Articles Tagged with ''dairy processing news''

Sargento Foods Inc. this week announced several personnel changes. Among them:Bob Strickland was hired as national customer business manager for Costco and Laura Meyer as customer research manager. Vince Juneau was promoted to consumer research manager for Walmart and Sam’s club team.

Agropur is investing more than $100 million in its Luxemburg plant in Wisconsin in order to significantly increase the production capacity. 

Developed as a natural replacement for synthetic dyes and aluminum lakes, Microfine powders are a major evolution in natural colors for applications including dry mix beverages, compressed sweets and confectioneries, and powdered food applications

The award was given by Dannon after having evaluated all suppliers to the company in 2011. One of the parameters that Dannon highlights in the collaboration with GEA Process Engineering is the ability to deliver state-of-the-art solutions, listening to the customer, as well as being on time and budget. These features are immensely important to Dannon. 

The Franklin Food West facility greatly expands manufacturing capacity for Franklin's rapidly growing Food Service, Industrial, Retail, Private Label and International businesses. This new production capacity will also be used to meet consumer demand for Franklin's recently launched Greek Cream Cheese. New modern technology has been acquired and will be installed to accelerate the company's Mission to "Re-Invent Cream Cheese for Today's Consumers."

Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fortitech, Inc. (Fortitech) in an all cash transaction for a total enterprise value of $634 million (about €495 million). 

A student from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, is the grand prize winner in a contest that sought to bring a fresh perspective to the world of packaging design. The entry from FIT junior Jennifer Ahern of Philadelphia, featured a more abstract approach to iconic cow images, focused on appealing to contemporary shoppers. ”I was inspired by the edgy drawings of Picasso and I wanted to design something that the customer would be attracted to,” Ahern said. “

On Friday, Nov. 2, Zentis said it acquired the Sweet Ovations LLC from Speyside Equity, a private equity firm. Sweet Ovations has a manufacturing facility in Philadelphia and one near Los Angeles. Zentis has a facility in Plymouth, Ind. 

Barbara O’Brien, president of the checkoff-funded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, said fluid milk “is now at a crossroads” following four decades of declining sales.

“There are solutions,” O’Brien said. “But we need the will and commitment (of the industry) to carry them out.”