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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.

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

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.

Burford
Burford Corp. is a leading bakery equipment company, based in Maysville, OK. It provides sales, service, and manufacturing. The Burford family invented the original twist tie machine.

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.

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%.

Kwik Lok Corporation
Kwik Lok Corporation specializes in creating bag closing and printing solutions to the baking, produce and other industries around the world. This results in one of life’s little conveniences, the ability to easily reclose a package.

Multivac
MULTIVAC is a family business from the Allgäu region in southern Germany that operates at an international level. With integrated packaging and processing solutions, the company offers to its customers solutions for individual added value – across the entire logistics chain.

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.

Schubert Packaging Systems GmbH
Schubert presents an array of ready-to-deploy packaging solutions, featuring a diverse range of top-loading machines (TLM), among others. The company creates bespoke packaging systems, tailored to meet the unique demands of each client.

Stewart Systems
Stewart Systems offers a complete line of equipment for high volume bread and bun production and similar products produced in a pan, from unit machinery to complete, integrated systems.

Syntegon Technology GmbH
Syntegon provides processing and automated packaging solutions that can support seamless processing, with a focus on sustainability, hygiene and use of utilization.

Tecnopool Spa
Tecnopool, part of TP Food Group, is active in over 80 countries around the world in the design, production and installation of machinery and complete lines for industrial and semi-industrial food processing in all processing phases, from -40 °C to +300°, with infinite fully customizable configurations.

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.















