Company Expertise
Whatever your food or flavor needs, you can rely on the Citromax family of companies to meet them. Building on more than 40 years of the combined expertise of our companies and consumer confidence, we are in the unique position of being able to offer our customers the widest possible array of premium quality taste options–from fresh fruit and juices to oils and by-products to sweet and savory flavors.
What’s the Citromax difference?
- We are recognized as the citrus authority, with a unique, vertically integrated position in lemon production, owning and closely monitoring each stage of the lemon-growing process. From planting—our nursery includes a genetic bank of trees–to harvesting, from sapling to sip.
- We have established core competencies in
- essential oil chemistry
- isolation and separation process techniques
- flavor delivery science (i.e. emulsion expertise)
- tropical fruits, with taste treks to Latin America resulting in new tropical flavors such as jackfruit, mangosteen and acai
- health and nutraceutical products
- Stringent quality control and assurance have earned Citromax its stellar reputation in the most competitive and demanding international markets. For more detail, see our certifications.
- Our organic certification is ahead of the curve. We were organic before it was trendy.
- The latest technology enables Citromax to produce and preserve the highest quality lemon by-products such as essential oils, cloudy and clarified concentrated juices and dehydrated peel.
- All of our agricultural and industrial technology is managed and operated by highly experienced professionals who perform physical, chemical, microbiological and organoleptic analyses at every stage as needed. Our flavor chemists are some of the most experienced and creative in the industry, with more than 100 years of combined experience.
- We have state-of-the-art flavor laboratories and manufacturing plants that are responsible for many of today’s most recognized, iconic flavors in beverages, confections and baked goods, and innovators of tomorrow’s flavor stars. If you can dream it, we can create it.
- Citromax is poised to duplicate the success we have had with lemons in other markets by applying the expertise and processes that set us apart as a lemon grower and producer to other fruits like oranges and most recently blueberries.
- We provide the unsurpassed customer service that is the hallmark of our family-owned and operated companies.
