Food Manufacturing Journal - Middle East & Africa Magazine - October 2013

In this issue

Trends in snacks and packaging
This issue covers several aspects of snacks and convenience foods, from flavour trends to new processing methods. Our special report takes a look at how snack food companies in

South Africa are dealing with high input costs. Executives from Source Handmade Foods, Mondelēz South Africa, and Snack Seasonings, as well as packaging company, Fima Films

share their thoughts. Also in this section, we introduce Biozoon Food Innovations, a German-based company that has been given EU funding to develop enzymatic and fermentation

processes and other biotechnological methods to reduce sugar, fat, and salt in ready-to-eat foods.
Al Nassma Chocolate LLC, the maker of high-end camel milk chocolates from Dubai, raised the ante this year by opening the Majlis Dubai milk café. In beverage, learn more about

this company from Sales director, Patrick Dorais.
We also feature A’Saffa Foods S.A.O.G., a wellknown manufacturer of fresh and frozen products in the Sultanate of Oman. It offers a diverse range of products including

poultry, meat, seafood, and fruit and vegetables, as well as bottled mineral water. Our interview with Sidhartha Lenka, head of Marketing and Sales, reveals more in boardroom

connection.
In September, a number of companies introduced the latest equipment at the PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Drinktec 2013. We highlight some of them in this issue. One is SIPA’s XTREME

moulding machine, seen on the cover.
Aside from these, don’t miss the latest news on ingredients, processing and trade shows.

Food Manufacturing Journal - Middle East & Africa Magazine Description:

Food Manufacturing Journal - Middle East & Africa is published 6x a year in English with highlights in Arabic. The magazine provides the region's food & beverage processing industry with the latest information and technologies on ingredients, processing and packaging, food safety and regulatory issues. It offers practical solutions to improve productivity, reduce cost, and turn innovations into real competitive advantages as well as the latest market information, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles, written by industry experts and correspondents across the region. Also included are exclusive content and articles from industry professionals throughout the Middle East and Africa and from Ringier's family of food industry magazines covering Greater China region, South East Asia and other parts of the world, inclduing International Food & Beverage Ingredients News for China, China Food Manufacturing Journal, FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal, and Modern Food Processing (India). The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s food website (food.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.