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Breedlove

Bulk bag handling for humanitarian food relief

Breedlove Foods Inc. increases its shelf-stable packages for humanitarian food relief with an automated bulk handling system from Flexicon

Breedlove installed an automated bulk handling system that boosted production of its Lentil and Vegetable Blend product more than sevenfold while improving worker safety.


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AK Pizza Crust

Document management helps increase efficiency

When AK Pizza Crust needed to improve its accounts payable process as its business grew, it turned to The Priton Group LLC for a solution.

Rapid growth at AK Pizza Crust increased demand on its accounts payable process. They turned to The Priton Group for a solution.


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Selecting Synthetic, Natural Colors

It's color that first tells the consumer that a food or beverage is flavorful and desirable
The past 30 years have seen the market demand for food colorants changing in substantial ways, particularly regarding the choice between synthetic and natural colorants. Not so long ago, synthetic colorants were preferred because of several benefits: They are easy to use, deliver bright colors in a variety of food matrices, and perform in consistent and predictable ways. Moreover, they are inexpensive to use.
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Enhancing Cheese Product Formulations

Playing to the universal and indefatigable craving for cheese brings unlimited possibilities to formulators
Any culinarian can tell you, if you want to move an item or entice customers with a new product, bring cheese into the picture and consumer interest immediately shoots up. What would a Mexican or Italian item be without cheese? And why is it around half of the 50 billion hamburgers Americans eat every year get topped with cheese?
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Herbs, Spices, and Flavorings Add Adventure, Taste, Health, and Color

Chefs strive to please an increasingly adventurous, yet demanding, consumer
Now that the annual season of pumpkin spice, peppermint hot chocolate, and other holiday flavors of fall and winter has passed, research chefs and product developers are gearing up to embrace the food and flavor trend predictions for the new year. Eager to mine those predictions for nuggets of inspiration that will lead to new ideas and flavor profiles, chefs strive to please an increasingly adventurous, yet demanding, consumer.
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Product Makers Pick Fruit to Add Flavor, Health to Formulations

Adding fruit to formulations has become not only easier, but more exciting with the continuously expanding variety of fruits to choose from and the near disappearance of seasonality
With consumers now taking a closer look at better health through nutrition, fruit products are among the first ingredients they turn to. They rightly associate plant-heavy, produce-centric diets as a primary preventive measure against disease.
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ICBS

Bakery supply company streamlines with ERP solution

Inter-County Bakery Supply modernized and automated its processes with an ERP solution from Vormittag Associates Inc. (VAI)

When Inter-County Bakery Supply, a family-owned bakery supply distributor in Deer Park, N.Y., needed to modernize its process and automate its capabilities, they decided an ERP solution from VAI that would offer the most bang for their buck.


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Biron Teas brings batch mixing in house

Mini mixer from Munson Machinery allowed Georgia-based tea company to expand and help other tea purveyors.

Mixing teas requires gentle handling at each phase. Find out how this mini mixer helps Biron Teas expand its business.


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C&M Seeds turns to Luxme for conveying solution

Dust control, durability and maintenance concerns were key criteria

C&M Seeds needed conveyors to meet its dust control, durability and maintenance needs, as well as avoiding cross-contamination. The company chose Luxme to meet its conveying needs.


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