Döhler will present its portfolio of natural ingredients, ingredient systems and integrated solutions at Djazagro 2026, the leading trade fair for the food and beverage industry in Algeria and North Africa. The exhibition brings together key regional manufacturers, industry experts and decision-makers, offering a central platform for innovation exchange and partnership development.

North Africa’s food and beverage market is evolving rapidly, shaped by growing consumer demand for affordable products that combine great taste with a more natural and healthier positioning. This shift is driving clear formulation requirements, including sugar reduction, natural colours and flavours, fruit-based systems, robust shelf life and strict compliance with halal and food safety standards.

With its strong global footprint, advanced R&D capabilities and vertically integrated sourcing network, Döhler translates these market needs into scalable, market-ready solutions. Going beyond single ingredients, the company supports customers end-to-end – from market insights and concept development to formulation, scale-up and industrial production – enabling faster innovation cycles, reduced complexity and reliable product performance in highly competitive environments.

Focus at Djazagro 2026

At Djazagro, Döhler will showcase application concepts tailored to the Algerian market, combining Multi-Sensory Experiences with Nutritional Excellence while ensuring economic feasibility and process efficiency.

Key highlights include:

• Juice drinks featuring reduced sugar formulations, locally adapted flavour profiles and functional positioning with fruit, botanicals, vitamins and fibres targeting immunity and digestive wellbeing.
• Soft drink concepts including clean-label carbonated soft drinks as well as energy, hydration and gut health solutions, supported by natural flavours, colours and optimised sweetening systems.
• Functional dairy drinks delivering nutritional and digestive benefits alongside indulgent taste profiles, complemented by bakery applications based on natural ingredient solutions.

All showcased concepts are built on integrated compounds and systems designed to support rapid product development and industrial scalability, allowing manufacturers to launch cleaner-label, lower-sugar and functionally enhanced products without significant process adjustments or cost increases.

IPD is presenting 18 producers from Ethiopia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Rwanda and Tanzania at the “World of Coffee” industry event: booth 1429

Buyers can experience the diversity of coffee from South America and Africa at the Import Promotion Desk (IPD) stand at the World of Coffee. IPD is accompanying 18 coffee producers from Ethiopia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Rwanda and Tanzania to the international trade fair, which is taking place in Geneva from 26 to 28 June. During just one stop at the trade fair, interested visitors can learn about the wide range of Arabica varieties from well-known coffee countries.

Coffee from the South American highlands

The exhibitors from Ecuador, Colombia and Peru bring Arabica beans, which are grown at altitudes of up to 2,300 metres. The small, often family-run companies offer different varieties of the highest quality: Many coffee farmers from Ecuador have specialised in speciality coffee – for example the company “Chorora Farms”. It offers green coffee of different varieties. From Colombia, IPD supports companies that grow varieties such as Castillo, Caturra, Pink Bourbon and Geisha. The company “A Coffee Family” places a special focus on sustainable cultivation. Its organic coffee comes from five regions in Colombia. Peru is a pioneer in the production of organic coffee. Many coffee varieties here can be traced back to the plot of land. The company in the IPD programme “Perunor” also offers certified coffee. It grows beans of the Caturra, Typica, Pache, Catuai and Catimor varieties.

From the birthplace of coffee

Producers from the Kaffa region in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, will also be present at the IPD stand at the World of Coffee. The company “Diamond Enterprise” produces speciality coffee using wild Arabica varieties from the Kaffa Biosphere Reserve. Tega & Tula Coffee Estates” also processes wild Arabica varieties such as Kaffa and Limu from nature reserves. The companies also offer cascara, the dried pulp of the coffee cherry. Cascara tea is valued as a caffeinated fruit tea and its demand is growing in the European market. Coffee cultivation also has a long history in Tanzania. For generations, many small farmers have grown mainly Arabica, but also Robusta varieties at lower altitudes. This includes the IPD company “Ngila Estate” with a history stretching back over 100 years. The company grows its Arabica coffee on the slopes of the famous Ngorongoro Crater, 3 degrees south of the equator.

Event information: Buying mission to the coffee country Ethiopia

As an import promotion initiative, IPD is inviting European buyers to a sourcing trip to Ethiopia. From 19 to 26 October 2025, company visits to IPD-approved producers of Arabica coffee are on the agenda. During the IPD sourcing trip, importers will have the opportunity to inspect the entire coffee bean supply chain on site and meet their potential business partners in person.

The South African import and export logistics environment is constrained by the lack of use of rail transportation linking to road transportation, coupled to underperforming Transnet state-run container terminals. Equipment failure at the terminals has been widespread and it is very likely to persist for the time being. This dilemma is a major constraint for the exporting of citrus since 95% of exports are by way of containerization. Although significant investment has been made in cold storage capacity along the Eastern, Central and Western corridors set out to provide much needed capacity, the biggest constraint in the logistics chain lies in the challenge of delivering containers to the terminals in an acceptable timeframe. This report seeks to take a ‘snapshot look’ at the past season’s logistics and shipping and highlight some of the interesting events and also aims to hone in on some of the prevalent challenges …

Please download the full report: https://t1p.de/absct

Record orange juice prices are expected to escalate orange juice production as growers increase deliveries for processing. Growers are diverting oranges from the export market and local sales towards processing on favorable prices. Good rainfall in the Spring of 2023 ensured sufficient rain for irrigation across all citrus producing regions. Production of all citrus types is expected to improve in both volumes and quality in MY 2023/24. However, the Northern production regions experienced some dry conditions during the growth period which led to smaller sized fruit, reducing the percentage of fruit that meets export specifications. Orange, grapefruit, and lemon exports for MY 2023/24 are revised downwards on smaller fruit size and diversion to local processing …

Please download the full citrus crop production forecast: www.nass.usda.gov

Since December 1, 2021, Alexander John has been strengthening the team of ZIEMANN HOLVRIEKA GmbH, Ludwigsburg as Head of Sales. At the expert for tanks and process technology for the brewing, beverage and liquid food industry, Alexander John will be responsible for sales in Africa. “We are pleased that we were able to win over a brewing technologist with such a profound knowledge of the process and plant industry. Together with him, we will further intensify our activities on this emerging continent. We are convinced that our product and service portfolio is extremely attractive for the given framework conditions there”, says Florian Schneider, Managing Director of Sales and Marketing of ZIEMANN HOLVRIEKA GmbH. For example, on the African continent, other starch sources are often used in addition to the usual raw materials, such as malt, which can be covered in a tailor-made way by the wide range of ZIEMANN HOLVRIEKA’s in-house lautering technologies.

Alexander John is a trained brewer. After graduating as a brewing engineer, John worked as a project engineer and international sales manager for many years. An almost one-year stay in Nigeria for a large brownfield project for a global beverage group strengthened his affinity for the African market. “I am looking forward to supporting the companies in my sales area with my practical knowledge. Together with our customers, we will find the perfect solution for every challenge and plant size”, John summarizes.

Alexander John supports the customers in Africa from the headquarters in Ludwigsburg.

New South African facility will produce sustainable nutrition solutions for consumers across the continent

Kerry, one of the world’s leading taste and nutrition companies, officially opened the largest and most advanced taste manufacturing facility on the African continent. The new EUR 38 m facility is located in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and will produce sustainable nutrition solutions that will be consumed across the African continent.

The new 10,000 m² facility is one of the company’s most environmentally efficient manufacturing sites with numerous sustainability features including low energy usage equipment, solar power generation to reduce consumption from the local grid, waste heat capture and efficient water capture, reuse and reduction.

Kerry is also expanding its Development and Application Centre in Nairobi, Kenya to further support customers in East Africa and the development of sustainable food processing for the continent.

Hazera, a global leader in the seed industry, recently introduced the Polimore, a small, tasty, firm seeded watermelon with an exceptionally long shelf life, to the African market. The hybrid fruit was developed to improve on the local watermelon, whose lack of taste, quality, firmness and disease resistance – plus short shelf life and prohibitive price – resulted in very low market demand.

The easy-to-grow Polimore’s adaptability to African conditions will provide a boon. Its long shelf life benefits all involved in the marketing chain – farmers, distributors and consumers – and enables export to neighboring countries without negative results (consumers can still eat the fruit several days after purchase). The Polimore’s total yield – and the price obtained for the crops – are generally higher than those of the traditional watermelons.

Consumers prefer the taste, size (two to three kilograms), shelf life and reasonable price of the Polimore watermelon to those of the larger ones to which they were accustomed. The growth of consumer demand has shown the growers that the switch to Polimore benefits everyone.