MARKETS Sweetener Demands Booming Dollar sales volume for Sucaryl and saccharin near $4 million—new food outlets pushed f \ \ I > for noncaloric food and beverages has bit night prosperity to manufacturers of sxnthctic sweeteners. Tvy o products are meeting this groyy nig need — Sucan 1 { c\clohex> Isulfaniate). m a d e by Abbott Laboratories. ( hicago; and saccharin i ben/rosulfimide. or an anhydride of o-sulhmide
benzoic acid ). most of yyhich is supplied by Monsanto and Maumee Chemical of Toledo; and He> d e n - \ e w p o i t and Mallinckrodt. to a lesser extent. Others, like Merck, have dropped out of saccharin production. The sweetening agent industry has been pretty much in the dark on its annual volume. It yvas. that is. until this year, when t h e U. S. Tariff Commission issued its first combined production figure for Sucaryl and saccharin. For 1957. this amounted to 2.1 million pounds. Manufacturers will not reveal individual production figures for the tyvo sweeteners. (•Safes Volume. Sales for the sweeteners came to 2.04 million pounds, and the dollar volume of sales to S3.S million. This yvorks out to a sales unit value of Sl.SS per p o u n d at the manufacturers' level. Saccharin makers must compete to an extent with imports. As against a 28
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distributors' price of $1.60 per pound in the East, imported saccharin is selling at $1.30 to $1.35. Largest foreign suppliers in this market last year were T h e Netherlands and Syyeden. although Japan has been moving into the market lately. The imports amounted to 129.520 pounds of yyhich 93.970 were insoluble saccharin and 35.550 soluble. Manufacturers are now making a drive for markets that reach beyond diabetic and dietetic foods. Sucaryl is being used experimentally to cure meats. hams, sausage, and bacon. Sucaryl is said to improve the flavor in meat. It adopted only partly by the meat industry, these uses would boost Abbotts sales considerably. Sucaryl is also being studied for similar uses in fruits and vegetables for canning. Sucaryl is heat-stable, a n d as a nonfermentable product it offers no mold problem. In canned fruits and vegetables. Sucaryl yvould supply less bulk and avoid spoilage. • Distribution Setup. Merchandising and advertising have stepped up sales i Sucaryl considerably. Packaging has played its part in this. Abbott sells Sucaryl directly, while Monsanto, on the other hand, sells saccharin in bulk to distributors, w h o move the product into retail channels. The growth curve for both products lias pointed upyvard along with population and the nation's economy. One t ighth teaspoon of Sucaryl solution, one tablet, is equivalent to one teaspoon of sugar in sweetening poyver. Saccharin is 400 times as syveet as sucrose. A number of sweeteners have resulted from chemical research, but very few have attained any commercial importance oyving to toxicity and other undesirable properties. T w o such compounds are Perillartine. 2000 times as syveet as sucrose, and New Douxan, 1400 times sweeter than sucrose. As long ago as 1951, researchers brought out 2-carboxy-4'-methoxydiphenyl ketone, which was about 150
times syveeter than sugar. This comp o u n d , however, h a d a bitter taste in concentration greater than .02' * . Another product yvhich aroused the interest of chemurgists for a time is Stevioside. 3 0 0 times sweeter than sugar. It comes from Paraguay. Some of the chemical industry's products are mistaken for sweete.iers. Atlas* Sorbitol is basically a hmnectant. and among other things, it is being used in diabetic d\\^\ dietetic foods. It's syveeter than sugar hut costs more. Sucrose octa-aeetate, made by Union Carbide ( "hemicals is not used as a
sweetening agent at all. b u t as a denaturing material in one of the industrial alcohol formulas. It has a very bitter taste. E. R. Squibb's Sweeta. on the other hand, is a sweetener for diabetics. It is a combination of sodium eyclamate and saccharin, and as a noncaloric product it competes yvith the latter. P-40O0 ( l-.V-propoxy -2-amino-4-nitrobenzene) yvas developed some years ago in The Netherlands. Its sweetening power was said to b e 4O00 times that of ordinary cane sugar. Food authorities deemed it too toxic for use. • Current Outlets. Diabetic foods, important outlets for synthetic sweeteners, were formerly tasteless waterpack fruits and vegetables. Prices were high and they have reached an annual business in excess of $250 million. Also, a tremendous volume has been built u p in noncaloric foods and beverages for a contour-conscious population that has m a d e slimming down a national activity. T h e s e people take Sucaryl and saccharin in volume. No one directly promotes the use of synthetic sweeteners in place of
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New Adhesives Price Set E a s t m a n Chemical Products has signed a marketing agreement with Armstrong Cork t o sell a n d distribute Eastman 910 adhesive. This product (methyl 2-cyano-acrylate) w a s announced a year a g o ( C & E X Oct. 2 1 , page 5 6 ) , a n d will b e available through Armstrong's industrial adhesive sales division, Lancaster, Pa., as well a s through E a s t m a n ' s order processing department, Kingsport, T e n n . A price schedule h a s also been established: one o r more o n e - p o u n d polyethylene bottles is S 7 5 per pound; two or more one-half p o u n d polyethylene bottles is $75 p e r p o u n d ; one or more cartons of 64 one-ounce polyethylene bottles with dispensing spouts is $96 per p o u n d . Evaluating kits, containing approximately one-third ounce of product in a polyethylene bottle, are available at: $5.00 p e r unit.
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