Ingredients and raw materials
Industrial B2B sectors

Ingredients and raw
materials websites

Formulators and technical buyers need to confirm performance, compatibility, certification and supply security before a supplier reaches their shortlist.

We build websites for ingredients and raw-material suppliers that connect applications, specifications, certificates, formulation guidance and sample requests into one coherent buying journey. The aim is that an R and D chemist or a purchasing lead can answer their own qualifying questions before they contact your technical team.

The sector
What is included

What ingredient and raw-material suppliers need online

Buyers search by application, not by product name

A product name alone rarely explains why an ingredient or raw material is relevant. Buyers arrive with a functional outcome in mind: a texture, a stability target, a processing constraint, a label requirement or a cost position. We build navigation that lets a visitor enter through the industry they formulate for and the effect they need, then arrive at the products that deliver it, with the technical detail intact rather than simplified away.

Specification and certificate of analysis carry the decision

Technical purchasing rarely commits without seeing the specification sheet and, for many buyers, a representative certificate of analysis. Assay ranges, particle size distribution, moisture, heavy metals, microbiological limits and residual solvents are what a quality team checks. We publish these as structured, attached documents with revision control and clear language versions, so a buyer can confirm compliance against their own internal specification without a round of emails.

Origin, traceability and certification are part of the offer

For many raw materials the provenance matters as much as the assay: country of origin, manufacturing site, allergen and GMO status, and certifications such as ISO 22000, organic, kosher or halal where they apply. We give those attributes a defined place in the product model rather than leaving them buried in a brochure, so a buyer screening for a specific requirement can filter on it and see which products in the range qualify.

Samples and quotes are the real conversion point

In this sector the meaningful action is a sample request or a quotation, not a newsletter signup. We design those flows to carry the product, the grade, the application, the target market and the volume band, and to route to the right technical or commercial owner. When the request arrives with that context, the first reply can address the formulation problem instead of asking for information the site already collected.

Evidence that stays current without a developer

Application notes, formulation guides, starter formulations, regulatory statements and product literature lose value quickly when no one is able to update them. We give each asset a clear relationship to the product range and an owner in your team, so revisions and new documents are a routine content task. Governance over what is current and market-appropriate is designed in rather than bolted on after the first audit finds an outdated file.

Extending a lean technical team

Ingredient suppliers frequently run marketing and technical content with a small number of people who also have laboratory or commercial responsibilities. We size the platform to what that team can operate after handover, favouring a small set of well-documented content patterns over bespoke modules that only the agency understands. Our ongoing support covers what the headcount alone cannot, without taking editorial control away from you.

case studies

Clients who trust us

Industrial and technical B2B companies we build and maintain platforms for.
Industrial B2B digital platforms

A decade of digital work
for industrial and technical B2B

Code Industrial is the industrial B2B practice of Code Barcelona, an agency building corporate websites and digital platforms since 2015. The same strategy, design and engineering team works on every industrial project, from the first scoping session through to life after launch.

19
industrial sectors we serve
1.550
technical documents migrated in one project, permissions and URLs intact
+10
years of digital delivery for industrial B2B
What we build for ingredients and raw materials teams
What we build

What an ingredients platform
needs built

Portfolio, application and market priorities differ by business. These are the components that resolve product discovery, technical evidence and a clear commercial route for an ingredients and raw materials website.

How we work with ingredients and raw materials teams
Four stages

How we approach an
ingredients platform

Four stages, shaped around the technical evidence a formulator needs and what a lean team can sustain afterwards.

APPLICATION MAPPING
01
01

Entry points a formulator recognises

We map the portfolio against the industries you supply and the functional effects buyers are looking for, so navigation matches how they describe the problem.

What we map

We work through the range with your technical team to identify which products serve which applications, which functional claims are supportable, and where one material appears in several industries under different terminology.

Result

A visitor can enter through their own industry and their own vocabulary, then narrow to a small set of candidate grades rather than reading through a portfolio organised around your internal business units.

TECHNICAL EVIDENCE
02
02

Specifications and certificates in one governed structure

We put specification sheets, certificates of analysis, origin statements and certifications under a model with owners, revisions and market versions.

What we build

Each document is attached to the product it describes and tagged by type, language, region and revision date. Where a document is confidential or customer-specific, access can be gated without hiding the product itself from search.

Result

A quality reviewer can check your material against their internal specification directly from the product page, and your team can see which files are approaching a revision date.

SAMPLE AND QUOTE FLOW
03
03

Requests that arrive ready to answer

We design the sample and quotation journeys to capture product, application, market and volume, then route them to the right owner.

What we build

The request form inherits the product and grade the visitor was reading, asks only for the fields your team uses to qualify, and applies your rules on which markets or products can be sampled.

Result

Technical sales spend less time reconstructing what the enquiry is about, and requests that fall outside your sampling policy are handled at the point of submission rather than after an internal exchange.

CAPACITY-AWARE HANDOVER
04
04

A platform sized to be run, not only launched

We scope and build against the time your team can give the site after launch, favouring patterns they can operate without a developer.

What we assess

We look at how many people touch the site day to day, what technical skills they have in-house and how much time they can give it alongside laboratory and commercial work. That defines an appropriate level of platform complexity.

Result

A new product line, an updated specification or a fresh application note goes live in the week it is ready, and the scope contains fewer features that quietly fall out of date after handover.

Ingredients and raw materials FAQ

Ingredients and raw materials website FAQ

Questions that come up when a raw-material portfolio, its technical documentation and its application content have to work together online.

Should we organise the site by product family or by application?

Both, with applications as the primary entry point for new visitors and product families as the reference structure underneath. A formulator searching for a stabiliser for a particular process does not know your family names yet, while a returning buyer wants the family page directly. One product record can sit in several application routes without duplicating the page, which also avoids two versions of the same product competing in search results.

Can buyers download specifications and certificates of analysis from the site?

Yes. Specifications are usually published openly because they help buyers qualify the material, while certificates of analysis are often batch-specific and better handled through a gated area or a request flow. We define which document types are public, which are gated and which are issued on request, then attach each one to the product with its language, region and revision date so the correct file is served.

How do we present origin, allergen and certification information?

As structured product attributes rather than paragraphs in a brochure. Country of origin, manufacturing site, allergen status, GMO status and certifications such as organic, kosher, halal or ISO 22000 become filterable fields on the product record. A buyer screening the range against a single requirement can then see every qualifying grade in one view, and your team updates one field rather than several documents.

Can the site handle sample requests and minimum order quantities?

Yes. The sample flow inherits the product and grade being viewed and captures the application, target market and volume band, then routes to the right technical or commercial owner. Minimum order quantities, pack sizes and lead-time indications can be shown at grade level where you are comfortable publishing them, or held behind an enquiry where pricing structure makes that inappropriate.

Can the site support technical SEO without creating duplicate pages?

Yes. We create one authoritative page where there is a real product, application or topic need, then connect them through internal links rather than producing lightly altered pages for every material, market or keyword variation. That approach is more resilient to search engine updates and keeps the pages that already perform from being diluted by near-identical siblings.

We supply several industries with the same materials. How does that work?

The product record stays single, and industry context is added as a relationship rather than a copy. The same material can appear under food, personal care and industrial application routes with different application notes, different regulatory statements and different terminology, while the specification and documentation remain governed in one place. That prevents the common outcome where three industry microsites gradually disagree about the same product.

What happens when our portfolio or team grows?

The platform is built to extend rather than be replaced. New product lines, additional markets, a gated documentation area or a move into online ordering can usually be added as modules onto the existing structure, because the product model was defined with room for attributes you do not use yet. Our support relationship scales with the team rather than requiring a new agency search each time the range expands.

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Ingredients and raw materials

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ingredients platform

Tell us about the portfolio, the applications you supply and the documents buyers ask for. We will map the product model and content structure your ingredients website needs.

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