Baking Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds (BEMA) expands its educational platform to include an ingredients panel at its 2012 annual meeting. Members of the panel include Charlie Moon, Flowers Foods, and Hayden Wands, Bimbo Bakeries USA.
In order to align the company’s workforces around the world, Rich Products implements a new organizational structure and forms a U.S./Canada region. Separately, Blue Diamond Growers constructs a 200,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in Turlock, Calif.
Food packaging equipment provider tna moves David Townsend up to group projects manager, a new ‘hands on’ role. Townsend will closely monitor all projects, encourage knowledge sharing and actively support project managers globally.
PhotoFrost launches Cut-N-Frost Sheets, edible icing sheets made from specially blended frosting that can be used to create borders, patterns and other cake decorations.
A new partnership between Viachem and AkzoNobel includes sales and marketing for AkzoNobel’s Akucell line of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) food additives. The efforts target bakeries as well as other food and processed food manufacturers that use specialty ingredients and food additives in their products.
Save the date for the American Bakers Association’s annual convention, April 14 -18, 2012. The ABA will once again meet in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Grain Foods Foundation (GFF) will present a discussion on April 15, during the Board of Governors meeting to illustrate its successes this year.