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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.
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.

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.

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

CSB System
CSB-System provides bakery ERP solutions for bakery and pastry shops that help with product management, legal requirement compliance, traceability, and transparency in operations.

ECD – Electronic Controls Design
ECD develops advanced thermal profiling tools for high-yield baking operations. The company’s solutions such as M.O.L.E.™ thermal profilers, CakeOMETER and BreadOMETER product sensors, and the OvenBALANCER machine quality management tool help ensure consistent, high quality baked goods results.

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.

IPCO
IPCO is a manufacturer of steel belts for the food industry, where they are used as conveying media for baking, cooling, freezing, and more. The smooth surface can be easily cleaned with the IPCO Laser Cleaner. The company also provides chocolate processing solutions.

KPM Analytics
KPM Analytics develops scientific instrumentation for analyzing critical food quality parameters and assessing production processes. Each of the company’s brands has a long history of delivering advanced analysis solutions to ensure product quality and optimize process efficiency.

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.

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.

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

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.

Spiromatic
Spiromatic provides solutions for ingredient handling, fermentation systems, and mixing technology in the bakery industry.

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.

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.

Zeppelin Systems GmbH
Zeppelin has wide-ranging expertise when it comes to all aspects of raw material handling: raw material intake, storage, discharge, conveying, preparation, dosing, mixing and controlling.















