MARAP HandelsgesmbH

MARAP HandelsgesmbH was founded in 1999, and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
In the form of the KRESTO, BIO-LEBEN, LIFESTYLE ORGANIC, BIO-LOGISCH and PEARLS OF SAMARKAND brands, the highly motivated MARAP team has set itself the goal of offering its customers worldwide only the very best, most choice products in a healthy, top-class, premium quality.

Over the past decade, we have advanced from a position of trader of conventional foodstuffs to become a specialist processor for high-quality organic foods.

We do not use artificial additives, colouring agent or flavour enhancers.  Everything about Marap and Marap UK is highest quality organic, vegetarian and often vegan.

Our own state of the art production companies enable the implementation of our ideas pertaining to product quality and consistency of all goods even during the primary production stage.

The latest logistics, international purchasing and reliable producers all over the world guarantee the best possible customer service. We currently distribute our products in 28 countries worldwide.

In the UK, our business development partners, Pride in Food Ltd look after our sales, co-ordinate our logistics and give general executive help and support to Marap as we work to ensure a continual supply of innovative organic, vegetarian and vegan products, giving you more choice for your healthy lifestyle.

RAW MATERIAL

We only process and trade in products which comply with the strict requirements of our quality assurance system.

The main products in our range are nuts, dried fruits, seeds and pulses in both organic and conventional (not organic) quality. We supply many renowned processors in the food industry and modern packaging plants worldwide.

QUALITY

Our company has been qualified according to IFS for years, and continually keeps on further developing the quality management.

Our objective is to produce safe food of the highest quality without any risks for consumers and processors. In order to attain this, we have increasingly invested in product safety for repeated tasks and always have powerful machinery in use for the elimination of risks.

• Disinfestation All the organic foodstuffs processed in our facilities and several endangered conventional (not organic) foodstuffs are immediately disinfested following arrival.

To do this, any pests – especially the tiniest larvae and eggs – are naturally destroyed in special chambers by the application of pressure and CO2, without the use of any chemicals or food toxins.
This application does not leave behind any traces; hence, it can be used according to the EU Organic regulations 834/2007 and 889/2008 without any risk.

• Laser cleaning We use the latest hi-tech cleaning systems in order to clear raw materials – which are already very clean when they come to us – of practically all foreign bodies such as pieces of shell, pips, stalks and stems, stones, glass, seeds of weeds, etc.
  
  This time-intensive and costly stage enables us to make products for the processing industry and for the wholesale and retail trades with the highest degree of purity and product safety.
  
  

• Chopping and mixing We use extravagant recipes to produce homogenous dry food mixtures such as nut and dried fruit mixtures, convenience food mixtures based on rice and cereals, etc. on the most up-to-date mixing equipment.
  This is complemented by a chopping system with the most up-to-date milling technology with connected filter, where we can produce products in the sizes 0 to 8 mm.