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A celebration that takes the cake!

What takes 1575 eggs, 90kgs of cake flour and 4kg of baking powder to produce, weighs roughly half a ton and looks uncannily like the fresh-from-the-factory Boeing 737-800? It’s an ultra-realistic replica of the state-of-the-art airliner made by Paul Vieira and his team at Cake Extreme.

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Industry Profile: Warrens Bakery – A Stunning Success Story

Warrens Bakery, one of the UK’s leading craft bakeries and the world’s oldest pasty maker, appears at number 32 in this year’s Top 150 Companies in Devon and Cornwall in the Western Morning News’ Annual Business Guide 2016. With expansion this year across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, as well as a new store opening in Bristol, it’s no surprise the bakery, which employs approximately 500 people and has undergone an extensive rebrand across 51 stores, has had a hugely successful year.

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Ingredion launches new line of fibers

Ingredion Inc. has introduced its Versafibe dietary fiber series, a line of low cost-in-use dietary fibers designed to add fiber and reduce calories in applications. Versafibe 2470 and Versafibe 1490 are both insoluble resistant starch ingredients that work in low-moisture applications such as bread, crackers, cookies, pasta, noodles and extruded products.

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Grain-based industry solutions

Ardent Mills, a Denver, Colorado-based company, recently showcased some of its latest grain-based industry solutions at the 2016 International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE), including a line of clean label flours, ancient grains and new heirloom wheats, as well as sprouted wheat and new sprouted wheat blends.

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GEA’s MIone wins SA Milk Producers Organisation Innovation Award

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Darren Hutcheson receives the award on behalf of GEA

GEA’s state-of-the-art MIone automatic milking system has won the annual Dairy Mail / MPO Innovation Award for 2016. GEA Southern & Eastern Africa recently sold and installed the first MIone AMDF system in Africa. Using cutting-edge technology, it is specifically designed for medium to large sized herds, which is the predominant herd size in South Africa. The cow-friendly system ensures improved milk production and optimal fertility.

Cryogenic Solutions for Bakeries

Addressing the challenges of bakery production, Linde LLC recently highlighted proprietary cryogenic solutions at IBIE 2016 that can simultaneously boost throughput, improve product quality and help extend shelf-life for a range of baked goods from par-baked artisan breads to chilled cookie dough and quick-frozen pizzas. Featured solutions included the family of CRYOLINE® MT modular tunnel freezers, the CRYOLINE® XF cross-flow spiral freezer, the ACCU-CHILL® dry ingredient chilling system, and the Linde impingement freezer.

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Customizable Spiral Cage Conveyor Belts for Baking

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Cambridge Engineered Solutions, the world’s largest manufacturer of metal conveyor belts, unveiled Variable Cambri-Link® and Variable DuraLite®, two of the most highly customizable conveyor belts available for spiral cage applications to proof, cool and freeze baked goods such as bagels, breads and pizza shells as well as packaged foods, including ice cream and frozen entrees, at the recent International Baking Industry Exhibition (IBIE 2016).

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