Building a green brand
Green branding is a challenge, even for the baking industry. For credible green brand management, bakeries must take comprehensive and holistic measures in all areas of the company.
LIBRARY ARTICLES
Solving unexpected quality issues in baked goods
It is a recurrent issue well-known in food processing companies: sometimes, a product that has been successfully manufactured over a long period of time suddenly exhibits a quality problem, although nothing has been intentionally changed.
AAK opens Plant-based Innovation Center of Excellence
AAK opened a new Plant-based Innovation Center of Excellence in Zaandijk, outside Amsterdam, in the presence of customers, investors, and local officials, who also took a guided tour of the premises. The three story facility features an application laboratory, co-development workspaces, a culinary kitchen, and a sensory facility.
Fresh off the drawing board: Unifiller cake lines
Consumers are not just hungry for any cakes, but are seeking diversity and sensory experiences in their choices. The technology behind baking such options needs more flexibility.
Australian wheat in the SE Asian bread market
While the SE Asian bread market was a key focus for the project, from the start it was recognized that the study of dough development through mixing and processing would have wider implications and offer new opportunities for bread-making throughout the world.
bbi-2019-05-Automatically topping sandwich slices
The VEMAG Slice Depositor made by the US-American company Reiser can automatically top sandwich slices with chicken salad, peanut butter,
bbi-2019-04-A marketplace of innovation (Aasted excerpt)
At booth 7469, Aasted, Farum/Denmark, will present a wide range of process technologies ranging from dough forming to adding value to products with chocolate decorations or enrobing. The exhibits also include the new Alice™ II, the next generation of extruder as well as the Alice™ High-speed wire cutter, which is even more refined, faster and easier to use.
Precision, safety and security
Bakers weigh out their raw materials by the shovelful – that may have been true in earlier centuries, but nowadays surveillance authorities and raw materials prices both equally ensure that weighing, monitoring and subsequent analyses accompany the entire production process.
BRC Version 8 – what’s new?
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) published Version 8 of the Global Standard for Food Safety Issues in August 2018 – this version comes into force in February 2019.
