where beauty has its roots

THE ROOT
FOR A LONG LASTING
PARTNERSHIP
WHERE BEAUTY HAS ITS ROOTS
Our mission is to ensure our customers can
secure sustainable supply of ethically harvested biomasses
and compounds to generate high-quality products
for the cosmetic market.
ROOTec bioactives Ltd
Benkenstrasse 254 B
CH – 4108 Witterswil / Basel
Switzerland
T +41 61 721 85 72
F +41 61 721 85 73
www.rootec.com
info@rootec.com
THE ROOT TO COSMETICS
ROOTED IN TECHNOLOGY
ROOTec utilizes plant root cultures – the so-called Hairy
Root Cultures (HRC) – as natural factories for bioactive
compounds. Our patented bioreactor technology provides
the optimal manufacturing process for constant quality
and flexible scalability.
Transformation
Products
Unique Advantages
HRCs can be created from an almost limitless number of
plant species. Hairy roots are generated by the natural soil
bacterium Agrobacterium rhizogenes. They grow faster and
branch more often than conventional roots and contain
high concentrations of bioactive substances.
Utilizing the vast reserve of the plant kingdom, ROOTec
produces biomass and high value plant derived extracts and
compounds with an efficient process, enabling its customers to generate high-quality products.
Environmental Compliance:
• Production of phytochemical compounds without
exploitation of rare species
• Protection of biodiversity
ROOTec has a broad portfolio of hairy root cultures and is
creating novel hairy roots on customers’ requests.
Purity of Process:
• Production of biomass and compounds in a sterile and
managed environment
• No contaminants by pesticides, herbicides, heavy
metals, dioxins
Biotechnological Production
Young plant tissue
(leaves, stems, petiols,
flowers)
Basal content of
bioactive substances
Agrobacterium
rhizogenes
Transformation
Hairy root cultures
ROOTec has developed an innovative bioreactor system,
the ROOTec Mist Bioreactor (RMB). The RMB technology
optimizes the growth of HRCs and the production of bioactive substances under sterile conditions. Its modular construction renders the RMB system very flexible. The
production volume can be expanded efficiently from experimental dimensions to large-scale production.
Increased production
and release of
bioactive substances
Besides sustainable access to compounds from rare or unexplored plants, ROOTec’s technology provides to its customers innovation steps by exploiting the potential of
biotransformation and molecular pharming.
Innovation:
• Access to substances from rare and unexplored plants
• Biotransformation: Derivatisation of a molecule by
the biochemical potential of a plant
• Hairy Root Cultures are an efficient biologic system for
molecular pharming, the production of recombinant
proteins
Efficiency:
• Rapid set-up of production process
• Genetically stable clonal lines for production