From July 1-3, 2026, In-cosmetics Korea 2026, Asia's most influential professional beauty ingredient exhibition, grandly opened at COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul. As a global leader in the hydrolyzed sponge niche and a benchmark enterprise in purification and extraction, Hunan Sunshine Biotech, with seventeen years of dedication to the field, made a landmark appearance at Booth C-G55 with its core proprietary brand SQT SPICULE, leveraging 99% high-purity hydrolyzed sponge raw materials, a complete international compliance system, and a professional technical service team, engaging in in-depth exchanges with global beauty R&D institutions, cross-border traders, and renowned brand owners, jointly exploring new opportunities for innovative development of functional skincare ingredients.
I. Leader in the Niche Segment, Consolidating Industry Leadership
In the natural sponge spicule raw material sector, Sunshine Biotech is widely recognized as an industry benchmark and market leader. Multiple core strengths build an irreplaceable industry position:
1. Technology Leader
Sunshine Biotech holds over 30 patents related to hydrolyzed sponge, and has developed a unique 25-step purification and extraction process, achieving 99% ultra-high raw material purity, over 92% integrity rate, and an extremely low needle-breakage rate. It has overcome industry-wide pain points such as insufficient purity, needle damage, and batch color differences, becoming a benchmark for peer process standards. Meanwhile, relying on a 26,000 m² independent R&D laboratory, the company has completed a comprehensive safety assessment of domestic hydrolyzed sponge, setting evaluation standards for global raw material safety applications.
2. National-Level Certified Leading Enterprise
The company is a National High-Tech Enterprise, a Sci-Tech SME recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a provincial-level "Specialized, Sophisticated, Unique, and New" enterprise. It is a core member of the Hunan Microbiology Association and the Cross-Border Trade Association, and an exchange and inspection partner for leading domestic biotech raw material enterprises such as Bloomage Biotech. Leading domestic biotech raw material manufacturers highly recognize its sponge spicule technical strength.
3. Leading Global Market Share
As the only source factory in China with large-scale high-purity sponge spicule production capacity, the company maintains a stable monthly production capacity of 5,000 kg, with a regular safety stock of 4,000 kg, and an annual output exceeding 60,000 kg. Products are exported to over 80 countries and regions worldwide, covering more than 10,000 global terminal customers. It is an official raw material supplier to international top-tier beauty brands such as Estée Lauder and Shiseido. Overseas markets cover Japan, Korea, Europe, America, and Southeast Asia, with export scale ranking first in the domestic hydrolyzed sponge category.
4. Regular Benchmark Brand at International Exhibitions
For consecutive years, the company has exhibited at global top-tier beauty ingredient exhibitions such as In-cosmetics Korea and Cosmetic Europe. It is the domestic hydrolyzed sponge brand with the highest recognition among overseas buyers. At every overseas exhibition, its booth becomes a key consultation destination for clients, continuously delivering high-end domestic biotech raw material solutions to the globe.
Asia Beauty Barometer, Building a Core Platform for International Raw Material Exchange
In-cosmetics Korea is the only professional exhibition in Korea dedicated to personal care raw materials. It brings together thousands of raw material suppliers from around the world, tens of thousands of formulators, brand purchasers, and international trade merchants, serving as a core commercial window for connecting with Korean beauty products and exploring European and American overseas markets. Relying on the global trend radiation of Korean beauty products, the exhibition has become a convergence point for cutting-edge raw material technologies, compliance standards, and market demands, and is also an important stage for high-quality Chinese raw material brands to go international.
For this exhibition, Sunshine Biotech leveraged its years of leading overseas export experience to precisely match the stringent requirements of the Japanese, Korean, and EU markets for functional ingredients. After years of deep market cultivation, Sunshine Biotech hydrolyzed sponge has established a comprehensive sales network in markets such as Japan and Korea, becoming a core supplier of hydrolyzed sponge products in Korea. It is understood that since 2022, Sunshine Biotech has participated in In-cosmetics Korea for 5 consecutive years, and has won high recognition from numerous Korean local clients and long-term large-volume orders. Without absolute product strength and reliable supply chains, it is difficult to win over a discerning market. At this exhibition, Sunshine Biotech showcased its proprietary SQT hydrolyzed sponge series as the core exhibition product, comprehensively demonstrating the stable quality and innovative strength of domestic natural freshwater biotech raw materials, and continuously consolidating the brand's leading voice and international market influence in the global hydrolyzed sponge sector.
Seventeen Years of Deep Cultivation in Sponge Spicules, Star Ingredient Ignites Booth Inquiries
The booth prominently featured the flagship product SQT Hydrolyzed Sponge, which is also the core advantage raw material that has defined the brand's seventeen-year deep cultivation in the sector and established its leading industry position. Relying on its own standardized production lines and independent quality control laboratory, Sunshine Biotech achieves stable and controllable raw material particle size, purity, and impurity indicators across all batches, precisely solving the industry's common pain points such as "quality deviation between samples and bulk goods, excessive irritation, and uneven particle size", which is also the core reason why numerous domestic and international brands and traders have chosen Sunshine Biotech for the long term.
The booth displayed transparent test tubes to visually demonstrate the pure white, fine powder and ultra-high purity, attracting large numbers of overseas buyers to stop and take samples. Many Korean local OEM factories and European traders conducted on-site in-depth negotiations regarding raw material irritation testing, compliance documentation, and bulk supply cycles, giving high recognition to the product's batch stability, comprehensive supporting test reports, and leading-level production capacity reserves.
Professional Team for Full-Process Support, One-Stop Overseas Raw Material Solution
The Sunshine Biotech business and technical team that went to the Seoul exhibition all possess years of overseas market service experience, and can simultaneously provide multi-language professional support, regulatory documentation support, and full-process services for formulation application references, matching the diverse cooperation needs of global clients.
Facing the core compliance challenges of overseas clients, the team on-site fully demonstrated the complete set of international qualification documents, third-party authoritative test reports, and export customs declaration supporting materials, eliminating traders' concerns about overseas distribution and brand product filing, and fully leveraging the advantages of the leading enterprise's comprehensive compliance system.
Addressing the pain points of overseas small and medium-sized traders, the brand simultaneously launched flexible cooperation models: small-batch sampling, long-term framework supply, and neutral packaging materials to protect intermediary channels, balancing the trial order needs of startup traders with the stable large-order production capacity support for large enterprises, truly achieving one-stop empowerment from raw material production to overseas landing, and meeting the procurement needs of global clients at different levels.
Breaking Circles with Quality, Continuously Expanding the Global Beauty Cooperation Map
During the exhibition, Sunshine Biotech simultaneously received multiple batches of clients from Europe, Southeast Asia, and Korea, continuing the deep cooperation trust established through previous transnational technical exchange meetings. Previously, overseas expert teams made special visits to the factory to conduct multiple rounds of discussions on raw material production processes, quality control standards, and sustainable production systems, conducting on-site inspections of the leading enterprise's complete industry chain strength; this offline meeting further finalized multiple annual large-volume supply cooperation intentions.
Differentiating from the industry's low-price internal competition model, as a leading enterprise in the niche sector, Sunshine Biotech consistently adheres to the "quality first, compliance-based" business philosophy, abandoning low-price homogeneous competition, deeply cultivating overseas high-end markets with stable product batches, comprehensive supporting services, and full-link stringent quality control, continuously conquering high-quality global clients. With seventeen years of deep cultivation in the hydrolyzed sponge niche sector, the enterprise continuously iterates and upgrades production processes and R&D technologies, optimizes the full-process service system for overseas exports, builds a global dealer network covering Asia, Europe, and the Americas, continuously widening the gap in technology, production capacity, and compliance services with small and medium-sized manufacturers in the industry, and consolidating its leading brand position in the industry.
Exhibition Invitation, Continuously Open for Long-Term Cooperation Negotiations
The three-day In-cosmetics Korea 2026 has successfully concluded, but Sunshine Biotech's global cooperation channel remains continuously open.
Whether Korean local beauty factories, European and American import traders, domestic raw material intermediaries, or functional skincare brands, all can contact the team at any time to obtain SQT hydrolyzed sponge samples, complete technical documentation, and quotation schemes. In the future, Sunshine Biotech will continue to use innovative biotech raw materials as a link to contribute to Chinese and foreign beauty industry cooperation, continuously exert its leading role in the niche sector, promote the standardization and international development of domestic sponge spicule raw materials, and let high-quality domestic biotech raw materials reach more global markets.
