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Building on its success at PACK EXPO Las Vegas last year, the CTT-Improving Production through Innovation program is making its PACK EXPO International debut.

Eby-Brown is to distribution companies what Mars and Hershey are to chocolate. In fact, Eby-Brown is the largest privately owned distributor in the United States, with more than $5 Billion in annual sales.

In celebration of National Donut Day on June 1, Unifiller Systems, a Delta, B.C.-based company that has been helping bakeries and food production facilities grow for more than 25 years, is offering a summary of the four most common equipment options to optimize donut finishing and decorating.

More large U.S. food and beverage companies are dealing with the idea of ‘extended producer responsibility,’ and are recycling their product packaging as part of the cost of doing business. Last year, for example, some 11 million six-oz. yogurt cups were collected through a recycling program, according to Stonyfield Farm, the New Hampshire yogurt maker. Opposition to mandated responsibility for packaging after use is growing just as much, even among companies that are already required to do it abroad.

Italian immigrant John B. Sanfilippo arrived in America in 1910 and 12 years later, he founded a small pecan shelling company out of a rented storefront in Chicago.

Candy Industry recognizes Mars Chocolate North America as its first “Green” Manufacturer of the Year recipient, an acknowledgement of the company’s ongoing and earnest commitment to sustainability.