SUPPLIER NEWS

Jake Schieffer is taking on a new role within Beckhoff USA as vice president of sales. This promotion results from Schieffer’s significant successes as regional director – Midwest. In the newly created national position, he will continue to promote business alignment throughout the sales organization and accelerate growth across the U.S. Based at the Beckhoff USA headquarters office in the Minneapolis area, Schieffer reports to President Kevin Barker.

Bundy Baking Solutions announced two new members of the leadership team for American Pan in Europe. The company continues to expand its leadership team to better serve its customers across Europe. The new members include Les Boggild, senior advisor, and Kelvin Mather, director of technical compliance.

Tate & Lyle PLC has launched a fiber calculator to help raise awareness to the population’s "fiber gap." While the health benefits of fiber are becoming more widely known, intake remains low. The new fiber calculator tool from Tate & Lyle, created in partnership with the British Nutrition Foundation, asks users eight questions to assess their current eating habits, before giving them an overall fiber score, and offering simple tips and personalized advice about how to increase their fiber consumption.

FoodChain ID has integrated its product portfolio under the FoodChain ID brand to provide customers with a single point of contact for accurate data and market-specific insights. Through extensive market research, FoodChain ID found that the tight labor market, waning institutional knowledge, and increasing market demands were cited as challenges for food and agricultural companies seeking specialized knowledge and digital solutions to maintain product safety and compliance. FoodChain ID has responded by integrating its service offerings to ensure clients have easy access to critical expertise that helps keep the food supply chain safe and transparent.

September 30 marked the 120th birthday for ADM, formally known as Archer-Daniels-Midland Company. ADM was incorporated on Sept. 30, 1902, in Minneapolis as a regional linseed oil business. Today, ADM—with 41,000 employees serving customers in nearly 200 countries—is a global agricultural supply chain manager and processor, a human and animal nutrition company, and works to support healthier living and sustainability.

Ndustrial, the only production-first Energy Intensity company, and M&M Carnot / Logix, businesses in high-efficiency industrial refrigeration systems, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver advanced refrigeration products and processes to continuously improve operations and boost margins across cold storage warehouses and food processing facilities. The integration leverages Ndustrial’s proprietary software interface and establishes a direct data feed with the M&M Carnot Control System, Logix Refrigeration Control Systems, and associated data.

Triangle Package Machinery Co. has promoted John Cooke (former Eastern regional sales manager) to director of sales. Cooke has been with Triangle for 18 years as a direct employee and represented them for 12 years prior. With 30-plus years of experience, he is a seasoned packaging machinery professional. His industry knowledge and relationships, paired with experience with Triangle equipment, reportedly will allow him to hit the ground running in this new role.

Grote Company is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Founded in 1972 by Jim Grote to help bring automation to his first company, Donatos Pizza, the company has grown from one small factory to eight locations worldwide, employing more than 300 workers. Bob Grote joined the company 22 years ago and became CEO in 2008. His brother Jack Grote joined the business in 2011 and serves as chief operating officer. Now, Bob Grote looks forward to the future with the family’s third generation, as his son Jack has also joined the company as sales manager for its Vanmark arm.

Aptean has announced the acquisition of Frontix BV, a provider of cloud-based overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and energy management solutions to process manufacturers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and more than a dozen other countries across the globe. Founded in 1999 and based in the Netherlands, Frontix’s OEE and energy monitoring solutions are used in more than 200 production facilities. Frontix’s OEE solution is complementary to Aptean’s existing offerings to process manufacturers in Benelux and will enhance the company’s ability to serve clients.

Lesaffre is making it easier for customers to navigate its growing portfolio of ingredient solutions with the launch of its new website, LesaffreBaking.com. In addition to yeast, Lesaffre supplies clean label dough improvers, enzymes, bases, fortification, sourdoughs, toppings, malts, and more. To help customers find the best solutions to their baking challenges, Lesaffre’s new website features a robust product filtering tool that allows users to sort products by type, solution, application, process, and brand.