HALLSTAR ANNOUNCES INVESTMENT IN BIORENUVA, EXPANDING ITS INTERESTS AND CAPABILITIES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY-ENABLED BEAUTY & PERSONAL CARE INGREDIENTS

Chicago, IL – March 19, 2025 – The recently formed venture arm of The Hallstar Company, a leading specialty chemical supplier for the beauty and personal care industry, today announced its minority investment in BioReNuva, a biotechnology developer based in Austin, Texas. This strategic alignment will enable Hallstar to explore novel approaches in the biosynthesis space, leveraging BioReNuva's expertise and manufacturing capabilities.

Hallstar Chairman and CEO John Paro sees this partnership as a logical extension of Hallstar’s activity in biotech. “Our existing innovation in natural functional and active ingredients has an impressive track record, and has underscored customers’ passionate need for ingredients that are safe, biodegradable, and effective. We see a future where biotech excipients – biosurfactants, for example, where BioReNuva already excels – will be a large portion of total growth in the beauty and personal care market.”

BioReNuva Founder Dennis Zlotnik agrees that biotech has a significant runway for market capture as scale and costs improve, and as consumers increasingly demand ingredients with low environmental impact. “My team and I have a strong affinity with Hallstar’s priorities, and we welcome this partnership. Strategic investors contribute to our company’s steady growth, and allow us to realize key goals when it comes to technical development, production capacity, and expansion into multiple verticals.”

According to this agreement, Hallstar will provide board-level oversight, while day-to-day operations will continue to be independently managed solely by the BioReNuva team.

“In researching the large-scale biotech landscape, we were truly impressed with BioReNuva’s vision, scientific talent, product performance and ability to execute,” observed Allan Koch, Hallstar’s Chief Financial Officer. “Identifying these growth venture opportunities and connecting meaningfully with adjacent fields of chemistry help us create value for our customers.”

Hallstar Growth Ventures was created to invest in high growth, high potential companies that are leveraging emerging technologies and that align with Hallstar’s strategic goals and values. For more information about this initiative, please reach out to Nate Fansler, vice president of corporate development, at nfansler@hallstar.com.

BioReNuva can be reached directly via www.biorenuva.com.

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