with PinnoThin™