Itaconix (AIM:ITX), an AIM-listed developer of plant-based specialty polymers, has extended its collaboration with Spanish tableting equipment maker Bonals Technologies through to December 2028, building on a partnership first signed in November 2024.
The extended agreement, operating under Itaconix's SPARX Formulated Solutions business, is focused on accelerating the commercialisation of plastic-free, solid unit-dose detergent tablets in the United States and Canada.
The two companies have already installed a pilot-scale Bonals tablet press at Itaconix's North American Innovation Center, which produced the company's patented 8-gram plastic-free dish detergent tablet showcased at the American Cleaning Institute's Innovation Showcase in February, and now available via its deeperclean.com e-commerce site.
The extended collaboration will focus on working with contract manufacturers to install high-speed Bonals presses capable of producing more compact, faster-dissolving tablets, exploiting what the companies describe as a technical synergy between Bonals' compression cycle and Itaconix's detergent polymers.
"Our work with Bonals and purpose-driven brands in our North American Innovation Center is demonstrating the sizable opportunity for us to replicate our success of European tablets in North America," said John R. Shaw, CEO of Itaconix.
The company's next stated step is using its pilot press to build commercial volumes with a select number of brands ahead of broader contract manufacturer adoption.
