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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.

Anneliese Backtechnik GmbH
Anneliese Backtechnik GmbH, based in Eschweiler near Aachen, in Germany, specializes in manufacturing baking trays, tin-sets, pan-straps, racks and freezer trolleys of all kinds.

Auto-Bake Serpentine
Auto-Bake provides fully automated industrial baking ovens and systems. Auto-Bake’s compact, continuous baking solutions are custom-configured for a diverse range of baking applications.

Baker Thermal Solutions
For over 100 years, Baker Thermal has offered a breadth of industrial bakery equipment with system solutions, worldwide. The company provides a full range of aftermarket services, from parts and inspections to on-site rebuilds for equipment.

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.

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.

Cetravac
Cetravac specializes in vacuum conditioning technology, incorporated in the UDO baking oven, which is designed together with BakeXperts for baking and cooling in the same chamber. The patented technology greatly reduces cooling times and energy requirements, while improving product quality.

Coatresa
Since 1983, Coatresa SLU provides services to the baking industry by developing new techniques for applying fluoropolymer-based coatings. During its more than 30 years of activity in the application of coatings in the baking industry, Coatresa has undergone a continuous expansion process, setting up centers in Spain and beyond.

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.

HEUFT THERMO-OEL GMBH & CO. KG
HEUFT specializes in building baking oven systems for artisan and industrial bakeries for over 300 years. The German company focuses on thermo-oil heated oven systems.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sarmaşık
Sarmaşık Group specializes in automatic industrial systems and more.















