Unique extracts serving health and research.
Plant Extraction Platform
The Reunion Island plant extraction platform features over 80 m² of space dedicated to the extraction and purification of metabolites from various matrices. Through this technology platform, we aim to offer economic actors in the Indian Ocean region resources, equipment, support services and our expertise for the extraction, storage and valorisation of standardised extracts.
As a member of the French national network of chemical and extract libraries, ChemBioFrance, coordinated by the CNRS Institute of Chemistry, the Réunion Island plant extraction platform has developed on this model with its own quality system ensuring full traceability, from the sourcing of the biological resource to the final extract, under controlled and standardised conditions.
The overall objective of the Réunion Island plant extraction platform is to highlight the chemo-diversity of plants from Réunion Island and other islands of the Indian Ocean. The aim is to valorise the potential of plants from our territories and to offer new natural sources of bioactive molecules that could be used in various formulations, particularly cosmetics, following feasibility studies.
Fields of application
Consulting and support
New projects, in collaboration with the Management and the CB-TECH unit
Research and Development
New extracts or purified molecules of plant or marine origin
Cosmetics
R&D of new natural ingredients
Our services
Our services are aimed at all economic actors in the Indian Ocean region wishing to develop new natural ingredients:
Sample preparation
- Freeze-drying
- Thermal drying
- Grinding
- pH measurement
- Moisture content measurement
- Vacuum packaging
Extraction – Purification
- Essential oils by microwave
- Essential oils by turbo-hydrodistillation
- Accelerated solvent extraction (ASE)
- Microwave
- Ultrasound
- Soxhlet
- Flash fractionation
- Extract concentration
Extract library
- Storage and handling of extracts with monitoring
- Access to extracts from the collection
Ongoing projects
Trét'zerbaj
The Reunion Plant Extract Library is currently a partner of the PIOM (Plan Innovation Outre-Mer – Overseas Innovation Plan) "Trét'zerbaj", led by the University of Reunion Island, which aims to valorise Reunion Island biodiversity to combat infectious diseases (Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika…) that can occur locally.
The 4 main objectives:
- Create a database of metabolites of Réunionese origin
- Establish an extract library of local resources
- Identify bioactive molecules against infectious diseases
- Develop prototype therapeutic formulations
Operation supported by the French State under the Overseas Innovation Plan of France 2030, implemented by Caisse des Dépôts
