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Meet the winner of the Inspirational Bakery Contest

The winner of Founding Sponsors Ardent Mills’ inaugural Inspirational Bakery Contest (formerly known as the Jake the Baker) contest inspired the judges with its innovative pivot to survive. Watch it here:


Best Kind Bakery

Environmentally-conscious baking caught the Founding Sponsors Ardent Mills eye: From local deliveries, to tightly timed baking ensuring there was no food wasted, learn how Best Kind lives up to its name.


Ontario bakeries to expect more inspections

Ontario government is expanding inspections of manufacturing and food processing workplaces, warehouses and distribution centres in an effort to curb COVID.


AMF Bakery Systems names new director of sales

The new sales director will support sales of AMF’s growing portfolio of bakery solutions for soft bread and bun, artisan bread, pizza and flatbread, cake and pie, as well as pastry and croissant production.


Palsgaard unveils new PGPR for chocolate makers

The company’s latest polyglycerol polyricinoleate reduces viscocity and optimizes flow for chocolate spreads and enrobed and moulded products.


Weston enters automatic share purchase plan

George Weston Ltd announced its entry to an automatic share purchase plan (“ASPP”) to repurchase its common shares under its normal course issuer bid.
 
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Gram-Accurate Oil-Free Dough Dividing At Its Best!

The SE 442-1 Rotary Divider is a workhorse that safely reduces giveaway, virtually eliminates rework and is hygienically designed to make sanitation simple and changeovers fast. The servo-driven Handtmann Rotary Dough Divider scales a range of dough products in 30 mm to 95 mm diameters with +/-1% accuracy at up to 200 ppm. It's unique undercut function reliably increases precision to let you adjust cutting speeds for different dough densities. » Learn more
 
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Food Banks Canada releases COVID-19 response fund impact report

Commercial bakeries, food industries and consumers alike came together in record numbers to help food banks across Canada during the first year of the pandemic. » Read more...
 

New CFO for Kwik Lok Corporation

Kwik Lok Corporation announced a new chief financial officer (CFO). » Read more...
 

Labour shortage and automation: Are cobots for your bakery?

Are cobots useful tools in reducing repetitive motion strain, or do they diminish the craft of baking? Join the food experts from Annex Business Media and Jamie Bobyk of Apex Motion Control as they discuss the controversy of automation. » Read more...
 

Ardent Mills completes acquisition

The company successfully completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hinrichs Trading Company, the North American chickpea sourcing, cleaning and packaging company. » Listen now...
 

Greece wins Masters of Pastry 2021

Giannis Tsichlis and Vagelis Kallioras have won the Masters of Pastry title for 2021. » Read more...
 
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Art of Chocolatier: Classic Confections to Sensational Showpieces

Covering the full spectrum of chocolate work-from the fundamentals of chocolate making to instruction on advanced showpiece design and assembly-The Art of the Chocolatier is the most complete and comprehensive guide to chocolate-making on the market. The book covers basic information on ingredients, equipment, and common techniques in the pastry kitchen, while also offering clear, step-by-step instructions on creating small candies and large-scale chocolate pieces.

This is the ideal book for pastry students enrolled in chocolate and confectionery courses, as well as working professionals and even serious home confectioners who want to improve their skills in advanced chocolate work. » Shop now