NEWS
GREEN SCIENCES - Plankton extract 💦
At Novéal, we cultivate plankton extract, also known as Vitreoscilla filiformis, an enchanting ingredient naturally present in spring water, offering a multitude of benefits to the skin. ✨
DISCOVERY of our GREEN CHEMISTRY PLANT in Mourenx 🌿💡
Today, dive into the heart of our #greenchemistry plant in Mourenx, one of L'Oréal's 40 production sites in France, located on the SOBEGI platform, in Pyrénées Atlantiques.
Our 2 production units work in synergy to create a dynamic and innovative industrial environment. 🚀

Scientific Expertise
Aa experts in Green chemistry, Biotechnologies and Innovative technologies, at Novéal :
- We are committed to a sustainable, environmentally-friendly approach to design high-performance production processes.
- We are continually developing new, active, natural ingredients by enzymatic catalysis, plant cell culture technology and fermentation.
- We have access to the cutting-edge technologies including eco-friendly plant extraction, technical blends and reactive extrusion, all dedicated to serving your ingredients.

Our missions
Novéal is a development entity created in 1938 by Eugène Schueller, L'Oréal founder, and is an integral part of the L'Oréal Group.
At the interface between Operations and Research, our passionate teams are committed to developing eco-responsible processes and sustainable industrialisation of the performance ingredients of the Group's Advanced Research.
Novéal develops and guarantees exclusive, high performance ingredients to satisfy the beauty needs of consumers around the world.
As a strategic asset of L'Oréal, Novéal is in direct touch with the 7 R&I hubs and 40 manufacturing plants of L'Oréal.

L'Oreal for the Future
L'Oréal for the Future, our sustainability commitments for 2030.
Global warming is accompanied by environmental changes that threaten potentially permanent degradation of human and natural habitats. Sea levels, melting glaciers, ocean warming and acidification as well as extreme weather events are on the rise. With higher stakes must come stronger commitments.
This is the reason why L’Oréal has decided to take its efforts even further through a program called “L’Oréal for the Future”. Our commitments towards 2030 mark the beginning of a more radical transformation and embody our view as to what a company’s vision, purpose and responsibilities should be to meet the challenges facing the world.
Novéal is taking action to enable the group to reach its environmental objectives at several levels :
1. Improving the performance of our production units
2. Innovation and process design of our ingredients
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