Acme-Hardesty Partners with Lygos To Represent Soltellus™ For Personal and Home Care Markets
Blue Bell, PA & Hayward, CA – As a leading distributor of high-quality, sustainable ingredients, Acme-Hardesty is thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with Lygos, Inc., a leader in high-performing, sustainable solutions. Through this collaboration, Acme-Hardesty will represent Lygos’ biodegradable polymer, Soltellus™, expanding their reach in the personal care and home care markets.
Acme-Hardesty, with over 80 years of experience, offers a diverse range of bio-based and specialty ingredients, including actives, fillers, pigments, and surfactants. Their formulation expertise helps customers develop innovative and sustainable personal care products. Known for their commitment to quality and sustainability, Acme-Hardesty is a trusted partner for manufacturers seeking high-performance, eco-friendly solutions.
Lygos’ Soltellus™ is designed to meet the growing demand for sustainable and eco-friendly products. These multifunctional, biodegradable polymers are engineered to deliver high performance in various applications, including:
- Personal Care – Enhances the performance of skincare and haircare products while being biodegradable and delivering potential cost saving benefits for brands.
- Home Care – Improves the performance of laundry detergents by boosting enzymes and surfactants, ensures clear glassware in dishwashing detergents, and excels in all water conditions, including cold and hard water.
“Acme-Hardesty is an established and trusted resource for high quality, sustainable ingredients,” said Rich Weber, Chief Business Officer of Lygos. “We are excited to partner with them to reach a broader customer base, accelerate market penetration, and drive the adoption of high-performing, sustainable solutions.”
Acme-Hardesty is renowned for its commitment to providing high-quality, responsibly sourced ingredients. By partnering with Lygos, Acme-Hardesty will enhance its portfolio with innovative solutions that align with the industry’s shift towards sustainability. This partnership underscores both companies’ dedication to environmental stewardship and their shared vision of a greener future.
“We are thrilled to partner with Lygos and bring Soltellus™ to our customers,” said Caren Dres-Hajeski, Sr. VP Personal Care and Marketing at Acme-Hardesty. “This collaboration allows us to offer even more sustainable options to the personal care and home care markets, helping our customers create products that are both effective and environmentally friendly.”
Soltellus™ is available now for purchase. For immediate sample requests, please contact your Acme-Hardesty Regional Sales Manager (RSM). Starting December 1st, 2024, you can also request samples through UL Prospector or the Acme-Hardesty website.
About Acme-Hardesty
As a division of Jacob Stern & Sons, Inc., we are one of the largest distributors of specialty ingredients in North America. We serve various markets with products such as: actives, castor oil and derivatives, oleochemical derivatives, bio-based products, preservatives, and surfactants. We also offer a full range of renewable palm-based products, such as glycerine, fatty acids, fatty alcohols, and specialty esters. As a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the Alliance for Chemical Distribution (ACD), we support sustainable and renewable practices and create bio-based solutions for the future. For more information, visit www.acme-hardesty.com.
About Lygos, Inc.
Lygos, Inc. is a sustainable specialty chemical company that helps customers meet their highest performance and sustainability goals. Lygos’ solutions are designed to replace persistent and carbon-intensive chemicals with products that are better, cleaner, and cost effective. With a proprietary and fully integrated platform of the most advanced technologies across synthetic biology, industrial chemistry, and application development, a pipeline of innovative products, a first-of-itskind Sustainable Solutions Center, and a commercial scale biorefinery complex, Lygos is accelerating the world’s transition to high-performing, sustainable solutions. For more information, visit www.lygos.com.