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Lone Star completed the acquisition of Hillenbrand for USD 3.8 billion. The transaction was initially announced on October 15, 2025, and approved by Hillenbrand’s shareholders on January 8. Lone Star, an investment firm headquartered in London, UK, now owns Coperion.
Dawn Foods launched Frozen Conchas and Frozen Mantecadas, which are now available to bakeries across the US, as it observes a growing interest in authentic Hispanic bakery, particularly among Hispanic and Gen Z consumers.
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.

American Pan Europe
American Pan Europe offers a wide selection of stock baking pans that are ready to ship, as well as any custom design required. In addition to this, the company offers coating options for pans along with the service of cleaning, re-coating, and identifying patterns that prevent damage in older pans.

AMF Bakery Systems
AMF Bakery Systems specializes in the complete range of solutions for the baking industry, for all processing steps and product categories.

Anton Paar GmbH (Brabender)
Anton Paar develops, produces and distributes highly accurate laboratory instruments and process measuring systems, and provides custom-tailored automation and robotic solutions. It incorporates the epertise from Brabender, following its acquisition.

Artezen Dough Handling
Artezen Dough Handling manufactures dough dividers, rounders and moulders for bread, baguette, pizza, rolls, hotdogs etc.

AutomationX GmbH
AutomationX is an Austrian company specializing in the automation of raw material handling systems, with dedicated software solutions.

BakeXperts
BakeXperts focuses on the development of the UDO vacuum baking and cooling oven, a patented technology that revolutionizes the baking process, with significant reductions in baking and cooling times, while also achieving superior product characteristics, and longer shelf-life, without product loss. Double-baking also restores the products to freshly baked quality.

BAKON
BAKON Food Equipment designs and manufactures bakery equipment for spraying, depositing and cutting for industrial confectionery, retail, and traditional bakeries.

Berndorf Band Group
The Berndorf Band Group specializes in the production of steel belts and steel belt systems. Operating worldwide with locations in Asia, Europe, North and South America, the group consists of the parent company Berndorf Band, eight subsidiaries, and worldwide partners.

Bühler AG
Bühler Holding AG is a Swiss multinational plant equipment manufacturer developing process solutions along complete value chains. It has a presence in over 140 countries with 100 service stations, over 30 manufacturing sites, and 25 application centers.

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.

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.

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.

Ishida
Ishida Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational company that manufactures food-packing machinery. It has been in business since 1893 and is a privately owned family business. It invented the multihead weigher, for which it enjoys a global market share of 70%.

Kempf GmbH Bakeware & Coating
Kempf GmbH is a family business that has been specializing in bakeware and coatings for 50 years. The company provides a wide range of products that include a variety of industrial trays as well as tray coatings for all processing needs.

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.

Mecatherm
MECATHERM has over 900 installations all over the world, supplying solutions for medium-sized and industrial bakeries, from dedicated units for a baking process, to whole production plants.

MIWE Michael Wenz GmbH
MIWE Michael Wenz GmbH specializes in manufacturing a wide range of in-store ovens.

Rademaker BV
Rademaker develops and provides solutions for the food processing industry. The company specializes in automation, engineering, hygiene and process performance.















