Bakery unit first from Britannia Industries

Britannia Industries (India) has set up its first bakery products unit in order to cater to markets in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The plant will be built in Jhagadia and will cover 26 acres, with the capacity of … Read More

Four Nebraska bakeries join forces online

Four bakeries in Nebraska have begun marketing their products on the same online site, WhiteThumbBakers.com. The businesses include Sehnert’s Bakery of McCook, Prairie Harvest of Trenton, HomeSpun of McCook and Wauneta Roller Mills of Wauneta. The products online offer customers … Read More

Kingsmill’s new Traffic Light Labelling to hit the shelves

Kingsmill (UK) is the latest company to include the ‘traffic light’ labelling system to its range of bakery products to apply the UK Governments’ recommended Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling Scheme. Kingsmill will release the new labels this month. The … Read More

New applications to Aasted’s Alice™ and SuperNova Quick Shift

A new application for the Aasted (Denmark) Alice™ extruder can produce delicate shredded coconut. Read More

No-bake Granola

A no-bake process for granola has been developed by General Mills (US), which reduces costs and production time while providing the toasted flavour and appearance.

The method involves mixing the ingredients at 200 degrees F and above to ensure … Read More

Warburtons launch new cake range

Warburtons (UK) has moved into the cake market with four new variations adding to their assortment of baked goods including Bakewell Squares, Chocolate Brownies, Lemon Slices and Millionaire’s Shortbread. The cakes are available in packs of four single sized slices … Read More

Alliance Grain Traders to expand Minot Food Ingredient Plant

Alliance Grain Traders (AGT) of Canada is planning to expand their pulses ingredient production facility with the introduction of a second production line, in order to double the facility’s production size. Currently, the Minot plant produces pulse ingredient flours, … Read More

Barry Callebaut awakens Bensdorp®

Barry Callebaut (Switzerland) has revamped its Bensdorp® brand to highlight its role in the cocoa powder market. Bensdorp® has created “finessence” cocoa powders to explore new tastes, colours and textures. Their cocoa inventions include red Cameroon and defatted cocoa powder. … Read More

Nut prices in the US increase

Pistachio prices reached an all time high at the end of 2013, while California English walnut and US almond import prices are on the increase. The rise is due to an unexpectedly small crop and a stronger consumer demand for … Read More

Tanis Food Tec’s technological developments

Tanis Food Tec (TFT) of the Netherlands has supplied machinery for a new line producing nutritional 5-grain biscuits with yoghurt cream and chocolate fillings.

TFT’s latest technology provides an integrated and fully automatic cleaning system to clean the fillings … Read More