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.
The Minnetonka, Minn.-based food solutions and potassium chloride supplier strikes a deal with Barentz Europe B.V., which is present in 26 countries in Europe, to distribute its Advanced Formula potassium chloride to food manufacturers in Europe. Nu-Tek says that governments in the U.K. and the Netherlands are close to making mandatory rules regarding sodium levels in food products with the aim to reduce high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
Applications are due July 31 for America's Best Raisin Bread Contest (ABRBC). Professional bakers are encouraged to register for the 5th Annual America’s Best Raisin Bread Contest, hosted by the California Raisin Marketing Board.
Children’s nutrition, food safety, cleaner labels and affordable ingredients that will enable food manufacturers to create flavorful products with less sugar, sodium and no gluten or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were just some of the food issues addressed at the 2012 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo, June 25-28, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Packaging solutions provider tna, Sydney, Australia, has acquired The Cadalec Group. A specialist in electrical and control system integration, the United Kingdom-based company brings more than 20 years of expertise in software and hardware design, consultancy and project management to tna.
Enreco Inc., Newton, Wis., completed the sale of its flaxseed milling and bulk distribution assets today, retaining its Omega Fields retail products distribution division, which markets Omega 3-rich supplements for human and animal nutrition worldwide. Grain Millers Inc., Eden Prairie, Minn., assumed ownership of Enreco's intellectual and physical property, excluding Omega Fields, on June 20.