Flo Chemical Corp

Flo Chemical Corporation, located in Ashburnham, MA, is a world leader in ZEIN manufacturing, producing edible coatings and encapsulation products for Flo Chemical Corporation is a ZEIN manufacturing companies owned by brothers Joel and Paul Freeman....

Flo Chemical Corporation, located in Ashburnham, MA, is a world leader in ZEIN manufacturing, producing edible coatings and encapsulation products for Flo Chemical Corporation is a ZEIN manufacturing companies owned by brothers Joel and Paul Freeman. In the 1970's, they became interested in the properties of Zein. First discovered in 1821 by J. Gorham, Zein is the water-insoluble polyamine from corn gluten meal. It has been the subject of numerous scientific papers and commercial endeavors. In 1897, T.B. Osborne discovered that Zein was soluble in aqueous solutions of the lower molecular weight alcohols. This discovery proved to be the foundation for the ability to extract Zein from corn gluten and the start of the commercialization of Zein. First used commercially in 1939, Zein is a kosher, complex protein and is predominantly used as a coating or additive in the food processing and pharmaceutical industries. Zein has been used in a myr