Known for its bun-based items, the Chicago-based chain is eyeing exponential growth.

Snacking healthier is getting easier nowadays with graze, a subscription box that also sells its products in stores. 

Insights into the top sandwich trends across the U.S. restaurant industry, including R&D inspirations for sandwich-specific breads, buns and rolls.

Advances in packaging materials continue to extend shelf life, while adding convenience and freshness to bakery and snack goods. Innovations in modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP), microbial-inhibiting film, and the use of cellulose nanocrystals are helping to push the envelope.

Chocolate is a treat that will never go out of style—whether it’s a consumer purchasing it for their own consumption, or perhaps as a gift for friends or family, it is a well-loved dessert. 

Manufacturers are poised to tackle the various challenges of the chips category.

Ease of cleaning, maintenance and access, as well as the ability to produce a wider variety of items, are among the top desires of companies looking to purchase dough laminators and sheeters for production of snack foods and baked goods.

Dough comes in many styles, and today's laminators and sheeters need to accommodate an increasing range of requirements.

Pringles Mexican Street Corn Potato Crisps are light, crispy, and never greasy, and bursting with roasted spices, citrus zest, and a little kick of cayenne pepper, per the brand.

Consumers continue to reach for their favorite puffed and extruded snacks in their many forms. However, while U.S. shoppers still put tried and true types (like cheese curls and pork rinds) in their cart, they’re increasingly interested in trying new flavor twists, better-for-you bases, and other novel takes on the category. 

The snack company chatted up its various brands and new items at Sweets & Snacks.

Extruded snacks are having a bright year, and producers expect the success to continue.

The plant-based snack company is debuting Mexican Street Corn and Churro Chickpea Puffs.

Speakers from J&J Snack Foods, Cargill, and the FDA outlined root cause analysis.

Better-for-you options and innovative flavors have been a large part of the overall snack industry. Now, they’re making their way into the extruded snacks segment.

Innovations in extrusion technology, ingredients and product R&D have built new interest in multiple snack segments.

Hebenstreit GmbH is now offering manufacturers new technology designed for the manufacture of extruded snacks: the SE 70 and SE 110 single-screw cooking extruders.

Bunge North America purchases Heartland Harvest, a producer of die-cut pellets used to make extruded foods.

Puffed and extruded snacks are shedding their junk-food image with more nutritious ingredients and no-fry processing, plus on-trend flavors, textures and shapes to add more fun.

Processing Technologies International will invest $10 million in its Illinois headquarters in response to growing demand for its sheet extrusion equipment.

Growing consumer demand for better-for-you, gluten-free and innovative baked goods and snacks continues to drive bakers and snack manufacturers to explore new ingredients and formulations. It’s also prompting them to re-examine their equipment needs, as they discover that their existing machinery may not be able to efficiently handle today’s in-demand products. For some manufacturers, a new extruder may be just the ticket.

Handtmann has announced the appointment of Christian Strohm and Sean Gorman to bakery sales specialist positions in Canada and the U.S.

The puffed and extruded snack segment combines the best elements of tradition and forward-thinking better-for-you innovation.

The collective puffed, popped, pellet and extruded snack segment continues to see positive sales activity and a strong level of product innovation.

Snack manufacturers are looking to build in healthfulness through the use of raw materials, including vegetables and fruit, as well as cleaner ingredient profiles with more protein and fiber.

A new generation of extrusion equipment for the food industry has been launched by Baker Perkins.

Hygienic design, quicker changeovers, reduction of maintenance time, improved cooling ability and the modularity and flexibility to run more-diverse products-sometimes with exotic raw materials that need gentler processing-are the top-of-mind issues for customers of extrusion equipment.

Egan Food Technologies, a confectionery and baking process equipment manufacturer and service provider, will unveil at Pack Expo a new four-roll co-extruder featuring a design that significantly reduces product changeover and cleaning times.

The new high-performance co-extruder from GEA is designed to simultaneously deposit two different types of dough, plus a third, fluid filling.

The soft-dough and cookies sector of the biscuit market comprises a wide-ranging family of products.

Customers of machines that handle puffing and extruding of snack and bakery products are focused on accommodating protein- and plant-based inclusions, hygienic design and rapid cleaning, speed and quick changeovers, better integrated controls, easy data extraction, and smaller machines that can produce specialized batches.

Flexibility, greater sanitation, gentle handling of ingredients, quicker changeovers, more precise weight control, and the ability to make products with healthier ingredients are top of mind features and benefits for snack and bakery customers of extrusion equipment and technology.

Baker Perkins has exploited innovative technology to improve process control, performance and hygiene on all the units in its Co-Ex Master co-extrusion systems, which create high-value products by adding a center filling into a cereal outer.

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.

Snack and bakery producers are demanding more features than ever from extrusion equipment.

Biospringer North America Corporation has announced an expansion on its yeast extract site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to support the growing market trend for natural origin ingredients derived from fermentation.  

Bimbo Bakehouse recently introduced Entenmann’s Little Bites for foodservice distribution in both Chocolate Chip and Blueberry varieties.

Georgia-based HRS Heat Exchangers has been awarded the American 3-A Sanitary Standards approval for two of its key heat exchanger models for food and beverage use.

The Coperion line of ZSK Mv PLUS high efficiency extruders have been upgraded to include options for easier clean design to meet the highest standards of hygiene, ideal for the processing of food products.

SPRE drums are now optimized to meet the stringent requirements of food processing, ensuring the purity and safety of food products.

The case packer is enhanced by the brand's patented corrugated warp correction technology. 

All Bradman Lake machinery has been specifically designed to meet today’s packaging challenges, improving flexibility and efficiency to increase profitability. 

Producers can maximize floor space and cost savings by combining the capabilities of Fortress metal detectors and checkweighers into a robust integrated system.

On exhibit at PACK EXPO will be the company's Thiele UltraStar G2 Bagger, Hayssen R300 Flow Wrapper, and OpView HMI.

The company’s integrated lines provide solutions from system design and simulation to machine selection, all the way through FAT testing and installation.

Wraparound case packers are used for their ability to provide a high level of protection and stability for packaged products, says the brand.

Munk Pack, winner of the 2017 ‘Best Health School Snacks’ contest, discusses natural, healthy, vegan snacks.

Tate & Lyle PLC (Tate & Lyle) is pleased to announce the launch of Fibre University, a new online modular course designed to help formulators and food scientists solve even the toughest fibre formulation challenges in a time when most people are not getting enough fibre in their diets.

Tate & Lyle is pleased to announce the expansion of its PROMITOR Soluble Fiber range.

Renewable Lubricants new food grade Bio-Extreme High Temperature Oven Lubricants perform at extreme high temperatures up to and over 1000° C, with protection up to 2000° C.