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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.
Pizza is an ever-popular mainstay, everywhere around the world, at any time of the day. Its reign over eating and snacking times is bolstered by continuous innovation. Exciting, new assortments and flavor combinations are backed by innovation in the pizza production area.

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

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.

J4 s.r.o.
J4 s.r.o. was founded in 1994. The company started with the production of individual baking ovens and developed to design entire bakery and confectionery lines that meet all the requirements of artisanal and industrial production.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Verhoeven Family of Companies
Verhoeven Bakery Equipment Family supplies turnkey projects by incorporating solutions from its four areas of expertise with their corresponding company: BVT Dough Proces Solutions, NewCap Industrial Handling Solutions, Vacuum Cooling & Baking Solutions, and Bakepack End of Line Solutions.

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.















