Last March Interamerican Foods Corp. held a grand opening ceremony for its La Moderna pasta plant in Cleburne, Texas. The $50 million, 150,000-squarefoot facility is La Moderna’s first in th... Read more

Campbell Soup Co. and General Mills, Inc. announced initiatives suggesting deepening interest in how the grain they use is grown. Campbell Soup announced plans in its annual corporate respon... Read more

Demand for milling and feed wheat in the Philippines is expected to increase in 2018-19 due to considerable investments in the domestic flour and feed milling industries, according to Global... Read more

Demaco was recognized for its safety program by the United Safety Council on Friday, March 23 during the 65th Annual Safety Awards Banquet at the Citrus Club in Orlando. At the ceremony, Dem... Read more

In an exploration of how millennial consumers’ purchasing patterns differ from older generations, the Usda discovered that this generation devotes a smaller share of its food expenditures on grains than the three older generations probed in the survey. Overall, the grains category in 2014 accounted for 9.6% of millennial (consumers born between 1981 and 1996) spending on food at home, versus 10.4, 11.3 and 10.7%, for Gen X’ers (born 1965-1980), baby boomers (1946-64) and traditionalists (born pre-1946), respectively.  (more…)

Consumer concern about processed foods, and the desire for natural produce has led to consumers adding more fruit and vegetables to their diet. Lactose has also received negative press, linked with digestive issues. This makes clean label vegan foods attractive to health-conscious consumers; observes GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. (more…)

Martin Ellegast has been named manager of sales and marketing for the grain milling business unit of Bühler AG. He holds an engineering degree in mechanical engineering/process engineering and an Executive Mba. During his studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance, he became acquainted with Bühler as an intern and wrote his thesis about the company. (more…)

Indofood Sukses Makmur, one of Indonesia’s largest food companies and the country’s largest integrated flour miller, plans to build a new flour mill in Cibitung (West Java) for the company’s Bogasari milling unit. (more…)