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Palestine• Hebron

Khalil Al-Rahman Pasta and Food Products Co. was founded in 1976 in Hebron to supply the local market with high-quality macaroni, spaghetti and vermicelli, marketed under the Bravo brand. The company runs modern production lines; the Hebron Chamber of Commerce and Industry directory says it covers about 35% of local market demand, hopes to export to neighbouring countries and has spare production capacity. It is based in the Al-Hawwaz area of Hebron.

Morocco• Skhirat

KENZPAT is a subsidiary of Morocco's Vita Holding and operates a pasta and couscous plant in Skhirat that cost 200 million dirhams (about US$19 million). Annual capacity is 15,000 tonnes of couscous and 23,000 tonnes of pasta, and the plant created 130 direct jobs. The group's other companies cover the grain chain: Kenz Maroc (flour milling and semolina), Vita Grain (grain trading and storage) and Vita Dis (distribution). Press reports say the project targets the local market and export opportunities.

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Morocco• Berrechid

On the Africa Feed and Food site, Kayna Group's pasta and couscous activity lists the brands KAYNA, NOR'DAR, MACHKOURA, KHOULALA and DELLA MAMA. The site describes a 2-hectare plant using Italian technology. The site lists FSSC 22000, Kosher certification from the Orthodox Union and FDA registration for the US market.

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UAE• Dubai

Intelligent Foods is a B2B food production partner in the UAE whose website offers handcrafted Italian pasta made to order for retail, foodservice, hospitality and distribution brands. Its services include private and white label manufacturing, custom recipe development, packaging and label design and new product development, with low minimum order quantities as it states. The company states that its facility is HACCP certified.

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Turkey• Gaziantep

HAK Makarna is a Gaziantep-based Turkish brand that presents itself as carrying an Anatolian flavour heritage into the future with modern production. It runs the wheat-to-semolina-to-pasta chain with fully automated Italian-technology systems and a daily wheat processing capacity of 450 tons. Its brands are Altınbaşak, Zenova, Bavetta and Pasta La Parma, and its products include spaghetti, cut pasta, semolina, flour and whole wheat pasta. It lists ISO 9001, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000 and Halal certifications. It states that it exports to over 70 countries across Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

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Pakistan

Golden Foods is a Pakistani company that describes itself on its website as a leading manufacturer of premium quality pasta and other food products since 1999. Its products include pasta, macaroni and spaghetti. The site presents the company as a manufacturer and does not state a detailed address, certifications or export markets.

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Mauritania• Nouakchott

Les Grands Moulins de Mauritanie describes itself as the first mill in the country since 2001. In 2016 it inaugurated a pasta plant with a long-pasta line and launched Pasta Prima, which the brand site calls the first pasta and spaghetti brand made in Mauritania; in 2017 a short-pasta line was added, doubling plant capacity. Each of the long and short pasta units has a capacity of 50 tonnes a day; products are sold on the local market and for export, with wholesalers and bakers as the main customers. The brand lists Spaghetti 500 g, Macaroni, Torti 500 g, Vermicelles, Gros Coudes and Plombs. The plant is in the Zone Industrielle du Wharf, Nouakchott, with a Pasta Prima sales centre on Avenue de l'Espoir.

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Yemen• Taiz (Al-Hawban)

General Industries & Packages Company (Genpack) is a diversified industries and packing materials company established in 1983 as part of the Hayel Saeed Anam Group in Yemen. Its page on the group website lists its products as chocolates, sweets, pasta, light food, misc. presses and printing of the Holy Quran. The email crm@genpackhsa.com is given as a contact channel, while its own site genpackhsa.com is still under construction.

Fiorella for Macaroni and Foodstuff was founded in Syria in 1994 and has been making pasta products ever since. Its website says the factory uses highly modern, automated equipment that keeps human hands off the product from raw-material preparation through packaging, describes it as one of Syria's most sophisticated pasta factories in organization, safety and health standards, and states the company exports its production.

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Algeria• Bordj Bou Arreridj

Extra Benhamadi operates through Gerbior Mills (SARL GERBIOR), located on R.N. No. 5 in Lachbour, Bordj Bou Arreridj, which the company describes as a reference since its launch in 2002 for quality semolina and flour. It states that it runs the first fully automated production unit in Algeria, stresses careful wheat selection, and serves both household consumers and professional clients across Algeria. Its range includes couscous, short and long pasta, specialty pasta, whole grain products, a premium series, flour and semolina.

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Lebanon• Baissour

Del Libano describes its product as pasta made in Lebanon by Lebanese hands to the finest standards using high-protein Lebanese durum wheat, dried naturally for 10 to 18 hours without industrial additives. The factory is in the Industrial Zone, Hirsh El Assi, Baissour. Source records (Berytech) describe it as the first automated Lebanese pasta factory, commissioned in 2021, and list spaghetti, lasagna, tagliatelle, fusilli, penne and whole-wheat pasta.

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Iraq• Erbil (Shamamk)

DAS Food Industries describes itself as producing a wide range of products across several state-of-the-art factories, and calls itself one of the largest food producers in the region, aiming to build a rich food basket across Iraq and the Middle East. The site gives 2020. The official site confirms pasta production; the company's range also includes flour, bulgur and biscuits according to the source record.