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Positive test results for encapsulation technology
Positive test results for encapsulation technology.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 8485B Revolymer PLC 09 April 2013 \n \n\n9 April 2013\nRevolymer plc\nRevolymer's REVCAP technology delivers a potential market-breakthrough for domestic mass market liquid laundry detergents\n \nRevolymer plc (\"Revolymer\") (AIM: REVO), the British polymer technology company, announces positive results from its latest in-house tests of its proprietary REVCAP encapsulation technology. These results demonstrate both the stabilisation of commercially important bleach actives in domestic mass market liquid laundry detergents, and the subsequent efficient release of such actives in the washing cycle. Accordingly this technology offers the potential for substantial improvement in the performance of domestic mass market liquid laundry products.\nThe domestic mass market liquid laundry detergent segment continues to grow more rapidly than the conventional powder domestic laundry detergent market. However, current liquid laundry main wash detergents do not contain bleach actives, which are an important constituent of most modern laundry powders and play a key role in cleaning clothes. This is because it has not, to date, been possible to stabilise such actives commonly found in laundry powders in a liquid formulation.\nHowever, Revolymer's REVCAP encapsulation technology creates a water impermeable coating around particles of bleach active that enables them to remain stable within liquid laundry formulations. Once in a washing machine cycle, changes in the environment (e.g. in pH, concentration or ionic strength) trigger the release of the bleach active which can then play its part in cleaning the clothes.\nThe results from the latest in-house tests on a variety of commercially available domestic mass market liquid laundry detergents to which Revolymer's REVCAP encapsulation technology has been applied show both formulation stability for up to 28 days in accelerated testing, and efficient release of bleach actives in the washing cycle. Accordingly the REVCAP technology is now being progressed into the commercialisation phase, and management are actively working on exploiting the potential to license the technology to appropriate leading players in the market.\nRevolymer will present recent underlying data on its REVCAP encapsulation technology at the 46th International Detergency Conference (www.idc.wfk.de)...