Kangaroo Brands’ newest production facility produces a popular line of baked pita chip snacks, which consumers can’t seem to get enough of. A few miles away from the main pita bread plant, the chip facility has three speedy production lines that can produce as much as 4,000 lb. of chips per hour.
Maintaining traditional European bread baking processes using stone hearth ovens, European/Italian recipes, formulas and old-world flavor, Turano Baking Co., Berwyn, Ill., has been expanding its artisan-quality product line nationally. We celebrate the 50th anniversary of this growing company, which is smoothly transitioning into its third generation of family owned and operated management.
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.
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.
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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.
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