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Exhibitor press release

backaldrin celebrates 60 years of BakeAromaSour (BAS®)

It’s a year of celebrations at backaldrin. Besides the company’s 60th anniversary, its flagship brand, the Original Kornspitz, is also celebrating its 40th birthday. But there is another product celebrating a round birthday: BakeAromaSour (BAS®).

Expertise

Whitepaper: Elevate Bakery Production with Continuous Systems

Efficiency, scalability, and unmatched quality define the apex of success in commercial baking. Explore our whitepaper on AMF BakeTech’s Continuous Proofer & Oven Systems and learn how to elevate Bakery Production with Continuous Systems.

Product-Highlight

Luxurious gas oven for pizza & pastries

Discover the Luxurious Series 100 gas oven for first-class pizza and pastry production. High-quality stainless steel, certified burners and a basalt baking surface make it ideal for restaurants and hotels. Find out how this oven can optimize your baking performance.

Product-Highlight

Master Baking Perfection with Farhat's Ovens

Dive into the world of baking with Farhat Bakery Equipment: Our innovative oven series delivers perfect baking results for every need. Learn about the unique features of our ovens and revolutionize your baking. Click to read more and discover the future of baking!

Product-Highlight

Bandall rental solutions for bakeries

Our banding machines enable bakeries and pastry shops to use environmentally friendly packaging that is ecologically and aesthetically pleasing. Test our technology flexibly with rental and leasing options - without a high initial investment!

Product-Highlight

Increased efficiency in a large bakery

Discover how Goodway Technologies reduced cleaning time at a Maine bakery from 48 to just four hours per week thanks to the PureBelt Modular System and the GVC-18000 steam cleaner. Find out more and increase the efficiency of your production systems!

Expertise Health

Health and Wellness Trends in Commercial Baking

Explore the latest insights on emerging flavors, products, and consumer attitudes towards health and wellness in the bakery category with a panel of U.S. baking industry executives.

Expertise Health

BARLEYmax®: making the healthy choice the tasty choice.

BARLEYmax is a barley that is packed with nutrients (prebiotic fibres such as beta glucan, insoluble fibre, resistant starch; vitamins, minerals and protein).

Expertise Health

Myths and beliefs on bread & nutrition: Discover main insights from Baking with Lesaffre

As food (including bread) is increasingly seen as a contributor to good nutrition, consumers are paying attention to the quality of what they eat: transformation processes, origins, types of ingredients...

Expertise Health

Bread in professional soccer? This is how athletes eat.

How do professional athletes eat and what do they need to pay particular attention to?

Expertise Health

Benexia introduce a Novel Food from Chia, for healthy, natural and functional baking

Benexia introduces a new high-protein fibre powder from Chia Seed on the European Market: Benexia Xia Powder 435 W LM. This ingredient earned a Novel Food status, offering a new protein and fibre enrichment ingredient in bakery applications.

Expertise Turnkey solutions

Price risk management in times of volatile commodity markets - overview of the status quo

The commodity markets have been fluctuating massively not only since the war in Ukraine. This situation poses huge challenges for the entire industry.

Expertise Quality management

Designing for Greatness

"Designing for Greatness" means intentionally incorporating sanitation, people safety, and serviceability into the equipment design.

Expertise Turnkey solutions

Lean Manufacturing and the U.S. Commercial Baking Industry

Lean manufacturing practices in the US commercial baking industry are vital to maximizing productivity and minimizing waste.

Expertise Quality management

Firefly Preventive and Protective Solutions for the Baking Industry

Baked products are exposed to high temperatures from ovens. Taking into account that almost all baked products have ignition temperatures very close to the average oven operation temperature, there is a constant latent risk that products will burn.

Exhibitor press release

Two milestones, one passion: 60 years backaldrin and 40 years Kornspitz®

2024 is a special year for backaldrin and the Original Kornspitz. The baking ingredients manufacturer from Asten is celebrating not only its 60th anniversary but also the 40th birthday of Austria’s crispiest ambassador. The company has guaranteed consistent quality since its founding, and continu

Expertise Digitalisation

Effective production logistics and smart production service für dough production

AGV-supported automation of dough production: The term AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) describes a driverless, floor-bound transport vehicle. Equipped with state of-the-art navigation systems, AGVs transport raw materials and products with precision and efficiency within defined workflows.

Expertise Digitalisation

Cooperative Digital - The AI Solution for german Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG)

The Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz came into effect on January 1, 2023. This law establishes, for the first time, corporate responsibility for ensuring the respect of human rights within supply chains.

Expertise Digitalisation

Future-proofing in the bakery trade: Intelligent technologies for bakeries and bakery shops

Detect out-of-stock situations at an early stage and reduce food waste using smart shelves with integrated weighing sensors.

Expertise Digitalisation

Artificial intelligence used sensibly in the bakery

The sensible use of artificial intelligence in bakeries can optimise processes and increase efficiency.

Expertise Digitalisation

AI, IOT, Apps: How will digital innovation change marketing & communication in the bakery sector?

Although artificial intelligence has been in development for decades, it was until recently reserved to some happy few and often focused on security, predictions, augmented reality.

Expertise Digitalisation

Robots and Cobots in the baked and food products lines. Where and Why?

Robots are not only suitable to stack boxes!

Expertise Digitalisation

AI in the bakery - increase turnover, relieve employees & the environment

Whether it’s to counterbalance the lack of skilled workers or to prevent overproduction - Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a valuable assistant in bakeries.

Expertise Digitalisation

Maintenance support through connectivity - Smart Services on FRITSCH lines

"With the FRITSCH Smart Services customers can monitor the key performance data of their production line in real-time. This allows users to perform predictive maintenance on the line to avoid equipment downtime.