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VKA Australia
Eucalypt forest in the Gold Coast hinterland at golden hour.

VKA® Australia

Australian on the bench,
made in Southport.

VKA Australia (AFF-VK Aromatics Int Australia Pty Ltd) is part of VKA, a multinational flavour house with sites in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. In Southport, Queensland, it develops and makes custom flavours for food and beverage makers across Australia and New Zealand, and has operated since 1998. VKA has created flavours since 1971.

Read in one Australian business day. No contract to start.

Why we are here

“Flavour for Australia has to be developed and made in Australia. VKA Australia, since 1998. Made in Southport, Queensland.”

We develop custom flavours for the food and drink of Australia and New Zealand. A flavourist on our Southport team reads every brief within one Australian business day, scopes the fit, and stays with it through development.

We work with you on a new product, a reformulation, a single top-note refinement or a full beverage system, anywhere in Australia and New Zealand. Bring us what you have and what you want it to taste like.

Our flavours are compounded in Southport from raw materials sourced in Australia and overseas.

Our story

VKA Australia, since 1998. Our bench is in Southport.

Spotted gum in an open Gold Coast hinterland paddock at golden hour, the Queensland country behind the Southport bench.
1998

VKA Australia began operating

VKA Australia began operating in 1998, developing flavours for makers in Australia and New Zealand.

Today

An Australian flavour bench

Developed and made in Southport by an Australian team. VKA Australia began operating in 1998, developing custom flavours for makers across Australia and New Zealand.

Two VKA Australia flavourists evaluating smelling strips at the Southport bench.

The founder

Victor Koh.
Where VKA Australia began.

Victor Koh founded VKA Australia in 1998, on one conviction. A flavour house earns its place by listening, formulating and refining until the taste is right for the people it is made for.

The bench is in Southport, and it has been Australian from the first brief.

Our facility

Bench, application kitchen and plant, one Southport site.

The flavour development bench, the application work and the manufacturing plant sit at one site in Southport, Queensland. R&D, applications and manufacturing under the one roof, so a sample that smells right on the bench can be made and shipped from the same address.

A flavourist finishing a panna cotta with passion-fruit and finger-lime gel at the VKA Australia application kitchen.
A wooden bench rack at VKA Southport holding eighteen 30 mL amber sample bottles in three neat rows of six.
A clean section of the VKA Southport finished-goods warehouse with three stretch-wrapped pallets of labelled bottles stacked side by side, a stainless forklift parked beside them.
“That combination is the point.”

VKA Australia

Southport, Queensland

What we hold to

What we hold to.

A VKA Australia flavourist weighing a compound on an analytical balance at the Southport bench.
01

Precision

Every formulation is precise and every batch is consistent.

A GC-MS instrument in the VKA analytical lab, sample vial loaded in the autosampler tray, ready for a flavour-component run.
02

Flavour science

We put real work into research and sensory science, so we understand how flavour behaves in a finished product on a Queensland shelf.

A VKA Australia flavourist at the Southport bench with a notebook and brief, in a quiet working moment.
03

Direct access

Send a brief, get a real flavourist on the line inside one business day. The same flavourist stays on the brief through the development that follows. No contract to start the conversation.

A QC inspector at the VKA Southport plant checking a labelled finished-goods bottle against the spec sheet on a clipboard.
04

Documentation

Component and allergen breakdowns support your regulatory team's review of pack claims.

The Australian team

The team behind the Southport bench.

The VKA Australia team works across flavour development, application, regulatory, commercial and operations.

Three VKA Australia flavourists in a working huddle around a prototype sample bottle at the Southport bench.

How we work

How we work with you.

Four plain steps, from brief to supply. Flavour creation, applications and manufacturing in Southport draw on VKA's sensory and stability testing capabilities.

A flavourist's hand sketching a target profile on a flavour wheel diagram beside an open brief at the VKA Southport bench.
01

Read the brief

Send us your application, target profile, format, regulatory context and timeline. A real flavourist on our team reads it inside one Australian business day and replies.

A VKA Australia flavourist pipetting essence from an amber bottle at the Southport compounding bench.
02

Formulate

Our flavourists build a profile to match the brief, using flavour creation and VKA's sensory science.

A VKA Australia flavourist holding a smelling strip to the nose, evaluating a prototype at the Southport bench.
03

Test and refine

Application trials in Southport, supported by VKA's sensory panels and stability testing. We iterate until the flavour is right in the finished product.

Filled and labelled flavour bottles moving along the capping line at the VKA Southport plant, ready for finished-goods packing.
04

Make and ship

Production-ready specifications, documentation aligned to the Food Standards Code, ongoing QA support from the same Southport site. Same taste, every batch.

Where we work

Australia and New Zealand,
from one Southport site.

VKA Australia is based in Southport, Queensland. The bench, the people, the samples and the plant all sit here. We serve you across Australia and New Zealand from this one address.

A Queensland cane paddock near Bundaberg at late golden hour, long warm light across the rows, a working Australian landscape behind the Southport bench.

Southport, Queensland

VKA Australia. Bench, applications, plant.

Developed and made in Southport by an Australian team. VKA Australia has served food and beverage makers across Australia and New Zealand since 1998.

Bring us a brief

Send us a brief.

New product or reformulation, a top-note refinement or a full beverage system. Send what you have. A real flavourist on our Southport team reads it inside one Australian business day. No contract to start the conversation.

Read in one Australian business day. No contract to start.