INNOVATION AT A MICRON LEVEL
Microencapsulation creates a protective shell around active ingredients—using advanced techniques like coacervation and polymerization—to deliver performance exactly where it’s needed. Whether you're enhancing consumer goods, optimizing crop protection, or elevating textiles, our engineered delivery systems are tailored to your product and backed by precision expertise that drives results.
Tunable Release Formulation
We tailor microencapsulation to match your product’s performance goals—calibrating release profiles for precision and control. Choose from three delivery methods:
- Slow Release: Extend efficacy with gradual diffusion over time.
- Targeted Release: Activate ingredients on demand using triggers like UV light, temperature, or pH.
- No Release: Lock in properties with a durable, impermeable shell that adapts without compromising integrity.
PERFORMANCE AT A MICROSCOPIC LEVEL
Milliken is the right partner to work at a molecular level and impart game-changing characteristics the eye can’t see—but that creates an outsized impact.
Big Ideas from a Tiny Capsule.
This is a cross-section of a microcapsule with a shell specifically engineered using Milliken’s Encapsys™ technology to maximize the delivery and power of the core. This capsule is 20 microns—5,000 microns clustered together would appear as just a small dot to the naked eye.
FROM CHALLENGE TO SOLUTION
Step 1: Idea Exploration
Collaborate to build a case for success about your idea and shape and scope your vision into a clear path forward.
Step 2: Proof of Concept
Turn ideas into tangible concepts, test core functionality before moving into full design and align on success criteria.
Step 3: Design
Shape concepts into prototypes and validate feasibility and recalibrate success criteria and align on regulatory needs/requirements.
Step 4: Develop
Build, test, and prepare for full-scale production.
Achieving More Together
LET’S CREATE THE PERFECT CAPSULE
When you partner with Milliken, you have a group of industry-leading scientists helping you stay one step ahead. Microencapsulation allows you to take your product to the next level, helps ensure safety or performance, delivers an exceptional experience, or simply retains physical properties. Whatever the ask, we apply our microencapsulation technology across a variety of industries and products to create value. And that’s only the beginning.