NATURAL TERPENE INGREDIENTS

Semi-synthetic ingredients are one of the important raw materials on flavour & fragrance industry. The terpenes based is a huge secondary metabolites family in plants, mainly includes Monoterpenes, Sesquiterpenes, and Diterpenes. Foreverest^® Terpenes Based Ingredients resource from pine trees, camphor trees, and eucalyptus trees. Such as α-Pinene and β-Pinene are the main ingredients of Gum Turpentine from pines. China has rich species resource and mature process, which is the material export county in the world.

For the flavour & fragrance manufacturing, the common synthetic routes were identified as ring-opening of cyclic monomers, such as Linalool, Geraniol, Dihydromyrcenol, Lauryl alcohol or Neroli. Monoterpene alcohols, such as Terpineol. Or other cyclic compounds, such as Camphor and Isobornyl. The products can synthetic as materials and intermediates for downstream routes, such as Bornyl Acetate, Isobutyl Acetate, Allocimene, Ambergris Ketones, etc.

According to the 6th Forecast Report of Forest Resources in China (CAF, 2007), the dominant species are P.massoniana, P.yunnanensis, P.kesiya var.langbianensis and P.latteri. Total tapping age areas were counted as 22.46 million hm², volumes were counted as 108.84 million m³. Yunnan is the largest area and volume of pine forest in China.

Annual pine oleoresin storage was counted as 180.6×10⁴ tons, P.massoniana by 77.5%, P.yunnanensis by 14.5%, P.kesiya.var.langbianensis by 8.0%

Forest Areas and Oleoresin Volume of Tapping Pines in China

Source: The 6th Forecast Report of Forest Resources in China, CAF 2007
One tapping area is 100 thousand M². One tapping volume is 100 thousand M³

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E. maculata Hook (As known as Lemon Eucalyptus) and E.globulus Labill are the main species of Eucalyptus for industrial export. The original provinces in China are Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Chongqing.

According to export volume report from China Customs, the export volume of Eucalyptus was reached by 9,775 tons, the volume of export to ASEAN up to 4,952 tons, the volume of export to EU up to 2,257 tons.

E.globulus Labill Oil

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Cinnamomum was originally grown in the south of China, natural contains Camphor, Safrole, Cineole, Terpineol, Camphene, Pinene, Nerol and Linalool.

Taiwan and Jiangxi are the largest forest areas. Cinnamomum can be identified by chemical types as Linalool, Camphor, Cineol, Iso-nerolidol and Borneol.