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Functional beverage ingredients enable enhanced product development and beverage offerings. Ingredients available can be used to improve or offer sleep, internal radiance, gut health and much more.

Nexira is dedicated to one goal - providing the best innovative natural ingredients to the food, health and nutrition industries. The portfolio includes high quality plant extracts, antioxidants, dietary soluble fibers, and active botanicals for general health and wellness.

The growing demand for non-dairy and vegan products has led to innovative solutions that improve texture, mouthfeel, suspension, flavour, fortification and appearance.

Nexira, a leading expert in natural ingredients and botanical extracts, provides timely solutions for the nutricosmetics industry with its NutriBeauty Range. This range is available in South Africa from SK Chemtrade. NutriBeauty offers nutritional richness for sublime beauty, answering the needs of both manufacturers and consumers.

In April 2021 private equity firm EQT finalised the acquisition of Chr. Hansen’s natural colour division, and subsequently Oterra was born. A new company with a forward- thinking mentality led by an ambitious, relentless, and energetic new team, whose mission was to cement the brand as the world’s leader in innovation and customer service within the natural colours space.

Using careful design and compositional selection, Ashland’s scholarly, cited scientists possess the formulation and process expertise to match polymer architecture, material and physical characteristics to meet the challenges facing the most demanding pharma applications.

With its vision as the first stop for processors and brand owners in the food and beverage manufacturing industry, SK Chemtrade has always been confident and committed to delivering world-class ingredient solutions and formulations to every stage of the manufacturing process.

SK Chemtrade supplies innovative ingredients to manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements in South Africa and its neighbouring countries.

For manufacturers striving to create healthy, enjoyable beverages that meet customer aspirations for health and wellness in their lifestyles, functional additives like botanicals are becoming popular.