Sensient Technologies Corporation, incorporated on December 7, 1882, is a manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances. The Company uses technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty inks and colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's three segments include the Flavors & Fragrances Group and the Color Group, which are managed on a product-and-services basis, and the Asia Pacific Group, which is managed on a geographic basis. The Company's principal products include flavors, flavor enhancers and bionutrients; fragrances, aroma chemicals and essential oils; natural ingredients, including dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients; natural and synthetic food and beverage colors; cosmetic colors and ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients and ingredients, and technical colors, specialty inks and colors, and specialty dyes and pigments.
Flavors & Fragrances Group
The Company is a global developer, manufacturer and supplier of flavor and fragrance systems for the food, beverage, personal care and household-products industries. The Company's flavor formulations are used in various consumer products. The Company offers its products to multinational companies under the brand names of Sensient Flavors, Sensient Natural Ingredients and Sensient Fragrances. The Flavors & Fragrances Group produces flavor and fragrance products that impart a desired taste, texture, aroma and/or other characteristics to a range of consumer and other products. This Group includes the Company's natural ingredients business, which produces ingredients for food processors. The main products of this Group are systems products, including flavor-delivery systems and compounded and blended products. In addition, it also offers selected ingredient products, such as essential oils, natural and synthetic flavors, and aroma chemicals.
The Flavors & Fragrances Group serves food and non-food industries. In food industries, markets include savory, beverage and sweet flavors. In non-food industries, it supplies fragrance products to the personal and home-care markets. The Company through its Sensient Natural Ingredients business, also produces dehydrated onion and garlic products in the United States. It is also a producer and distributor of chili powder, paprika, chili pepper and dehydrated vegetables, such as parsley, celery and spinach. Domestically, the Company sells dehydrated products to food manufacturers for use as ingredients and also for repackaging under private labels for sale to the retail market and to the food service industry. The Flavors & Fragrances Group operates principally through the Company's subsidiaries, Sensient Flavors LLC and Sensient Natural Ingredients LLC. As of December 31, 2016, the Flavors & Fragrances Group's principal manufacturing plants were located in California, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Belgium, China, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Color Group
The Company is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of colors for businesses worldwide. The Company provides natural and synthetic color systems for use in foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals; colors and other ingredients for cosmetics, such as active ingredients, solubilizers and surface treated pigments; pharmaceutical excipients, such as colors, flavors and coatings; specialty inks, and technical colors for industrial applications. The Company sells its synthetic and natural colors to domestic and international producers of beverages, bakery products, processed foods, confections, pet foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
The Color Group operates principally through the Company's subsidiary Sensient Colors LLC. As of December 31, 2016, the Color Group's principal manufacturing plants were located in Missouri, New Jersey, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Color Group operates under trade names, such as Sensient Food Colors (food and beverage colors), Sensient Pharmaceutical Coating Systems (pharmaceutical colors and coatings), Sensient Cosmetic Technologies (cosmetic colors and ingredients and systems), Sensient Inks (specialty inks) and Sensient Industrial Colors (paper colors, and industrial colors for plastics, leather, wood stains, antifreeze and other uses).
Asia Pacific Group
The Asia Pacific Group focuses on marketing the Company's product line in the Pacific Rim under the Sensient name. Through these operations, the Company offers a range of products from its Flavors & Fragrances Group and Color Group, as well as products developed by regional technical teams to appeal to local preferences. Its manufacturing operations are located in Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and the Philippines.
777 E Wisconsin Ave
The company trades on NYSE exchange. The company headquarter is located in Wisconsin, WI. The company was established in the 1882.| Ticker | SXT |
| Long Name | Sensient Technologies Corporation |
| Short Name | Sensient |