Competitive Technologies, Inc., Fairfield, CT, has entered the nutraceutical ingredients market through a strategic investment into and acquisition of exclusive marketing rights to the output of the proprietary extraction technology of Agrofrut E.U., a Colombia-based producer of nutraceutical ingredients and other similar products. Agrofrut’s proprietary technology uses the biomass waste of pineapples, sugar cane, oranges, grapefruits and other agricultural products to produce high quality, low cost nutraceutical ingredients.