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Ensuring the utmost product safety is not only cost-saving, but also good business, as it’s a certain way to ensure a delicate and vital resource: a brand’s reputation.
Ensuring the utmost product safety is not only cost-saving, but also good business, as it’s a certain way to ensure a delicate and vital resource: a brand’s reputation.
In 2024, Lesaffre celebrates 50 years of its Baking Centerâ„¢ concept, with a network of 51 dedicated application centers around the world. Throughout the year, Baking Centerâ„¢ teams around the world will be celebrating the anniversary with customers and partners.
At iba, SENSURE is showcasing its vision inspection solutions (STARGATE series), which use high-speed, non-contact imaging cameras and/or profilometer lasers to quantify a wide range of product quality parameters (shape, size, color, height, topping coverage, volume, etc.) at high speed. All solutions provide continuous and quantitative data that can be used to identify process issues and create a library of information for analysis.
Energy consumption is undisputed at the top of the industry’s concerns and efforts for improvement. Royal Kaak recently launched a new service that closely investigates the energy-saving potential of an industrial oven, which can help lower energy consumption by up to 15%: the OvenScan, launched last year and introduced in the Benelux countries in 2023.
Wooden Bakery of Lebanon has maintained the product quality its customers are accustomed to, throughout several, sometimes overlapping challenges over the years. To cope with the latest struggles due to material availability, the use of flour and dough rheology technologies has helped the business manage flour quality.
KPM Analytics acquired Smart Vision Works, a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) providing computer vision systems for agriculture and food industries. Smart Vision Works is well known for its AI and edge computing technologies, used to sort products and detect foreign materials in the food production processes.
Lesaffre inaugurated its first Baking Center in Jordan, at the end of November 2022. This is also the company’s 50th Baking Center. The first one opened its doors in 1974.
Lesaffre Australia Pacific opened two new facilities in mid-November: a Molasses Extracts Plant (MEP) on its production site in Melbourne and a training showroom for breadmaking at its Baking Centerâ„¢ in Mortlake (Sydney).
Minebea Intec, Hamburg, the German part of MinebeaMitsumi, a globally operating group (annual sales revenues EUR 7.3 billion), specializes in
The Lesaffre yeast group has established a Baking Center in the Vienna-Neudorf industrial zone on the southern outskirts of the Austrian capital city.

