Setexam is a Family-owned business that provides innovative, unique products to the Food, Biotech, Cosmetic, and Pharmaceutical industries.

Our vision is simple. We are seeking to be the leading agar innovator - passionate about providing wholesome, pure and natural agar brands.

To achieve this, we will make every effort to be invest in the latest technology and we will continue to update our daily work organization and endeavour to improve our chain supply at every stage.

The commitment of our team is to meet all the actual needs and to follow up and anticipate your future requests which are of importance to our organization and we want to achieve shared success by working together in partnership with our customers.

We thank you for your support and for your confidence in us.


WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS.
Dr. Rachid LEBBAR.
CEO

                  Ocean mysteries promote scientific development and resources exploitation which is of great importance to the world's economic and scientific development. Some of these marine resources are the seaweeds. This biomass richness is selectively spread in all the oceans and in particular on the Atlantic coast of Morocco which constitutes an ideal biotope for the growth of the Gelidium Sesquipedale Species.

To illustrate the developpment and the right exploitation of these resources, Setexam has many achievements in its credit, such as investing in developing a local efficient infrastructure for the harvesting and packaging of Gelidium using special boasts, trained divers, special net drying areas, dedicated warehourses, etc ... as well as implementing an international network for sourcing the best selected quality seaweeds locally and globally.

                  Since its cration in the sixties in field of seaweeds processing, Setexam is making rigorous efforts for the developement of its know-how related to the sustainable exploitation of these marine resources and is able toprocess seaweeds offering several types of agar with different gelling properties, thickening ability, instantaneous dissolution, etc... . This developement of the know-how is translated in opting for the latest, best "State of the Art" technology which consists of modern technology such as an automated system at the production site as well as good manufacturing practices, Management systems : ISO, HACCP, latest information technologies ect... to ensure continuous efficient production of the world's purest, highest quality and safe agar products.

The confectionery world :

                  Revolutionary agar has worldwide properties particularly in combination with sugar. It is considered as being the best gelling agent for the production of consistent gelling confectionery with diverse properties such as short texture, bright aspect, clear cut and a unique flavour release. All of these factors contribute in developing unique versile food recipes.

Setexam was able to expand its range of agar products to achieve higher quality products to enable confectionery companies to take advantage of an exciting new range of products.

Setexam has shaken up the confectionery manufacturing field by conceriving a wide range of gelling agents: Gelagar ® , Setgel ® and Setgum ® which could be used in combination with other hydrocolloids and polyols. This optimises flavour and contibutes to product texture diversification, consistency and bright texture, enhancing thus infinite possibilities.

Dairy and agar : the perfect match

                  Some of the agar characteristics are dissolution properties, high capacity of water retention, bright texture for firm gels, thickening as well as unique hysteresis which allows stabilizing several dairy applications. Agar could replace advantageously and efficiently animal gelatine either in set or stirred yoghurt, in stabilising milk desserts, cream cheese, etc….

Setexam is developing these characteristics to match dairy industry constraints by incorporating high quality products such as Quick Soluble agar®, Setgel® and Setgum® to be solely used in or in combination with other hydrocolloids to enhance a wide range of stabilizers to come up with consumers needs in providing efficient solutions to every single dairy application.

Finest rich assortment
Pastry with agar

                  Bakery products based agar has already access to a large worldwide market with substantial demand for new agar texture properties. Setexam has made great progress to ensure the development of an agar with properties from firm and strong gel to thick fluid solutions, namely “Thixotropic agar”. This high quality functional product provides new solutions for the preparation of thick bright gels which gives a stable texture with a natural mouth feel. Moreover, this innovated product could be used with other hydrocolloids leading to a variety of textures obtaining thus excellent products for filing, icing, glazing, etc … .

Tasty treats: desserts

                  Setexam offers many selective recipes of a highly distinctive taste and mouth feel savoury desserts using agar in many applications as cakes, tortes, pies, tarts, cookies, bread, pastries, cheesecakes, quick and easy recipes, international recipes, holiday recipes, candy recipes and various recipes ideal for any celebration.

Setexam is always seeking to develop new recipes to be added to its innovation list on a regular basis and most of these recipes are displayed with a picture of the finished product which will be helpful for both the baker and the new product developer.

Microbiology applications

                  Centuries of agar use as a solid matrix of culture media for micro-organisms associated with constant research and innovation in terms of new agar grades have led to the improvement of the performance of specific culture media and Setexam is one of the leaders in this undustry. Through it's comprehensive approach, Setexam provides effective answers and solutions for special and routine bactriological laboratory analyses and remains committed to providing the highest quality purified form of agar-agar for uses in bacteriological applications at very competitive rates.

Owing to its high gelling power and it's vegetal origin, Puragar® constitutes a natural non-toxic matrix for the applications of culture media in microbiology and tissue cultures fields, In addition to its limpid solution, clear gel, resistance to autoclaving and its non degradation by enzymes, Puragar extends its application to many other critical scientific disciplines.