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22 NEWS impressive, they look fabulous and they also taste great. Our customers are really keen to sell these products when they are available”. Univar Middle East & Africa Univar Middle East & Africa Food Ingredients provides innovative and inspiring solutions which support the latest consumer trends and demands across the Middle Eastern food industry. Univar offers its customers a versatile, speciality ingredient portfolio from world-leading supply partners, with in-house technical excellence, outstanding service and extensive supply chain services. Save the date for Gulfood Manufacturing, which will be held on November 6-8TH 2018 in Dubai. At GFM 2018, Univar will be showcasing cutting edge ingredients from key supply partners in a variety of food applications. For more information please contact your local Univar Account Manager or email [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there. Food Ingredient and Solution Experts Univar Food Ingredients provides innovative and inspiring solutions for all your food ingredient requirements. Delivering on the latest developing trends, with our global supplier network, in-house technical expertise and outstanding service. [email protected] www.univar.com/EMEA FOOD BUSINESS GULF & MIDDLE EAST SEALPAC at Anuga FoodTec 2018: all-in-one tray sealers and thermoformers, sustainable packaging systems, high-value convenience solutions At Anuga FoodTec 2018, the leading and impulse-generating exhibition for the global food industry, SEALPAC will focus on innovations around efficient and sustainable packaging processes and materials. The leading manufacturer of tray-sealing and thermoforming technology has almost doubled its stand surface to be able to present its full range of packaging equipment and solutions to the expert audience. Visitors to the stand will find state-of-the-art packaging lines in live operation, efficient solutions for the industry's predominant trend towards skin packaging, as well as packaging innovations from around the world, especially for the growing convenience segment. Maximum precision, flexibility and efficiency is demonstrated with the fully automated, servo- driven, all-in-one SEALPAC A7 traysealer. This particularly flexible packaging machine is suitable for a wide product range and efficiently handles all types of sealable materials whilst achieving outputs of up to 100 packs per minute (depending on the application). The FlatSkin ® packaging system combines an attractive product presentation with extended shelf life and a particularly sustainable use of packaging materials (up to 75% less plastic). A highly transparent barrier skin film fixates the product directly onto its flat cardboard carrier, which has been coated with a polymeric protective layer. After taking out the product, the thin polymeric layer is easily removed from the cardboard carrier to allow for separate disposal. SEALPAC also meets the industry's demand for more sustainable packaging solutions with its EasyLid ® concept. This packaging system, developed in close cooperation with Naber Plastics, provides a hermetic seal and full lid function in just one sealing process. It requires a special and patented tray produced from mono PP materials. Next to the conventional sealing edge, the EasyLid ® tray JANUARY - MARCH 2018