5 Exhibitors to Visit at SIAL China - Asia's Food Marketplace 2027

Multivac Laraon india (P) Ltd. operates under the Multivac group, a manufacturer of packaging systems headquartered in Wolfertschwenden, Germany, with a broad portfolio spanning thermoforming packaging machines, traysealing equipment, vacuum packaging, and labeling systems for food and non-food applications. The Indian entity serves as the group's presence in the South Asian market, connecting regional food producers and processors to Multivac's global machine range.

Multivac's equipment is used across fresh meat, poultry, dairy, bakery, and ready-meal categories, with machines configured for both high-volume continuous production and flexible short-run formats. The group maintains service and spare-parts infrastructure across multiple countries, a consideration for buyers evaluating total cost of ownership and uptime requirements in Asian manufacturing environments.

FrieslandCampina Ingredients North America, Inc. is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey and operates as part of Royal FrieslandCampina N.V., a farmer-owned cooperative with roots dating to 1871. The ingredients division employs roughly 3,250 people globally and supplies dairy proteins, whey isolates, caseinates, lactoferrin, and galacto-oligosaccharide prebiotics to manufacturers across sports nutrition, early life, medical, and functional food and beverage categories.

The division's Veghel facility in the Netherlands is the largest producer of caseinates in the world and houses large-scale lactoferrin and whey protein concentrate installations. More than 14,000 member dairy farmers underpin a fully traceable supply chain from farm to finished ingredient. A 650-person R&D organisation, based primarily at Wageningen with a pilot factory and precision fermentation lab, supports application development across the product portfolio, which includes the 60-year-old Biotis GOS prebiotic franchise, one of the most clinically researched prebiotic ingredients available.

Marchesini Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH is the German branch of Marchesini Group S.p.A., headquartered in Pianoro, Bologna, Italy, where the group was founded in 1974 by Massimo Marchesini. The group employs approximately 3,000 people worldwide and reported turnover of around 600 million euros in 2023/2024. Its product scope spans complete packaging lines for pharmaceutical and cosmetics producers, covering stickpack machines, tube-filling equipment, monobloc filling and capping systems, turbo-emulsifiers, and the full Beauty Division portfolio under brands including Axomatic, Dumek, Cosmatic, Rejves, V2 Engineering, and Vibrotech.

All production is based in Italy and coordinated from the Bologna headquarters, which oversees R&D, sales, and after-sales globally. The group sells into more than 116 countries, with exports representing roughly 85 percent of total sales. A Shanghai trading subsidiary supports the China and Hong Kong market, having placed over 800 units across Southeast Asia in the past decade. A dedicated Customer Portal provides predictive maintenance services for installed lines, and the German branch in Viersen offers local spare-parts and on-site technical support for Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Bord Bia is Ireland's state agency for food, drink, and horticulture trade development, established by act of the Irish parliament in 1994 and headquartered in Dublin. It supports more than 1,400 Irish export companies across a network of 15 international offices, providing market access, buyer introductions, and promotion for products including grass-fed Irish beef, hormone-free Irish pork, and Irish dairy.

Bord Bia operates Origin Green, the world's only state-led national sustainability programme, in which participating farms and factories undergo independent audits every 18 months. In 2024, a record 110 Irish companies achieved Gold Membership. For pork specifically, the agency backs a 100% DNA traceability system that traces each shipment to the individual farm, factory, and gene. Ireland's island geography provides a natural biosecurity barrier, and the country has recorded zero cases of African Swine Fever.

Food Export USA - Northeast is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit State Regional Trade Group (SRTG) founded in 1973 and designated by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. It represents the pooled agricultural promotion agencies of 10 Northeastern states, covering Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Its programs help U.S. small and mid-sized food and agricultural companies launch and expand export sales across more than 40 countries.

The organization is one of only four USDA-FAS-designated SRTGs in the country, giving it access to Market Access Program (MAP) funding. That funding underpins the Branded Program, which reimburses eligible U.S. suppliers 50% of qualifying international marketing costs including advertising, retail and foodservice promotions, and trade-show travel. Complementary services include Buyers Missions that bring pre-qualified international importers to vetted U.S. suppliers, Distributor Development Services for finding and vetting overseas import partners, and Food Show PLUS, which provides on-site in-market representative support for U.S. companies exhibiting inside the USA Pavilion.