Vivify, formally Aakash Chemicals & Dye Stuffs, has more than 40 years of expertise as a leading provider of specialty colorants and functional ingredients to customers across multiple consumer and industrial end markets including food & beverage, beauty & personal care, graphic arts, packaging, plastics, coatings, and seed treatments. We export to more than 50 countries globally. With products manufactured in the US, India and China, along with integrated coatings, plastic, inks, agriculture and textile laboratories, Vivify is a vertically integrated manufacturer of specialty chemicals for colorant applications.
Our Food & Beverage division/Calico offers best-in-class products, food colors, Naturals, FD&Cs, TiO2, Pearlescent, flavors, vitamins, coatings, and sweeteners sourced from global partners. We collaborate with customers to formulate, source, and supply specialty ingredients critical to the appearance, taste, nutritional value, and stability of end products. Our R&D team assists customers in achieving several goals ranging from new product development, clean labeling, calorie reduction, or going All Natural. Custom blending is Calico's core expertise. With over 1,000 custom formulations, our team can help solve any customer’s color challenge.
We also represent and distribute innovative food ingredients from our manufacturing partners from around the globe. Our distributed products include Calico-branded Food Colorants, Vitamin pre-mixes, Flavors, & Yeast Extracts.