Our mission
What we believe in
We buy food because of its smell and appearance. When released at the right time, flavours are the reason why people chew chewing gum and love the beautiful taste of a fresh coffee. Flavours, colors and fats make biting into a vegetarian burger a juicy, beefy experience much alike biting into a real beef burger. Unfortunately, many of these ingredients are unstable leading to increased costs for manufacturers and negatively impacting the product quality. microPow encapsulates valuable ingredients enabling timed release and preservation, which allows to drastically reduce losses during production and adding value to end products. microPow powders can be tailored to a broad range of food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications, without relying on any added artificial ingredients. Get ready for true, long-lasting chewing gum, instant coffee products, that taste like freshly brewed cappuccino and the beefiest, cow-friendly burger.
Cost efficient
The cold microPow encapsulation technology protects actives in their native state and guarantees their full effect in end products. Less ingredient – same perception.
Natural
Clean encapsulation without using any additives: Fat and active ingredient. Stable encapsulation – all natural.
Added value
Releasing actives at the right time using their full potential. Full release – better products.
Solutions
Instant coffee
Cost efficient
Natural
Added value
Coffee is a product that is consumed and loved around the globe. Consumers continue to ask for convenient instant mix cappuccino products, but do not want to compromise on quality. Instant coffee products still lack behind freshly brewed coffee in taste, since many of the volatile coffee flavours are lost during production and storage, leaving consumers with typically flat instant coffee.
All-natural microPow powders preserve volatile coffee flavours during storage and release the flavours when needed – during brewing at home. This makes the kitchen smell like the favorite coffee house, and the coffee taste like freshly brewed coffee.
Chewing gum
Cost efficient
Natural
Added value
Flavours are one of the main cost drivers in chewing gum production. Unfortunately, only a fraction of the flavour added to chewing gum during production is released while chewing. Moreover, true long-lasting flavours in chewing gum remain challenging, with flavours only lasting for few minutes.
microPow flavour powders enable an improved release of chewing gum flavour. Incorporating microPow powders into chewing gum enables cost-reductions for manufacturers while improving chewing gum for consumers.
Timeline
Our milestones
Project Kickoff
18. March 2018
microPow project officially kicked off based on the PhD theses of Lea and Pascal at the Laboratory of Food Process Engineering (Prof. Windhab) at ETH Zürich funded by an ETH Pioneer Fellowship.
2018 Kickstart Accelerator
11. July 2018
As one of 8 startups in the Food Vertical, microPow was part of the 2018 Kickstart Accelerator.
2018 Kickstart Accelerator – new collaborations
24. October 2018
microPow started three collaboration projects with two major food companies: Mondelez and Coop.
microPow article in Alimenta / foodaktuell.ch
24. October 2018
microPow was featured on the front page of Alimenta / foodaktuell.ch
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SNF Bridge: Proof-of-concept granted
06. December 2018
microPow will be supported through an SNF Bridge project in 2019.
Venture Kick Stage II
09. January 2019
microPow passed Venture Kick Stage II.
New production and office facilities in Meilen
11. February 2019
microPow moved to the new, larger facility in Meilen (ZH)
Featured in Red Bulletin Innovator
18. March 2019
The microPow story has been featured in the March 2019 Red Bull Innovator.
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Venture Kick Stage III
30. September 2019
microPow got the final kick: Venture Kick stage III!
The team
Core
Pascal Guillet, PhD
Founder
CEO
Advisors
Prof. Erich J. Windhab
Technology & Industry
Michael Stucky
Business & Finance
Dr. Peter Braun
Food industry
Contact us
How to find us
Hello
Contact us, if you have questions or want to find out more about how we can improve your products using a customized microPow solution!
Our business office
microPow AG
Alte Landstrasse 144
8706 Meilen
pascal.guillet@micropow.ch
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