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Nexira, the world leader in gum acacia gets stronger in India

Rouen, France – (July, 2019) – Nexira announces that the new spray-drying tower located in Marudur, Tamil Nadu,  is now fully operational to serve all its customers in India. The tower was built in partnership with Synthite, the world’s largest producer of spice oleoresins who offers a wide array of natural ingredients for the food, health and fragrance industries.

Nexira opened its office in Mumbai in 2012 to serve the requirements of both global and local customers in one of the fastest growing market in the world. With India as the world’s largest consumer of gum acacia, Indian food and grocery industry ranks as the sixth largest in the world1. Foreign investors, multinationals and local companies are seeing this potential and are investing in the Indian food processing sector.

Today with this new state-of-the-art production facility operated in partnership with Synthite, Nexira can supply large quantities of spray-dried gum acacia dedicated to this growing Indian market.

As the world leader in gum acacia, Nexira controls the entire supply chain and can confidently guarantee that every product is of the highest quality standards. This confidence is built on more than a century of experience in sourcing raw materials and long-term partnerships assuring a reliable supply chain and complete traceability. Our Quality Assurance policy controls all the steps in our own laboratories, from production to delivery of the product to our customers. The Indian production unit is certified FSSC 22000, ISO 9001, BRC, KOSHER, HALAL and SEDEX.

Our reinforced team based in Mumbai and Marudur provides a strong technical assistance and sales support to Indian customers.

The new production and warehouse facilities will enable Nexira to answer specific market and customer’s needs across India. Thanks to our long experience and leadership in gum acacia, our technical team has a thorough understanding of food, nutrition and health applications. Indian customers will be supported to develop new formulations using gum acacia for its unrivalled technological properties and for claiming nutritional or health benefits.

Nexira and Synthite will officially inaugurate the new production facility at the end of September.

Nexira will exhibit at FI India (Mumbai) in October and will present a wide range of applications of gum acacia in the food industry (stall No. F62).

1. Innova Market Insight