Gulfood Manufacturing 2026: Three Days in Dubai Focused on Powders, Processes, and New Markets

From November 3 to 5, the Dubai World Trade Center hosted Gulfood Manufacturing 2026, the trade show dedicated to technologies, machinery, and services for the food and beverage industry. For us at NTE Process, it was an intense three days spent at Booth S2-C22 engaging with manufacturers, designers, and distributors.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to visit us: every conversation helped us better understand how the needs of the food industry are evolving.

Trade Show Statistics

According to the organizers, this year’s edition brought together over 2,500 exhibitors from more than 80 countries and over 80,000 industry professionals, featuring a three-day FoodTech Summit focused on supply chains, production efficiency, artificial intelligence, and automation.

Why this matters to us

Gulfood Manufacturing is the trade show for those who build and operate processing plants, bringing together companies from many sectors—from packaging to ingredients to the supply chain. In nearly all of these sectors, the raw material is a powder or granule: flours, grains, legumes, dairy powders, and functional ingredients.

Behind every product is a production line that must transport, dose, mix, grind, dry, and package. And there is a market that demands ever-greater consistency in quality, safety, and sustainability.

What We Presented

At our booth, we highlighted our approach as a single-source partner for the food industry, offering integrated solutions for managing and optimizing production processes:

• Advanced pneumatic mixing, for homogeneous and repeatable blends even with products of different specific gravities and particle sizes.
• Dense-phase pneumatic conveying, featuring the patented Eco Dense-Tronic® solution, which uses artificial intelligence to control speed and the air-to-product ratio, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing energy consumption.
• Precision ingredient dosing, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and rapid in-line product changeovers.
• Grinding and micro-dosing, with applications dedicated to protein shifting and spice grinding.
• Drying and spray drying, to address various production stages and raw materials with different characteristics.

Three Takeaways

1. Look at the demand, not just the supply. Talking to manufacturers means understanding how ingredients, formats, and specifications are changing—and what impact these changes have on the upstream production process.
2. Before investing, you want to test it out. Every powder behaves differently in terms of flowability, moisture content, and abrasiveness. That’s why it’s important to be able to test your product under real-world conditions before choosing a component or a system.
3. A hub for new markets. Dubai serves as a gateway to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—markets where demand for processed foods and local production capacity is central to many companies’ strategies.

What We Do

NTE Process designs “turnkey” process solutions for powders and granules: from pneumatic conveying to mixing (including solid-liquid), from atomization to drying, from grinding to packaging, all the way to filtration and emissions control. We serve the food industry and many other sectors, with the goal of making plants more efficient, cleaner, and more reliable.

At our Scientific Hub, we conduct 1:1-scale tests on the customer’s product to mitigate risks before investment.

Let’s talk! If you weren’t able to stop by our booth, or if you’d like to learn more about what you saw in Dubai, our team is here to help.