Pecans can help product developers take the food and snacking industry to the next level. 

For its latest coated honey roast nut production line, Trigon Snacks selected a customized linear Stealth metal detector with an innovative retractable conveyor reject system.
 

Bimbo QSR has selected TraceGains as its system of choice to automate supply chain operations.

Junior's announced that its new Oreo Cheesecake, a partnership with Mondelēz, the maker of Oreos, is now on the shelves in grocery stores across the country.

The right technology can help snack and bakery professionals avoid or minimize supply chain challenges.

ABA recently released an infographic about the demand for soybean oil and vegetable oils. The demand has currently exceeded the supply, causing prices to rapidly increase.  

Fats and oils play an important role in delivering the sensory and quality attributes for snack and bakery products. Consumers’ interest in sustainability, health and wellbeing, and clean label are influencing the fats and oils category.

Sales of cake, pie, and cheesecake products are up, and formulators need ingredients that deliver on functionality.

Fat ingredients play multiple roles in sweet goods like pastries.

Founded and based near Seattle, SaltWorks supplies premium-grade specialty salts to wholesale, retail, and consumer markets throughout the world.

Servo-pump fillers from Hinds-Bock Corp. are designed for high-speed depositing and spreading for a wide variety of flowable products such as icings, fruits, batters, sauces, dressings, jellies and condiments, to name a few.

How well do you know your ribbon blender? Charles Ross & Son Co., Hauppauge, N.Y., offers some important tips for blender selection and operation.

Pcdata Inc., East Granby, Conn., recommends that companies evaluate the positive effect modern distribution systems can have on their bottom line.

Conveying in the food industry has become more sophisticated than simply moving product from point A to point B.

The B.T.R. x Blue Bottle Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Superfood Protein Bar can be found at all Blue Bottle Coffee locations nationally.

Available from leading ingredient suppliers, egg replacers offer bakers readily available, cost-effective egg alternatives.

Advance International Inc. has introduced a premium, ultra-sustainable & highly nutritious ocean-based super-protein that will revolutionize the global supply chain.

Lest anyone think that the pandemic pressed "pause" on campaigns for corporate sustainability, think again. If anything, COVID-19 reminded consumers, and the snack and bakery sectors, just how interconnected we are, whether we’re selecting suppliers, expanding production, or packing a protein bar into our gym bags.

SF&WB connected with several industry suppliers to gain their current market perspectives for the coming year.

United Supermarkets has acquired the rights to the name and recipes of August’s Pies, an iconic West Texas brand.

Jar Joy has introduced its new innovative line of multi-layered desserts. 

The bite-sized snacks are filled with hemp hearts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, chai, flax, and quinoa, and are Manitoba’s debut into the snacking category.

Supermarket Italy, an online destination for authentic gourmet imported products from Italy since 2009, has expanded its offerings to include snack and bakery baskets.

Snack and bakery companies looking at new or improve extrusion equipment to create puffed and popped snacks, bakery items like nutrition bars, and other types of SKUs have features and benefits like cleanability, flexibility, and remote support high on their list of considerations, according to companies that make extrusion equipment.

To successfully bake products requires an astute blend of art and science. A fundamental ingredient in the baking process is the leavening agent. Leavening contributes essential sensory characteristics to bakery products.

The company creates plant-powered, gluten-free products rooted in Konjac—a fiber-rich Asian root plant that can be used to empower flour substitute applications.

Nationally recognized SUPERPRETZEL  Soft Pretzel brand is expanding its snack offerings, as it was announced that J&J Snack Foods Corp. is introducing SUPERPRETZEL Filled Soft Pretzel Bites.

The Hunter’s Supermoon appearing in the sky this week reportedly will be this year’s biggest.

Michael Freitas Finete has taken the helm as president and chief executive officer of SupHerb Farms, an agriculture-based business.

Fruit ingredients and nutritional bar products are a natural fit.

Pete Levangie, CEO, Bay State Milling, speaks on the current global grain sourcing situation.

Along with Unreasonable Group, the snack producer will drive toward Net Zero by 2050.

The company's three-year initiative puts forth ambitious sustainability goals.

Stellar Snacks recently debuted grain-free pretzels crafted with superfood ingredients, now officially available at select grocery stores throughout the U.S.

Known for its plant-based, real-food ingredients, Laird Superfood’s Pumpkin Spice line is crafted with a signature blend of ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon, plus real pumpkin.

Are you thinking about restocking your packaging supplies? If you are, then you have a lot to think about before making the investment. 

We keep super glue on the truck for any time we run into needing an O-ring, but don't have the exact size. 

NFPA 70 provides the important details for design.

Franklin Water Treatment provides products, services, and system solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial point-of-use and point-of-entry water treatment products, in a wide variety of markets and applications.

The donation, presented at WHVACR's 21st Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas, includes $50,000 to be awarded in 2024 and an additional $50,000 in 2025. 

How is the aging population changing product design? Builders and designers have been hearing from clients that homeowners now want to age-in-place, and they also want to renovate their existing homes to accommodate various generations living under one roof. The lack of housing stock and current mortgage and interest rates have contributed to this phenomenon. This shift in living has been a boon to the renovation industry, and it has given rise to innovations and building processes that elegantly combine technology and health benefits in the service of independence for elderly or anyone with physical challenges.

Customer segments serviced by Toronto-based Crownhill include public sector agencies, industrial products, consumer goods and e-commerce.

Grant applications must be submitted by August 20, 2024, and grants will be awarded on or before Sept. 30, 2024.

Compared to 10-15 years ago, companies are safer. Whether it’s tighter regulations, more awareness, enhanced experience, technology improvements or other factors, companies are doing a better job keeping their employees safe at the workplace. However, that number has plateaued over the last couple of years—the total incident rate per 100 workers has not changed significantly since 2017.

Whether you agree or not with the increasing ESG scrutiny on companies, your business and bottom line are in jeopardy if you are not as attentive to ESG as you are ensuring your workers and contractors are safe.

Over 900 AD community members attended the 2023 AD North American Meeting – Industrial & Safety – U.S. and Safety Network Divisions in Colorado from September 12 to 15 for a week of networking and collaboration.

PIP Global Safety, TrusTrace’s first customer specialized in the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Workwear and Safety Footwear space, is taking a proactive approach to regulatory compliance by gathering granular traceability data on the cotton used in its products. 

Supply chain businesses need to understand the current risks and establish protocols that reduce both digital and physical vulnerabilities. 

One of New York man's employees died after a fall from an improperly secured roof.

Jergens Industrial Supply recently teamed up with custom software development group MindHARBOR Inc. to solve a problem in their supply chain -- and in the process found a new line of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to market to other distributors.