Each year, Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery reports on hundreds of the new snack and bakery products released to the American market. The most-popular products of the year earn a slot in our annual “Best New Snack & Bakery Products” review, conducted by SF&WB and BEMA staff.

Multi-Conveyor recently built a set of sanitary food-grade conveyors that combine dual lanes of cup-size containers to feed an existing metal detector.  

Fortress Technology has revealed an innovative inspection metal detector that allows food manufacturers to detect thin, flat metal flakes in their products using a dual electromagnetic system.

Snack food and wholesale bakery companies in the market for machines that help prepare, store, transport, and otherwise handle ingredients are most focused on qualities like automation, ease of maintenance, and the ability to deliver higher performance in throughput and accuracy.

Innovation is prevalent in the area of closing and bagging equipment as well as twist ties, clips, zippers and package resealing. Thanks to product introductions and equipment upgrades, these systems run faster and are easier to use. 

The BBU Big Bag Unloader from process equipment manufacturer Gericke USA, Somerset, NJ, is available in an ATEX-compliant design to allow safe operation in hazardous storage and process environments and promote workplace safety. 

Warehouse software is important for snack and bakery companies, in order to keep track of the comings and goings of products inside their warehouses.

Gerard Daniel Worldwide is pleased to roll out its line of Performance Series vibratory separator machines.

Piab’s new BGX bag handling suction cup has been specially developed to be the perfect bag picker for flimsy and oversized bags addressing the challenges presented by this application. 

Lower profile design enables easier installation and better performance.