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.
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.
Inviting with their diverse iterations, biscuits are, nevertheless, a delicate business to master. Following careful preparation, the fragile products are thoroughly inspected so that they may begin their journey to the consumer in great condition, and remain that way until snack time. The competition for attention matches their diversity, which is, at the same time, their unique selling point.
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.
Automating bakeware handling saves time and precious human resources. It also ensures that trays, pans and tins are handled exactly as instructed by the tray and coating manufacturers, time and again.
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.
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.