IOI Loders Croklaan opens first U.S. Creative Studio
IOI Loders Croklaan Group, Wormerveer, the Netherlands, showed off its Creative Studio in Channahon, Ill. (right), to the media and other guests during a grand opening event on Sept. 5. It is the company’s third Creative Studio and its first in the United States.
The facility occupies the first floor of a $3.5 million, 16,000-sq.-ft., two-story building that also houses IOI Loders Croklaan Americas’ headquarters. The 8,000-sq.-ft. space is divided into a “welcome” area, a “generate” area with meeting rooms and a “create” area with two equipment-filled labs—Studio One for baking (below) and Studio Two for confectionery.