NEW HAMPTON, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Balchem Corporation (Nasdaq:BCPC) today announced that it has expanded its Applications Laboratory to introduce a Bakery Innovation Center. This facility is available to companies desiring access to Balchem's innovative baking ingredient development capabilities. Additionally, the Bakery Innovation Center provides superior customer service, especially for Balchem clients with formulation or scale-up issues.
"The new Bakery Innovation Center demonstrates Balchem's commitment to offer our customers first class technical support, as well as cutting-edge solutions for the bakery industry. Our food scientists can now accelerate our customers' product development and problem solving processes," said Eric Smith, Vice President, Sales and Marketing.
The Bakery Innovation Center provides new opportunities to leverage Balchem's proprietary Bakeshure(r) technology, which effectively controls release and reaction of active ingredients through micro-encapsulation. Customers can now engage in bench-top working sessions directly with Balchem scientists to get a better understanding of how encapsulated products can improve their formulations and how fortification of baked goods can be achieved simply with a 'drop-in' ingredient. Together with Balchem's existing R&D laboratories, the Bakery Innovation Center will significantly augment Balchem's ingredient delivery technology opportunities.
Segment Information
Balchem Corporation consists of three business segments: ARC Specialty Products; Food, Pharma and Nutrition; and Animal Nutrition and Health. Through ARC Specialty Products, Balchem provides specialty-packaged chemicals for use in healthcare and other industries. The Food, Pharma and Nutrition segment provides proprietary microencapsulation, granulation and agglomeration solutions to a variety of applications in the human food, pharmaceutical and nutrition marketplaces. The Animal Nutrition and Health segment manufactures and supplies products, including animal grade choline to numerous animal health markets and certain derivative products into industrial applications.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements, which reflect Balchem's expectation or belief concerning future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Balchem can give no assurance that the expectations reflected in forward-looking statements will prove correct and various factors could cause results to differ materially from Balchem's expectations, including risks and factors identified in Balchem's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007. Forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the above cautionary statement. Balchem assumes no duty to update its outlook or other forward-looking statements as of any future date.