As a new-type foreign trade service provider driven by technological transformation and foreign trade services, HiSiaddi has established a "1+2+3+4=1" service system and can supply original factory goods of Spirulina-Chlorella composite powder from multiple well-known brands. Possessing R&D attributes, HiSiaddi has repeatedly resolved clients’ customization demands for Spirulina-Chlorella composite powder through technological cooperation with manufacturers and precise insight into market demands. Below is a case of HiSiaddi delivering customized Spirulina-Chlorella composite powder solutions.
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The buyer is ORGANATUR, an organic health group based in Zurich, Switzerland. With 31 years of expertise in developing and producing high-end organic dietary supplements, clinical functional nutritional products and organic meal replacement powders across the Alps region, its products are sold in Swiss chain organic supermarkets, nutrition departments of Swiss private hospitals and high-end wellness institutions in Germany. All its product lines comply with EU-ORGANIC organic certification, USDA organic certification, BRCGS food safety standards, IFS raw material control standards, California Proposition 65 hazardous substance control, as well as HALAL and KOSHER dual certifications. Its flagship product lines include broken cell algae powder capsules and instant compound nutritional powders. Targeting the mid-to-high-end European organic raw material procurement circle, it rejects low-grade algae raw materials produced via extensive field cultivation with excessive pesticide residues and added anti-caking agents. It is a typical high-quality mid-to-high-end client with a stable annual purchase volume of 42 tons of composite powder from German organic algae manufacturers.
Affected by multiple factors including shrinking local algae cultivation land in Europe, surging labor costs, a raised minimum order quantity of 8 tons per batch by local manufacturers, and an extended ocean delivery cycle of up to 95 days, the group launched a China-based customized substitution project in 2025. The client brought its self-developed exclusive formula and independently contacted four leading domestic algae powder manufacturers (Yunnan Green Algae Bio, Shandong Blue Algae Industry, Fujian New Daze, Jiangsu Youlv Bio) for customized sample production. However, all four factories mainly mass-produced standard universal composite powder, with fixed production lines for blending, cell breaking and dust modification designed for mass-market health supplement specifications. They refused to separately adjust the full processes of cultivation, harvesting, cell breaking, blending and powder modification for niche customized orders. After 8 rounds of sample testing and inspection, all samples failed to meet the client’s terminal formula requirements in four key indicators: nutritional composition, powder physical properties, odor and heavy metal control. The client incurred over 82,000 Swiss francs in losses from R&D consumables and auxiliary material debugging, and the launch of its new organic meal replacement powder scheduled for autumn was delayed by 3 months. After fruitless negotiations with factories on optimization, the client fully entrusted HiSiaddi to coordinate full-chain customized delivery services covering raw material site selection, formula technical transformation, lab and pilot trials, mass customization and compliance supporting.
Exclusive Mandatory Technical Indicators for Client Customization (Far Exceeding National Standard Universal Algae Powder, Benchmarked against EU Organic Pharmacopoeia Standards)
1. Precise Ratio: Fixed Spirulina: Broken-cell Chlorella = 65:35; crude protein content of Spirulina ≥62%, protein content of broken-cell Chlorella ≥51%, Chlorella cell breaking rate ≥98.5%; chlorophyll and phycocyanin contents locked within fixed ranges without nutritional deviation caused by batch-to-batch raw material fluctuations.
2. Powder Physical Indicators: 100% pass through 120-mesh sieve; angle of repose 30°±1.5%; moisture absorption weight gain <1.2% after 72 hours under 60% humidity environment with no caking; fully soluble in water within 30 seconds with no floating residues, compatible with fully automatic low-temperature canning equipment.
3. Safety Control: Contents of four heavy metals (lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium) far below the limit standards of EU EC1881; all pesticide residues compliant with EU MRL control list; no microcystins detected; no artificially added anti-caking agents, maltodextrin or other auxiliary materials throughout the whole process.
4. Sensory & Storage Performance: Native earthy and pond fishy odors eliminated; no oxidative discoloration or rancidity after 18 months of sealed storage at room temperature, suitable for long-cycle warehousing and distribution across Europe.
After on-site visits to the four production bases and analysis of test reports for multiple batches of unqualified samples, HiSiaddi sorted out the core pain points hindering domestic mass manufacturers from undertaking high-end customization, which are common industry-wide challenges:
All four factories adopted a universal fixed blending ratio of Spirulina:Chlorella = 7:3 on automated blending lines with fixed silos and feeding metering equipment. Adjusting the ratio to the customized 65:35 required emptying the entire production line silos and recalibrating feeding scales, incurring high raw material loss and labor costs from single production line shutdown and cleaning. Factories prioritized large-volume spot orders and declined line reconfiguration for small-batch customized ratios.
Universal commercial Chlorella adopted simple airflow crushing with a cell breaking rate of only 82%~88%. The client required ultra-high-pressure cell breaking at ≥98.5%, yet most domestic factories lacked dedicated high-pressure homogenization cell breaking equipment. Outsourced broken-cell raw materials suffered inconsistent batch quality, leading to fluctuating digestibility and chlorophyll indicators that failed to meet nutritional labeling requirements for the client’s finished products.
Naturally cultivated algae powder carried pond putrid odors, while standard products only underwent simple hot air drying without low-temperature enzymatic deodorization procedures. Conventional crystallized crushed powder featured uneven particle sizes with an angle of repose ranging from 37° to 43°, prone to moisture absorption and caking under high humidity, causing blockages in automatic canning production and incompatibility with the client’s meal replacement powder formula.
Some factories sourced Spirulina and Chlorella from scattered open-field farmers with loose control over water sources and fertilizers, occasionally resulting in excessive heavy metals and pesticide residues. Only a small number of bases with closed photobioreactor cultivation complied with EU organic planting specifications, yet such production lines faced persistent tight scheduling and manufacturers refused to split production capacity for customized orders.
HiSiaddi set up a special project team consisting of algae raw material technical engineers, on-site technical transformation specialists, EU organic compliance officers and cost accounting specialists, implementing a complete customized service workflow: select self-owned organic cultivation bases → flexible production line technical transformation → multiple rounds of lab sample iteration → pilot trial verification → phased mass production delivery.
Two manufacturers were selected from the four candidates: Fujian New Daze (with self-owned closed photobioreactor Spirulina cultivation bases) and Yunnan Green Algae Bio (specialized workshop for high-end broken-cell Chlorella). Both enterprises possessed self-owned organic cultivation water areas, BRCGS-compliant food workshops and idle flexible pilot production lines. HiSiaddi negotiated with the factories to utilize gaps between mass production orders to activate customized workshops and split raw material production: the Fujian base exclusively produced the 65-part organic Spirulina powder, while the Yunnan base customized the 35-part high broken-rate Chlorella powder. Subsequent precise blending was completed uniformly in the dust-free workshop of New Daze, lowering the client’s single-batch minimum order quantity from the original factory requirement of 6 tons to 3.2 tons to accommodate small-batch phased stocking demands.
1. Precise Blending Section Renovation: Temporarily deploy a small closed feeding and blending system for pilot trials with independent calibration of 65:35 feeding metering. Adopt layered pre-mixing + three-dimensional tumble blending technology to achieve a mixing uniformity RSD <2% per batch, eliminating nutritional fluctuations caused by ratio deviations.
2. Chlorella Cell Breaking Upgrade: The Yunnan base deployed ultra-high-pressure homogeneous low-temperature cell breaking equipment for segmented cell breaking at ambient temperature, stabilizing the Chlorella cell breaking rate at 98.8%~99.2% while preserving chlorophyll and active polysaccharides from high-temperature degradation, locking protein indicators within internal control standards.
3. Low-Temperature Deodorization & Powder Modification: Add a low-temperature biological enzymatic deodorization procedure to mildly decompose fatty acid impurities triggering fishy odors in algae cells. Subsequent low-temperature vacuum drying + airflow classification crushing achieves 100% passing through 120-mesh sieve, stabilizing the angle of repose at 29.2°~30.5%. Dehydration parameters were optimized to control powder moisture absorption weight gain within 1.0%, completely resolving caking and poor solubility issues.
4. Full-Chain Source Cultivation Control: HiSiaddi deployed quality control specialists stationed at cultivation bases to supervise water sources and organic fertilizer application throughout the process, prohibiting chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Raw materials harvested per batch were sent for pre-inspection via SGS EU-standard full pesticide residue and heavy metal testing to ensure all pollutants fell below EU limit values.
A total of 5 batches of lab samples and 4 batches of 120kg pilot trial productions were completed. All samples underwent full physical, chemical, microbiological, pesticide residue and heavy metal testing by SGS in accordance with EU organic standards, and were simultaneously sent to the client’s R&D laboratory in Switzerland for canning and formula actual measurement. Crushing and classification parameters were fine-tuned based on powder dissolution rate, while vacuum drying degree was optimized to improve storage stability. After 47 days, all indicators passed the client’s R&D acceptance, and the client issued a formal sample qualification confirmation receipt.
The full-year 42 tons of customized composite powder were split as follows: the first trial production batch of 5.8 tons, with the remaining 36.2 tons divided into 11 batches scheduled monthly in staggered production. Flexible production capacity of the dual bases enabled flexible raw material allocation to avoid process fluctuations from one-time large-volume mass production. HiSiaddi conducted on-site sampling and retention inspection before delivery of each batch, issuing bilingual Chinese-English COA full-item quality inspection reports and batch traceability records.
Custom food-grade inner aluminum foil vacuum bags + outer moisture-proof cardboard drums were manufactured in compliance with Swiss organic food laws, with tri-lingual (Chinese, English, German) labels printed on drums indicating organic certification numbers, mixing ratios, production dates and storage conditions. A full set of valid certificates including EU organic, USDA organic, BRCGS, KOSHER and HALAL certifications, certificates of origin and full-chain cultivation traceability ledgers were provided simultaneously, all documents available for the client’s finished product filing with Swiss food regulatory authorities and customs clearance.
The first 5.8 tons of customized Spirulina-Chlorella composite powder were loaded at Ningbo Port for shipment to Rotterdam (transit port) en route to Zurich, Switzerland. All compliance documents were submitted to Swiss customs for pre-review in advance, enabling one-time customs clearance without inspection or detention upon arrival. Raw materials were fed into the client’s two automated production lines for meal replacement powder and capsules, delivering clog-free canning and rapid cold-water dissolution with no precipitation. Finished products retained for room-temperature stability testing showed no odor or discoloration after 12 months of storage. The high-end organic meal replacement new product whose launch had been delayed for three months was successfully rolled out across Swiss national organic supermarket chains and private hospital nutrition channels.
All 42 tons of annual raw materials were delivered in batches without incident. Compared with the original German imported raw materials, the client’s comprehensive procurement cost decreased by 26.3%, while ocean delivery cycles were shortened from 95 days to 39 days, greatly optimizing the client’s global supply chain turnover efficiency.
1. ORGANATUR Group of Switzerland fully terminated imports from German manufacturers, switching 100% of its annual 42-ton customized composite powder sourcing to China via HiSiaddi. In the following year, the client added a low-dust ultra-fine specification composite powder exclusively for women’s wellness, with an additional annual purchase order of 15.7 tons.
2. Drawing on the process experience accumulated in this customization project, HiSiaddi assisted Fujian New Daze and Yunnan Green Algae Bio in perfecting standardized production processes for EU-grade organic algae powder customized products, successfully developing two equivalent high-end organic nutrition brands in Austria and Luxembourg.
3. The client appointed HiSiaddi as its exclusive Chinese raw material customization service provider, entrusting all formula customization and origin selection for algae powder, plant extracts and other raw materials to HiSiaddi for overall coordination.
Leading domestic Spirulina and Chlorella manufacturers boast mature large-scale cultivation and mass production processes, yet their production lines are generally constructed to meet universal mass-market health supplement specifications with fixed blending, cell breaking and drying parameters. Factories hesitate to invest in equipment technical transformation for refined customization catering to mid-to-high-end overseas clients due to production line reconfiguration costs and mass production revenue considerations. Mid-to-high-end EU organic nutrition brands feature proprietary formulas and stringent EU organic regulations, imposing extremely high customization thresholds for raw material ratios, cell breaking rates, sensory properties and safety indicators. Independent liaison with manufacturers frequently leads to repeated failed sample trials, delayed new product launches and excessive R&D losses.
Breaking away from the superficial business model of traditional foreign trade limited to raw material matchmaking, HiSiaddi positions itself as a full-chain customization service provider, connecting source cultivation control, factory technical transformation, formula pilot trial implementation and EU compliance supporting services. It not only helps mid-to-high-end European clients implement domestic raw material substitution solutions and recover economic losses from delayed product launches, but also assists premium domestic organic algae manufacturers in escaping low-price competition for bulk raw materials and entering the high-value EU organic dietary raw material supply chain, delivering long-term win-win results for both supply and demand sides.
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