With a highly skilled team of Food Scientists, we can bring your idea to life, from Concept to Launch. We are here to assist our customers in keeping up to date with market trends and our all-in-one compounds contain the complete basket of key ingredients to make your complex idea a simple reality.

We are proud to represent Vitablend. Vitablend provides innovative nutritional premixes for fortification of food products including ingredients like vitamins, minerals, nucleotides, amino-acids and other functional ingredients. Vitablend has a portfolio of major customers within the food industry, infant nutrition, clinical nutrition, sport drinks and nutritional drinks.

We work with leading global suppliers of botanical extracts and nutraceuticals. We source, stock and deliver the best clinically researched ingredients for the dietary supplement, sport nutrition and functional food and beverage markets in South Africa.

Through our proud, long-standing partnership with International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) we offer a wide selection of liquid flavours, emulsions, powder and savoury flavours.

We can offer whipping agents and aerating emulsifiers, spray-dried powders, salt reducers, yeast extracts and lecithin.

Through our proud association with Oterra, the world’s largest natural food colour manufacturer, we can offer the food and beverage industry in Southern Africa access to the widest portfolio of natural food colours in the industry.

We are proud to work with SONAC on their range of functional animal proteins for the meat industry.

We can offer a range of modulation technologies and sweetener blends.

Ashland Life Sciences advances drug delivery with an unparalleled range of excipients, and longstanding polymer expertise and technical support that enable sophisticated science-based solutions for today’s drug formulation challenges.

Combining a wealth of experience in flavours, natural ingredients and functionality into formulations. This offers customers a point of differentiation on shelf.

The Innovations Centre hosts expert food scientists. Formulations are designed faster and application samples are tested sooner. This results in speedier product launches.

The team works in an open-door environment. Everyone is involved in a brief. This fosters open dialogue and brainstorming. The team is encouraged to be open and share ideas.

Customers simply choose a concept they like. A dedicated and bespoke formulation to requirement and / or a premix is then formulated. This offers short lead times and concept to launch capability within weeks.

Blends and compound premixes take the hassle out of procuring numerous ingredients. A blend of ingredients can include flavours, colours, botanical extracts, sweeteners and modulators.

SK stocks single ingredients where customers choose to control all aspects of their production in-house.

SK Chemtrade represents world leaders in flavours, vitamin premixes, natural colourants, salt and sugar reduction solutions, cellulose ethers, botanical extracts, and nutraceuticals. Partners are enthusiastic to work in Africa, sharing trends shaping the international food and beverage category. International knowledge and expertise is incorporated into formulations for customers.

SK Chemtrade’s small-scale bottling plant offers customers the benefits of small runs – ideal for SMEs on a tight budget who need to bottle a small quantity of their beverages and offer them to a niche or specialist food store.

The bottling facility can also support large scale manufacturers or retailers in testing new variants or limited release launches.