Nagaad Gums & Resins

Nagaad Resins and Gums (Nagaad Gums) is an authentic Social Enterprise business that “works with the communities and for the communities”. It is the communities that have the greatest knowledge of the harvesting and handling of the resins and gums. Working with the communities means Nagaad Gums is the only company of its kind in the whole Eastern Africa region to handle and process to the final product a wide variety of resins and gums extracted from naturally growing and organic wild forest trees. Working for the communities means the communities are the real resin and gum producers and they benefit in multiple ways from a product that is locally collected and manufactured into a valuable commodity. With licenses to collect resins and gums from all regions of Eastern Africa, Nagaad Gums has already centralised its operations by constructing one processing factory in Kenya to serve the Eastern African region. The factory utilizes state of the art technologies and is equipped with in house EU accredited laboratory facilities which carry out the requisite tests and analysis to ensure high quality products that meet and even surpass international standards. A second processing factory is in the planning for Somalia. The laboratory equipment installed in the Nagaad Gums facility is GC/MS, FID and is uniquely designed to suit the processing of 100% pure essential oils. The methods of extraction employed include steam and hydro distillation as well as combined steam distillation. The efficiency and flexibility of Nagaad Gums plant facilities is changing the dynamics of resin and gum supply in Eastern Africa.