In addition to marking on glass and hard plastics, the lasers can deliver high-resolution, permanent codes on flexible film, foil, labels, paperboard, and other packaging.

If there’s one thing the last few months have shown us, it’s that business-as-usual can be uprooted without warning.

The secondary packaging machine is suitable for snack, bakery, and other applications.

Gamers and friends were invited to play atop Magic-themed playmats and taste-test the IHOP's new mana inspired pancake partnership, on the house.

Acquisition enhances Batory Foods’ logistical efficiency with the addition of strategically located cold storage warehouse.

Global flavors and fragrances company inspires industry to lean into flavor trends at upcoming show in Las Vegas from October 23–27.

Global packaging business TricorBraun has appointed Susan Bergethon as senior vice president and general counsel, effective immediately.

Austrian start-up Selectum and Swiss technology group Bühler have jointly created a new, healthy snack category: small, crunchy wafer pillows with a creamy dip inside.

Bimbo QSR has selected TraceGains as its system of choice to automate supply chain operations.

An equipment update is helping to bring the artisan bread company into the modern age.

Junior's announced that its new Oreo Cheesecake, a partnership with Mondelēz, the maker of Oreos, is now on the shelves in grocery stores across the country.

Maker of gluten-free and plant-based breads and bakery products, Little Northern Bakehouse is debuting Sweet Hawaiian Wide Slide bread which adds flavorful variety to their top-selling line of full-size loaves.

Fat ingredients play multiple roles in sweet goods like pastries.

Fat and oils are important functional ingredients that can also impact the nutritional profile in snack and bakery products. 

With cost-effective low usage levels and high stability performance, this kosher, vegan, and halal-certified shade can be used in snack seasonings, bakery products, frostings and decorative coatings, breadings, and more.

SOMOS is now available at retailers nationwide including select Albertsons, Sprout's, Kroger, Meijer, and more.

Beginning in April, the company's eco-friendly tortilla chips will hit shelves in Sprouts' Innovation Centers.

Launched last year in convenience stores across the U.S. and Europe, Chipoys is now setting its sights on continued nationwide expansion as it grows in popularity and adds to its product offerings.

Formulating products with the ever-increasing demands of today’s marketplace is no easy task.

Fats, oils, starches, fiber, dough conditioners and texturizers all serve critical functional roles in snacks and baked goods, particularly maintaining the quality of the product throughout the desired shelf life. As consumers demand cleaner labels, more health-and-wellness benefits and better sustainability, product developers face a wide range of functional ingredient challenges.

To pizza and flatbread manufacturers, the secret to a great product goes way beyond the sauce. So what are the trends?

Rick Anderson is named president of the Elk Grove Village, IL, contract manufacturer of custom-made frozen food products.

Genio’s Uncured Pepperoni Pizza is handmade in Italy using ingredients such as locally grown tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, hand torn Ligurian basil, and uncured pepperoni.

Heavenly Waffles aims to give morning meals tastier BFY options.

The brand aims for the sweet spot between better-for-you and indulgence.

Bread is often fortified with dietary fiber of various origins to meet “good” and “excellent” source-of-fiber claims. 

The Minnetonka, Minn.-based food solutions and potassium chloride supplier strikes a deal with Barentz Europe B.V., which is present in 26 countries in Europe, to distribute its Advanced Formula potassium chloride to food manufacturers in Europe. Nu-Tek says that governments in the U.K. and the Netherlands are close to making mandatory rules regarding sodium levels in food products with the aim to reduce high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

Every year, as the holidays come to a close and resolutions kick in, many Americans vow to lose weight. Despite their best wishes, there’s no reset button on holiday excess, and therefore nearly half of Americans admit to committing to a diet but failing after just six months.

Lest anyone think that the pandemic pressed "pause" on campaigns for corporate sustainability, think again. If anything, COVID-19 reminded consumers, and the snack and bakery sectors, just how interconnected we are, whether we’re selecting suppliers, expanding production, or packing a protein bar into our gym bags.

The items include Cinnabon churros, Auntie Anne’s pretzels, and Subway cookies.

Diamond of California, the century-old producer of “Made for Homemade” specialty nuts, has announced the launch of a new chocolate flavor, of their ready-to-use Nut Pie Crusts, available now on both store shelves nationwide, and online with Amazon. 

Angel Shelton Willis will join the company's executive leadership team and report to CEO Carlos-Abrams Rivers.

Ease of cleaning, maintenance and access, as well as the ability to produce a wider variety of items, are among the top desires of companies looking to purchase dough laminators and sheeters for production of snack foods and baked goods.

Unique Pretzel Bakery astutely combines equal measures of Pennsylvania Dutch tradition and modern-day innovation to catalyze its success.

Congratulations to CHEEZ-IT, our 2022 Snack Producer of the Year!

Hostess Brands, Inc., a  sweet snacking company, announced as part of its recent successful Investor Day presentation that it has redesigned and modernized its corporate brand identity in collaboration with New York-based brand design agency CBX.

Improved weight accuracy, high-speed production, flexibility and easy sanitation are just some of dynamics bakers are looking for in depositors, dividers and rounders.

Upcoming film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse themed packaging will be on select Tastykake items in conjunction with a National “Swing into Tastykake” Sweepstakes.

The ADVANCE generation of Fagor Industrial ovens has one of the widest ranges of ovens on the market in terms of sizes and features, including the choice of gas or electric for all sizes and options. 

This article examines current and emerging trends in flavors and colors in snack and bakery production.

ROSS recently launched a new video featuring the benchtop High Shear Mixer Model HSM-100LCI-T, the company's most popular laboratory mixer.

Snack and bakery companies that work with dough, or looser components like batters, fillings or toppings, turn to manufacturers of depositors, dividers and rounders to cut, divide, portion and round or mould their products—and the equipment continues to get faster, more accurate, more customizable and easier to clean, among other winning qualities.

MAMMOETH, the first fully servo-controlled dough divider is the result of the Blue Innovation Centre, an open innovation model in which WP Haton engineers develop machines together with customers and suppliers.

The advanced MULTIMATIC dough divider and moulding machine is now suitable for an even more versatile range of applications.

Sanitation, automation, efficiency, speed, ease of cleaning, the ability to handle larger capacities, and the ability to produce clean label-foods are among the top priorities for snack food and baked goods makers seeking to purchase dividers, depositors and rounders.

Snack and bakery customers in the market for dough-handling equipment like dividers, depositors, and rounders are looking for versatility, greater precision, higher capacity, longer maintenance intervals, adjustability of qualities like width and weight, and machines that can handle natural, clean-label, and gluten-free products.

Snack food and wholesale bakery manufacturers in the market for dividers, depositors and rounders have a long list of considerations. These include automation, reliability, scalability, integration, flexibility, communication, customization, ease of maintenance and sanitation, and different packaging capabilities, according to companies that produce such machines.

The California Raisin Marketing Board has released a new white paper spotlighting the functional benefits and opportunities for California-grown raisins and raisin ingredients as a fat replacer in baked goods.

Michael Freitas Finete has taken the helm as president and chief executive officer of SupHerb Farms, an agriculture-based business.

EnWave Corp. announced that it has signed an Equipment Purchase Agreement with Dole Worldwide Food & Beverage Group to supply a 120kW Radiant Energy Vacuum dehydration processing line that will materially increase Dole’s vacuum-microwave processing capabilities.