Harpak-ULMA Packaging, a Taunton, Mass., builder of packaging machinery, including skin-pack equipment and flowrappers, appoints Mark Hyde Southeast regional manager.
The Londonderry, N.H., manufacturer of specialty lubricants appoints Toby Porter food market manager and Ben Bryant marine market manager. The appointments represent an effort to strengthen Klüber’s support of the food/beverage and marine businesses.
Joe Schwebel, president of Schwebel Baking Co., Youngstown, Ohio, died on July 23 at 73. Schwebel was one of nine Schwebel family members who continued to work for the family business daily.
The North American operating arm of Bunge Ltd. expands its Ingredient Innovation Center in Bradley, Ill., to include a full-service culinary center. The facility includes an industrial kitchen and a corporate dining room with extensive video capabilities.
WS Packaging Group’s purchase will greatly expand its folding carton portfolio. Boelter is a full-service folding carton company located in Winona, Minn., that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of folding cartons and converted paperboard products for a broad variety of end uses.
A baker’s dozen is a familiar expression that has been around for generations and even centuries. Why has the baker’s dozen continued on as a perpetual phrase? For ideas, products, even industries to perpetuate, they must connect to a sense of truth or emotional certainty. There are two values the baker’s dozen phrase aligns with, no matter what the conception. Those two values are integrity and generosity.
Scheduled for Sept. 9-11 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, All Things Baking, a retail trade event, this year will give exhibitors free passes to invite customers to the show. The retail trade event provides education, participatory demonstrations and a full scope of new products and services to help keep the baking business competitive, profitable and on top of the trends.
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