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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.

Backaldrin International
backaldrin International, The Kornspitz Company, develops bread ideas and premium baking ingredients. The product range includes high-quality wheat and bread baking agents, sourdoughs, special premixes for bread, rolls and confectionery, bread spices, as well as fillings and flavors, many also available in organic quality.

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.

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.

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.

IREKS GmbH
Aiming to be a partner in aroma and taste development, IREKS GmbH produces high-quality baking ingredients – from improvers and mixes to malts and sourdoughs. In doing so, the company unites tradition and innovation.

Lesaffre International
A global player in the fermentation of microorganisms (yeasts, bacteria) for baking, taste, healthcare & biotechnology, Lesaffre has a EUR 3 billion turnover and is established on all continents.

Martin Braun-Gruppe
The Martin Braun-Gruppe, headquartered in Hanover, develops, produces, and sells a full range of convenience products for the baking, confectionery, and catering industries. It delivers its products to wholesalers and retailers, bakeries, pastry shops and food services, and industrial companies worldwide.

Zeelandia
Zeelandia is a global supplier of bakery solutions and ingredients. The company aims to help industrial bakeries and small and mid-sized bakery businesses to create new opportunities by optimizing their baking processes, for high-quality products.















