Abu Dhabi: The third edition of Gulfood Manufacturing will kick off on Monday at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) with a 20 per cent year-on-year growth in exhibitors and exhibition space.
The event brings together trade professionals working in food manufacturing, processing, packaging, logistics, cold chain and materials handling.
Gulfood Manufacturing will bring together more than 1,600 exhibitors from 58 countries, and will include 29 official national pavilions from countries such as Austria, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The show will also host first-time national pavilions representing Indonesia, Ireland, Russia, and South Africa.
Trixie LohMirmand, senior vice-president of Exhibitions & Events Management at DWTC, said the exhibition is aligned with the Dubai Industrial Strategy, which aims to generate more than 27,000 jobs and contribute Dh160 billion towards the emirate’s economy by 2030.
“As the region’s primary platform for the regional food and beverage industry companies to access global food producers, equipment manufacturers, and cold chain providers across the international food production value chain, Gulfood Manufacturing is a strategic catalyst for prolonged food manufacturing industry growth in Dubai, the UAE, and the wider region,” LohMirmand said.
This year’s Gulfood Manufacturing will be split into three specialist areas including Ingredients Middle East, ProPack Middle East, and Logistics Solutions Middle East.
Ingredients Middle East will feature fine and functional ingredients, and the latest commodity ingredients, innovations, tastes, and flavours; while ProPack will cover automation, processing equipment, and packaging machinery.
Logistics Solutions Middle East will feature exhibitors involved in materials handling, transport and commercial vehicles, technology solutions, warehousing operators, facilitators, and service providers.
“After establishing our Middle East business in 2006 and having exhibited annually at Gulfood since 2007, the emergence of Gulfood Manufacturing has been a core revenue driver for us over the last two years,” stated Amir Sotoudeh, managing director at Multivac, a food packaging solutions provider.
