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MIWE America celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Middlesex, New Jersey. Spanning 15,000 square feet, the new facility features a MIWE live baking center, the MIWE America technical center, and a warehouse.
Dawn Foods hired Kristi Kangas as Senior Vice President of North America Manufacturing Operations, reporting to John Schmitz, Chief Operating Officer.
Bundy Baking Solutions announced leadership changes: William (Bill) Bundy is now the Chief Executive Officer, as of January 5, 2026, while Gilbert Bundy assumed the role of Chairman.
Samuel Schär started the year with a new role, as CEO of Bühler. He succeeds Stefan Scheiber, who is being proposed as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors.
dsm-firmenich announced ‘Frosted Star Anise’ as its Flavor of the Year for 2026, drawing from the Pantone Color of the Year 2026: ‘PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer’. The lofty white hue inspired dsm-firmenich to elevate both an ingredient and a feeling as the 2026 Flavor of the Year.
Lesaffre expanded its existing Baking Center™ in Shanghai with new, state-of-the-art industrial production lines, aimed at providing technical support and solutions to industrial bakers in the Chinese market.
Two popular baking books by wheat expert Prof. Dr. Friedrich Longin are now available in a single volume, compiled in English and offered as a free download. The volume combines two books previously published in German.
Whether lowering ingredients such as sugar
or salt, or adding others – fibers, proteins, or more,
reformulating products for a better nutritional profile essentially means creating a new product with its own optimum processing parameters.
For most consumers, bread is ‘flour, yeast, salt’. Professionals know better:
between 50 – 60% of a bread dough, by mass, is water.
And how you can address them at your facility.
A vacuum may usually be understood as a space entirely devoid of any matter, but it’s quite the opposite of emptiness when it comes to vacuum technology in bakery.
Tartlets are a growth driver for Swiss pastry
manufacturer HUG. The increase in demand is also
linked to the shortage of skilled workers in the catering
and bakery sectors.

COFALEC
Founded in 1959, COFALEC (Confederation of European Yeast Producers) has 47 members, which represent almost the entire sector. The European yeast industry is the world leader with a 35% share of world production.

Coperion
Coperion’s brands – Baker Perkins, Bakon, Coperion K-Tron, Diosna, Gabler, Kemutec, Peerless, Shaffer, Shick Esteve, Unifiller, and VMI – are experts in ingredient automation, pre-dough systems, mixing, and depositing technologies.

Corbion
Corbion is a supplier of food preservation solutions, functional blends, and algae ingredients. The company uses its unique expertise in fermentation and other processes to deliver healthy, sustainable solutions for the preservation of food and food production.

CSB System
CSB-System provides bakery ERP solutions for bakery and pastry shops that help with product management, legal requirement compliance, traceability, and transparency in operations.

CSM Ingredients
CSM Ingredients is a global ingredient-tech company with the aim of collaboratively enabling the evolution of the food ecosystem.

Dawn Foods
Dawn Foods provides bakers with a wide range of specialized baking ingredients. The global company also extensively researches market trends and delivers insights, innovations, products, services and bakery expertise.

DIOSNA
DIOSNA Dierks & Söhne GmbH specializes in pre-dough, dough and mixing systems for the production of baked goods – technology for the complete dough production.

dsm-firmenich
dsm-firmenich is a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition, and materials.

ECD – Electronic Controls Design
ECD develops advanced thermal profiling tools for high-yield baking operations. The company’s solutions such as M.O.L.E.™ thermal profilers, CakeOMETER and BreadOMETER product sensors, and the OvenBALANCER machine quality management tool help ensure consistent, high quality baked goods results.

Eurogerm
Eurogerm specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of creative ingredients and solutions for the wheat, flour, bread, and patisserie sectors, for either crusty or soft products with different tastes and textures.

Fedima
Fedima is the European trade association representing the bakery, patisserie and confectionery ingredients’ manufacturers. It’s mission is to shape a favourable environment to ensure a sustainable and an innovative bakery industry.

Food ingredients Europe (FiE)
Food Ingredients Europe has been uniting the world’s leading food & beverage suppliers, buyers, R&D experts, and production specialists for over 35 years. Each year, it showcases a diverse range of innovative, new ingredients & services and over its lifespan, has welcomed more than 500,000 people through its doors.

Forbo Siegling GmbH
Forbo Movement Systems is a upplier of conveyor and processing belts, plastic modular belts, power transmission belts and both toothed and flat belts made of synthetic materials.

FRITSCH Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
FRITSCH Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG provides solutions for high-quality baked goods. As a manufacturer of bakery equipment for artisanal craftsmanship and industrial process reliability, the company’s focus is always on the end product.

GEA Bakery (GEA Imaforni Spa)
With more than 100 years of combined experience in the bakery industry, GEA Bakery provides turnkey solutions for a wide variety of applications: cookies, biscuits, crackers, cakes, pies, tarts and more.

Hansaloy Corporation
Hansaloy manufactures bread and bun slicing blades as well as machine parts for the baking industry. The company uses proprietary steel alloys, specifically designed for bakery applications and metallurgically tested to ensure that it meets high standards.

Heinen GmbH & Co. KG
Heinen specializes in developing equipment for pasteurizing, fermenting, cooling and freezing of almost any foodstuff. The company provides a full range of services, from the initial development of the equipment to the implementation of the design, delivery, assembly, programming and regular maintenance.

HEUFT THERMO-OEL GMBH & CO. KG
HEUFT specializes in building baking oven systems for artisan and industrial bakeries for over 300 years. The German company focuses on thermo-oil heated oven systems.

iba
Iba is the world’s leading trade fair for the baking and confectionery industry and offers a unique platform where the latest trends and innovations in the industry are presented.

IBIE – International Baking Industry Exposition
The most important grain-based food event in the Western Hemisphere, IBIE, or Baking Expo, is a platform for the global community, bringing together peers who are facing the same challenges and opportunities specific to their role. From strategies for navigating unpredictable input costs to innovative automation solutions, all current issues are met with solutions. The show also includes IBIEducate, a powerful educational component.

ICECOOL Systems
ICECOOL specializes in refrigeration technology and has unique expertise in combined proofing and cooling processes. Solutions such as SOFTSTEAM and SLOWPROOFING enable the bakeries to achieve perfect baked goods quality.















