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Dubai all set to unveil Gulfood Manufacturing inaugural essay on Nov 9
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Saturday, 01 November, 2014, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Anurag More, Mumbai
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fiogf49gjkf0d The Gulf city of Dubai, which is known for its magnificent buildings and infrastructure, is all set to unveil yet another spectacle - the inaugural edition of Gulfood Manufacturing - at Dubai World Trade Centre on November 9, 2014. The show will be on till November 11.
“Over 1,100 international companies have committed to the show, which is expected to attract over 10,000 regional and global trade visitors, and 1,500 delegates, who would share the latest industry insights and market trends, state-of-the-art technology and product innovations in a cache of niche shows, conferences and technical workshops,” informed Mark Napier, exhibition director, Gulfood Manufacturing, Dubai.
According to him, the show would showcase the latest offerings by makers of ingredients, processing machinery and packaging equipment and providers of logistics, warehousing and cold chain solutions at a series of niche shows, and conduct conferences and technical workshops.
The event has been conceptualised to capitalise on the unprecedented market demand for processed foods from the Middle-East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA), and is being billed as one of the region’s biggest-ever trade show launches.
Industry heavyweights are primed to utilise Gulfood Manufacturing’s unique proposition as a one-stop-shop to source the latest products and avail services to enable the faster, cheaper and cost-effective production of safer and more reliable products, which are key enablers in saving costs and increasing revenues in the increasingly competitive global food trade industry.
As a vessel conceived to spur growth, Gulfood Manufacturing would leverage Dubai’s strategic position as a recognised manufacturing and logistics gateway between the east and the west and the primary re-export hub to emerging countries and economies across the MEASA.
The Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) food imports have been forecast to reach $53.1 billion by 2020, according to a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
With this, Gulfood Manufacturing would reverse the finished foods focus of February’s annual Gulfood showcase and, instead, highlight the region’s ripe business potential as a leading international manufacturing and processing hub.
MEASA’s largest-ever, industry-specific Hosted Buyer Programme (in partnership with Tetra Pak) would be a key asset in turning promise into product.
It has been designed to enable large multinational food producers to explore expansion avenues in the MEASA and empower regional food manufacturers to respond to increased customer demand by replacing and upgrading production line equipment.
The programme would ensure that the companies seeking the manufacturing business improvement tools needed to compete in increasingly competitive global markets make multi-million dollar investment decisions at the event.
Influential buyers from such countries as Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Iran and Nigeria would attend the Hosted Buyer Programme.
The show would encapsulate Gulfood Manufacturing’s objective - to highlight growth avenues, prompt dialogue and increase inward investment.
Aside from gathering the vast majority of the world’s major processed food and beverage makers, the event’s unique business potential has already been hailed by Dubai’s Food and Beverage Manufacturing Business Group (FBMG), a non-profit industry body for F&B manufacturers based in the emirate.
With established players and newcomers from across the globe heading to Gulfood Manufacturing to conduct high-level networking and investment-driven discussions across the region’s food manufacturing sphere, the world looks set to follow suit.
Visitor profile
Gulfood Manufacturing is the only event in the Middle-East and Africa that brings together the machinery, ingredients, packaging and logistics industry, with boardroom, finance and procurement heads, owners and investors and their production, research and development and engineering teams.
Conferences and features
F&B Industrial Investment Summit
The Food and Beverage Industrial Investment Summit is a strategic investment event bringing together overseas investors and multinational corporations currently exploring economic, market and manufacturing opportunities in the region.
The summit, which would take place over three days, would provide attendees a unique opportunity to understand financial, legal and technology benefits of locating operations in the Middle-East.
November 9: Conference on economic and investment outlook for food manufacturing industry
Saad Al Awadi, chief executive officer, Dubai Exports, would deliver the keynote address, titled ‘Food fuelling the United Arab Emirates’ future: Securing sustainable food supply by increasing regional production and reducing the reliance on imports’.
A keynote panel on food security would deliberate upon tackling food security challenges as an immediate priority for GCC.
Sessions scheduled for November 10
Operations and best practices in food manufacturing
Fahad Al Gergawi, chief executive officer, Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI), would deliver the keynote address.
Ryan Qutub, chief executive officer, Industrial Valley, King Abdullah Economic City, would make a presentation titled ‘King Abdullah Economic City - Creating a food logistics and manufacturing hub for sustainable growth.’
Dennis Jönsson, president and chief executive officer, Tetra Pak, would make a presentation titled ‘Tetra Pak - Powering innovation in food processing and packaging.’
There would also be a panel discussion on international best practices in food manufacturing and packaging.
On November 11, 2014, there would be a discussion on the Middle-Eastern Halal market’s outlook.
There would be an international keynote titled ‘Mobilising investments within the Halal food sector.’ The panel would comprise Siddiqui and Aossey.
Food Factory of the Future: Vision by UFT
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates food production would need to increase 70 per cent by 2050 in order to feed the world population.
This would place huge demand on food manufacturing factories to massively increase capacity. But is that the full story? What exactly does the future hold for the food processing industry?
The Food Factory of the Future by UFT would take place between November 9 and 11, 2014.
UFT believes that the food factory of the future would look and function in a very different way, with innovations in space utilisation, processing yields, hygiene controls and waste management contributing to a faster, more efficient, cleaner and more eco-friendly factory.
Continuous processing equipment innovations would deliver processing efficiencies that, a few years ago, would have been impossible to achieve.
New, innovative racking systems would ensure that the factory of the future requires far less warehouse space.
And, although it sounds difficult to believe, factories in the future would be able to achieve zero per cent waste emissions, minimising their carbon footprint and arresting the flow of waste to landfill.
Show sectors
Ingredients Middle East
At Ingredients Middle East, one would find the latest ingredients innovations, tastes and flavours together with bulk and commodity ingredient suppliers.
ProPack Middle East
Processing equipment and packaging machinery to solve all of your production challenges.
Whether you are seeking increased volume, flexibility, efficiency, quality or cost control, ProPack Middle East is for you.
The event covers all food manufacturing sectors with special focus on the meat and fish processing, dairy, beverage, bakery and sweet and snack industries.
Food industry in GCC
The food and beverage industry across the GCC region has historically relied heavily on imports.
Primarily due to the rising populations, the growing demand outstripping the domestic supply and limited food production capability, imports account for more than 70 per cent of the region’s total food requirement.
This has consequently resulted in raising the issues of food security, related policies and fluctuating prices regionally as well as locally.
In a bid to reduce import dependency, governments, particularly that of Dubai, have played a pivotal role in developing the food processing and manufacturing sectors.
Offering a conducive environment for the food manufacturing business, the report further revealed that Dubai served as a base for multinational corporations, and the F&B industry had seen strong foreign direct investment flows with international players like Fonterra and Mars setting up bases in Dubai.
Moreover, trade could occur without any customs as per the Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) agreement in 18 Arab countries and three Muslim countries (Syria, Iraq and Morocco) with reduced documentation.
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