NUTRILOX®, THE NEXT-GENERATION ADDITIVES LINE FOR ANIMAL NUTRITION BORN FROM THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN NOVAMONT AND SILA
Novara, 10 November 2026 – On the occasion of EuroTier (Hannover, 10–13 November 2026), the leading international trade fair for professional livestock farming, Novamont, a Versalis (Eni) company, and SILA, a company specialising in microencapsulated products for animal nutrition, present Nutrilox®, a family of feed additives born from the collaboration between the two companies and scientifically validated by the universities of Milan and Bologna through a series of in vitro and in vivo trials that verified their characteristics and efficacy in relation to specific development objectives.
Nutrilox® is a range of solutions based on short- and medium-chain fatty acids and essential oils. The fatty acids selected for Nutrilox® are produced at Novamont's biorefinery in Porto Torres (Sassari), thanks to a proprietary, first-of-its-kind technology developed to valorise the molecular complexity of vegetable oils. On this base, SILA's microencapsulation technology acts, protecting the selected active ingredients through specific coatings, improving their stability and bioavailability while ensuring controlled, targeted release along the digestive tract. This approach and the specially selected active ingredients make it possible to achieve more precise and effective animal nutrition, with the goal of improving production performance and, in the case of ruminants, reducing the intensity of methane emissions by up to 33% (as demonstrated by in vivo studies conducted by the University of Bologna).
The line currently comprises five solutions, designed to meet specific animal nutrition needs: Nutrilox® Geolin, in its two variants EB and PP, dedicated to different stages of the ruminant production cycle; Nutrilox® Defence and Nutrilox® Performance, developed for poultry; and Nutrilox® Starter for calves in the early stages of rearing.
"Nutrilox® is the result of the encounter between fatty acids — which, together with other biochemicals, are produced in our integrated biorefinery thanks to a more efficient use of raw materials of plant origin — and SILA's microencapsulation science. We decided to be present at EuroTier to place this technology at the service of an increasingly precise, efficient and sustainable livestock farming," declared Alessandro Del Seppia, Head of Biochemicals at Novamont.
"Nutrilox® stems from a technical and responsible choice in support of the growing number of farmers who demand quality products with a lower environmental impact. With our microencapsulation we deliver active ingredients where they are needed and, together with Novamont, we have demonstrated that production efficiency and sustainability can grow in the same direction. At EuroTier we present our idea of the future: technically precise, concrete in its results," added Maurizio Lorenzon, CEO of SILA.
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