Don Pancho Authentic Mexican Foods’ state-of-the-art tortilla production facility in Halifax, N.C., is now fully onstream, paving the way for tortillas to become a weekly staple in the non-Hispanic market. Adding three more production lines at the Halifax location, the company is offering an array of new, better-for-you tortillas, wraps and chips that are helping make the most of its dynamic tortilla business.

A critical aspect on any production line, the package handling function may require one conveyor section, multiple lanes or hundreds of integrated material handling accumulators, elevators, lowerators, robotics, controllers and more. We asked several manufacturers what’s new in package handling equipment and systems to make your manufacturing operation more productive.

Don Pancho East, Halifax, N.C., is brimming with a high-energy staff and high-tech tortilla production on four new lines that can each output as much as 60,000 tortillas per hour.

Since 1974, Grecian Delight Foods has prided itself on a variety of Greek and ethnic foods. Find out how this Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based company is expanding beyond its roots.

The IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo is a place where top food science and technology professionals representing the most prominent organizations in the food sector, come together to learn about the most recent product, ingredient and technology developments and their potential impact on your business, as well as identify trends that will shape the industry, enhance your skills, augment your knowledge base and expand your professional network.

Where else can bakers and snack food producers and suppliers find the latest in trends, packaging equipment and technology than Process Expo 2011. Check out this pre-show guide for the ins and outs of the show. 

Celebrating 96 years in business, a recently expanded production facility and a host of fresh baked goods, Milano Bakery in Joliet, Ill., receives Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery’s 2011 Baker of the Year award.

The power of packaging is contagious. That’s why the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), the Reston, Va.-based organizer of Pack Expo Las Vegas 2011, is, as always, presenting one powerful show.

The Tortilla Industry Association presents the most important tortilla industry event of the year-the 22nd Annual Convention and Trade Exposition, which is scheduled for Sept. 12-13 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.

No matter how the cookie crumbles, Old Colony Baking Co. has what it takes to be a winner in the cookie, brownie and sweet goods business.