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Savage Bros. back in business after water main break

Employees escape without injury but flooding affects 90 percent of 81, 500-sq.-ft. site.
Bernie Pacyniak
June 21, 2017

Last Thursday, more than 240 Retail Confectioners International (RCI) convention attendees toured Savage Bros. offices and its manufacturing facility in Elk Grove Village, Ill. The next day, 11 employees in the company’s engineering area of the 81,500-sq.-ft. complex were startled to hear a rumbling sound around 1:45 p.m.


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interpack 2017

The interpack of things

Technological advances in equipment highlighted at triennial show.
Bernie Pacyniak
May 10, 2017

And this year, they even have machines talking to themselves. It’s dubbed Industry 4.0. As Wikipedia explains, “Industry 4.0 is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing.” 


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Atkinson caramels

Atkinson Candy Co. scores packaging design award

New line of caramels and Halloween items earn kudos.
Bernie Pacyniak
April 12, 2017

Lufkin, Texas-based Atkinson Candy Co. and its packaging design partner, The Vital Design Group, have been selected from more than 2,000 entries as winners of the annual Graphic Design USA 2017 American Package Design Awards. 


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Tanis Food Tec

Tanis Food Tec has a quarter-century's passion for processing

Consistent innovation engine behind growing success, expansion.
April 4, 2017
In 1992, Peter Tanis officially started Tanis Food Tec after having spent a decade working as a sales manager for Mondomix. By doing so he became a second-generation entrepreneur in continuous food processing.
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Vosges-Haut Chocolat

Vosges' Katrina Markoff: Chocolate's artisanal alchemist

Attention to ingredients allows Vosges Haut Chocolate founder Katrina Markoff to create evocative, trend-setting chocolates.
Bernie Pacyniak
March 31, 2017
For Markoff, there needs to be a story for her to do what she does, namely create and innovate using the medium of chocolate and all the wonderful ingredients that can go into a bar or bonbon.
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Georgia Nut Co.

Innovation, investment spur re-invention of Georgia Nut Co.

Skokie, Ill.-based company turns from branded products to focus on contract manufacturing, innovation.
March 7, 2017
Georgia Nut Co. strengthens its contract manufacturing capabilities with investments in production and packaging, as well as in a new research and development center.
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