At Directus we have an expert, global knowledge when it comes to the food and beverage industry, and over 40 years of experience backing us. With offices around the Asia-Pacific Rim in Hong Kong, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, we supply ingredients and finished products to numerous great companies around the world. We also have the ability to provide process and pack technologies, along with product innovation and development.
The key areas we operate in are:
Food Ingredients
Finished Products
Machinery
Market Knowledge & Innovation

Supplier of novel ingreients for food, beverage and dietary supplements.
Fibafit (NZ apple fibre)
Amino acids for sports nutrition
A comprehesive range of vitamins and vitamin premixes
Minerals and mineral premixes
Mineral yeasts
Botanical extracts
– Plant antioxidants
– Astaxanthin
– Lutein
– Carotenoids
– Mushroom powders
Organic plant and fruit powders
Enzynmes
Probiotics
Micro-Algae
Marine products
Natural Sweeteners

We have a New Product Development lab for rapid prototyping and formulation development.

Tate & Lyle have been making extraordinary food ingredients for over 150 years. Our portfolio includes Modified & Clean Label Starches, Soluble fibres, Nutritive and Non-nutritive sweeteners, Maltodextrins and Corn Syrup Solids, Crystalline Fructose, Locust bean gum, Customised functional ingredient blends. Our brands – CLARIA® Clean label starches, TASTEVA® Stevia Sweetener, SPLENDA® Sucralose, PUREFRUIT™ Monk Fruit Extract, PROMITOR® Soluble Corn Fibre, STA-LITE® Polydextrose, KRYSTAR® Fructose, HAMULSION® and HAMULTOP® Stabiliser Systems. Exclusive distributors for Sweet Green Fields Stevia extracts, JRS® Dietary Fibres, Sunett® Acesulfame K & Nutrinova Sorbates. SPLENDA® is a trademark – Heartland Consumer Products LLC. Sunett® is a trademark – Celanese Corporation. “Tate & Lyle – Making Food Extraordinary” www.tateandlyle.com

Importer and supplier of a comprehensive range of functional food ingredients and chemicals to the New Zealand food and dairy industries. Our portfolio includes acidulants, antioxidants, bulking agents, minerals, phosphates, preservatives, stabilisers, starches and sweeteners. These ingredients are suitable for applications in baked goods, beverages, confectionery, dairy, nutritional products, processed meats, snack foods, spreads and wine. With an expansive storage and distribution network and the ability to supply critical ingredients to our customers on a “Just in Time” basis, Interchem is the essential component to any sourcing and supply strategy.

Sherratt Ingredients are a locally owned and operated company that has been serving New Zealand food manufacturers since 1986. We provide custom solutions and trusted ingredients from leading global ingredient companies to New Zealand food manufacturers. Our focus is on bringing together the knowledge and expertise of our local team and overseas partners to help food manufacturers in New Zealand succeed.

This is facilitated through strong values and relationships, excellent service and a marketing leading product development and manufacturing facilities based in Auckland.