November 24, 2025 — Leads & Copy —
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), a global company in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, has installed the Colibri robot at its Chin Bee production facility in Singapore. The advanced industrial dosing system produces fragrance sample batches on demand, speeding up the fragrance development process for customers in Greater Asia.
The robotic system is installed at IFF’s cross-category Scent and Taste production plant in Chin Bee. It accelerates the path from idea to formulation for fragrance creation.
The Colibri robot replaces the previous system and handles multiple ingredients at once. It operates four times faster and boosts automation. The improved capability gives more capacity, faster sample delivery, and better lead time, which meets customer demand for speed in the fragrance landscape.
Ramon Brentan, Vice President, regional General Manager, Greater Asia, Scent at IFF, said the new automation system at IFF Chin Bee shows IFF’s commitment to continued investment in Greater Asia. He said it strengthens their ability to support demand in the region with speed, quality, and precision.
The new system allows fragrance trials to take seconds to compound. The site can produce 200 sample batches in eight hours, a task that used to take twenty-four hours. Besides reducing time-to-market, the system allows perfumers to innovate with more agility, moving faster from formula ideation to sample.
The Chin Bee plant is the latest IFF site to incorporate Colibri. Other IFF locations that use this automation system are Neuilly, France, and Hilversum, Netherlands. Since opening its $30 million (USD) Singapore Innovation Center, IFF has expanded its capabilities in the area, from co-creation spaces to advanced robotics.
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