Microencapsulation

Proven Crop Release Mechanisms for Optimized Performance

Taking You from Lab to Manufacturing at Any Scale

With decades of expertise in microencapsulation innovation, Milliken delivers precision-engineered, modifiable release mechanisms that enhance stability, performance, and product reliability custom-designed to protect and optimize your core materials.

Our dedicated in-house R&D experts streamline the journey from lab-scale innovation to full-scale manufacturing, ensuring customized solutions with seamless scalability so you can focus on delivering value to your customers.

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Improved Performance Enveloping Your Products

Milliken’s unique Encapsys™ microencapsulation technology handles a range of biodegradable chemistries and is compatible with both herbicides and non-herbicides, offering greater flexibility across varying use cases, including the ability to program phase changes.

Milliken leverages state-of-the-art analytical and testing capabilities to deliver data-driven insights that fuel product innovation, regulatory compliance, and consistent quality helping customers stay ahead of evolving market demands.

Biologicals

Pest Control

Delivery Optimization

Improving Biological Control

Reducing Unnecessary Usage

Enhancing Nutrient Delivery

Why Milliken’s Encapsys Technology?

Solving Complex Technical Challenges

Microencapsulation forms a protective barrier around active ingredients, ensuring stability, extended shelf life, precise targeting, and enhanced control. This innovative process improves formulation efficiency, enabling customized blends that optimize crop protection performance.

Milliken brings over 70 years of expertise in delivering technical solutions to even the most difficult cores across a variety of active ingredients. Our Encapsys technology offers precision-engineered chemical microencapsulation processes such as coacervation, interfacial polymerization and in situ polymerization with customizable release mechanisms – all while growing partnerships and protecting resource scarcity.

We’re building to deliver innovative solutions at scale.

Partner with Milliken to scale innovative microencapsulation solutions tailored to your industry needs.

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Microencapsulation to Support Sustainable Farming

Microencapsulation enhances stability, extends the shelf-life of agrochemicals, and reduces the risk of leaching into soil and waterways, making it a vital tool in sustainable farming practices.

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