During Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) inspections, the most commonly found nonconformities are associated with food-safety maintenance. 

So many features, so many conveniences, same-day delivery, more compact equipment, accessible websites on which to find and purchase equipment and products, easy-to-use mobile apps—customers want more because consumers want it all.

Ballreich Bros.’ 75,000-sq.-ft. potato chip and snack plant churns out 2,000-5,000 lb. of product an hour. Manufacturing product on a just-in-time basis, the family owned and operated company in Tiffin, Ohio, also produces new Sweet Potato Chips and shoestring Potato Sticks in three flavors.

Weston Foods purchases Rubschlager Baking Corp., a Chicago bakery known for its authentic rye breads and other products.

The Chicago-based bakery opens a 2,000-sq.-ft. R&D center within its Schaumburg, Ill., facility. The state-of-the-art center will further Gonnella’s commitment to improving processes and develop products for changing market demands.

ConAgra, Cargill and CHS sell four mills to Miller Milling to move forward with the Ardent Mills joint venture.

Rani's NutraFoods, a  Michigan grab-and-go  food manufacturer, conquers new market  territory with a fresh packaging design, new  net weighing and filling equipment and help from the PACK EXPO International show.

The company has opened a new 63,000-sq.-ft. food-grade grain-processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., that produces MeadowPure flaxseed ingredients as well as a growing portfolio of chia, quinoa and other ancient grain ingredient solutions.

New and redesigned pan-handling equipment, pans and pan coatings can help bakers and snack producers address production costs, downtime, changeover times and a host of other issues.

Wisconsin-based Jack Link’s purchases Unilever’s meat snacks business, primarily sold under the BiFi and Peperami brands in Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland.