Egan Food Technologies, a confectionery and baking process equipment manufacturer and service provider, will unveil at Pack Expo a new slab-bar forming line that is manufactured and serviced from the company’s headquarters in Grand Rapids, Mich.
All Things Baking promises hands-on classes, expert-led demonstrations, strategy-packed seminars and more. Featuring 24 informational seminars, demonstrations conducted live on the show floor and behind-the-scenes bakery tours, this year’s show takes place Sept. 9-11 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
Expanded several times, Turano Baking Co.’s Berwyn, Ill., headquarters production plant features three fully-automated makeup lines and three semi-automated lines that can produce some 200 stock-keeping units overall and generate as many as 150 types of fresh products each day. Starting out as a 2,000-sq.-ft. storefront in the early 1960s, the facility now is a 185,000-sq.-ft. dynamo of action.
A busy summer brings plenty of baking and snack activities, says Editor-in-Chief Lauren R. Hartman. Take a load off and flip through this issue to find out what the baking and snack industries have up their smocks.
Specializing in brownie bars, cookies, animal crackers and other sweet goods, Old Colony Baking Co. and Spring Valley Baking, its sister company and contract baking facility, both in Spring Valley, Ill., believe quality is their top priority. It’s what consumers and customers have come to expect.
Celebrating 125 years in business, Gonnella Baking Co. operates sophisticated baking/manufacturing facilities that produce breads, rolls and more at rates exceeding three million pounds a week. Join us on a tour of the 80,000-plus-sq.-ft. Aurora, Ill., facility that includes high-tech equipment, superior operating standards and two makeup lines that provide plenty of product to major U.S. companies.