UAE Sidel is set to introduce its latest solutions in the beverage, food, home and personal care players at the Gulfood Manufacturing, Middle East’s biggest food and beverage processing industry event gathering suppliers from 60 countries.
Taking place from 29th to 31st of October at the Dubai World Trade Centre, Sidel (B1-4, in Hall 1) will specially focus on technology innovation, digitalisation and line performance over time.
“At this year’s show, our offering for water and sensitive drinks bottlers will be in focus. We’ll demonstrate how Sidel Super Combi – integrating preform feeding, blowing, labelling, filling/capping and cap feeding in one single smart solution – is able to offer great productivity and quality benefits for customers active in the water industry, like Niagara Bottling LLC in the US. Talking about liquid dairy products, as well as juices, isotonics, teas, and all sensitive beverages, our unique FDA-approved Sidel Aseptic Combi PredisTM, with its dry preform sterilisation technology, will be another highlight. This solution really fits the market needs of food safety, flexibility, ease of operations and sustainability perfectly,” said Harbinder Kathuria, vice president sales beverages MEA&I at Sidel.
The Middle East, Africa and India (MEA&I) region represents a dynamic marketplace: a 6.5% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), equivalent to an additional 35 billion units, is expected across all beverage categories by 2021. This development, accompanied by a rise in PET bottling across the entire region, will also be driven by Expo 2020, taking place in the UAE next year.
Giulio Bellanti, sales director food, home and personal care MEA&I at Sidel, added, “On a global scale we are noticing that PET has been increasingly adopted as the packaging material of preference in the home and personal care markets. This holds especially true for the bath and shower, hair care, laundry and surface care categories, but also for the food market – namely across sauce, dressing, condiments and edible oils. The latter are packaged in PET in nearly 75% of cases across Asia, Oceania and Africa.”
Bellanti said, “This segment is also where we have successfully collaborated with B.L. Agro Industries Ltd. in India, where we have installed two complete lines for edible oil to meet the rising demand in the market. Our offering for those industries will also be part of our display at Gulfood Manufacturing.”