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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.

Albert Handtmann
Albert Handtmann provides suitable machine technology for both small-scale and industrial producers, for dough dividing, dosing, forming, extruding, digitalization and automation. The solutions are suitable for the production of breads, pastries, small baked goods, snacks, and other on-trend products.

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

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

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.

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.

JAC
JAC specializes in bread slicing and dough processing since 1946. Starting from JAC bread slicers, the company has developed a complete range of machines for bread slicing and dough processing.

Koenig Baking Equipment
For more than 55 years, Koenig has been supplying bakeries worldwide with high-quality bakery machines, lines and ovens. The product range covers the entire production chain of bakery technology: from mixing, dividing and rounding, forming and proofing, to baking, cooling and freezing.

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.

Middleby Bakery
US-based Middleby Bakery provides reliable low- and high-volume equipment solutions for the production of bread, rolls, and buns, as well as cakes, biscuits, cereal, baked snacks, and much more.

New Era Machines
New Era Machines provides advanced & versatile biscuit production lines & highly efficient bakery systems that Incorporate cutting-edge technologies for streamlined production

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

Reading Bakery Systems
The Reading Bakery Systems brands – Thomas L. Green, Reading Pretzel, Exact Mixing and Reading Thermal – offer production lines capable of producing a wide range of snack products, continuous mixing solutions and oven profiling. The company also provides consulting services.

Rheon Automatic Machinery GmbH
Rheon, a Japan-based corporation. It is a specialized manufacturer of automated food processing machinery.

RONDO Burgdorf AG
RONDO provides technology for dough processing. It can supply the ideal solution for any size of operation and any level of automation – from multifunctional machines to configurable industrial lines.

Royal Kaak
Kaak has been working in the field of bakery technology since 1846, with solutions ranging from stand-alone machines to an integrated approach for complex and automated bakery lines.

Vemag Maschinenbau GmbH
VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH manufactures equipment for filling, portioning, dividing, shaping and depositing pastes, doughs and mixes. The modular system of standard fillers supports customized attachments that can be flexibly tailored to the specific requirements of the user.

WP BAKERYGROUP
The WP BAKERYGROUP offers complete solutions, from project development to equipping entire bakeries (handcraft and industrial operations). Each unit can be operated as a ‘stand-alone’ piece of equipment, but can also be easily ‘docked on’ at any time; interfaces for third-party products are available.















