Vitamin E helping to protect against Alzheimer's

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Past studies have linked vitamin E to a host of health benefits, such as improving the function of the liver and thereby strengthening the body's defence system, as well as helping to protect against Alzheimer's disease, and boosting heart health. It is also thought to have an anti-cancer effect.

The demand for vitamin E is expected to grow over the next five years. A report by Frost & Sullivan last year said the Western European vitamin E market saw revenues of around €72.4m in 2004. It predicts that the market will grow by around €105m by 2011

Despite the rise in raw materials, both DSM and BASF have made efforts to increase production of the vitamin over the past few years to meet this increasing demand. BASF said this summer it would increase its annual capacity of the chemical intermediate propionic acid - a major component in the production of vitamin E - at sites in Germany and China. It hoped to boost overall capacity from 110,000 tonnes to 149,000 a year. In 2004 DSM lifted its vitamin E capacity to 25,000 tons. Both DSM and BASF, the two leading European players for vitamin E, have come under significant price pressure from lower cost production,

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