BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$37.5M
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
Caravan Ingredients was formed in 2006 when Caravan Products and American Ingredients merged to form one operating company. The combination of the two companies allows greater strength and expertise in both baking and other functional ingredients, resulting in a stronger focus to the industries we serve. Together we have over 100 years of business experience and a proven track record in both baking and functional ingredients. We offer a full range of benefits for milling, bakery manufacturing, specialty baking, large institutional accounts, processed food and industrial applications. In addition, in January of 2007, Caravan Ingredients acquired the Specialty Bakery Ingredients Business from Archers Daniels Midland (ADM). Caravan Ingredients extensive line of products for a variety of breads include versatile sours, bread emulsifiers, stabilizers, shelf life extenders, dough improvers, dough strengtheners, and variety bread mixes. All complemented by our gourmet sweet line of cake mixes and icings. This expertise is now assisting many bakers in the production of upscale artisan breads, grain bread, tortillas, stabilizers, enrichers, cremes and flavor enhanced products that are bringing new consumer excitement to baking. A large network of distributors offers ease of ordering and convenient product availability. We not only produce bakery ingredients, but also functional ingredients for processed foods and additives for polymers and other industrial industries. ...
President
Ron AshtonNumber of Employees 75
Contact Information
3947 Broadway St
Kansas City, Missouri 64111-2516
(816) 561-9050
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Flour Mixes and Dough Manufacturing from Purchased Flour: 311822
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American Ingredients Uses Artisan Evaporator/Stripper™ to Improve Monoglyceride Production
- 2007-03-07
WALTHAM, Mass. -- American Ingredients, a leading supplier of food emulsifiers, was using vertical wiped-film evaporators to recover monoglyceride. The process required recycle during startup to achieve product purity, yield was marginal, and frequent shutdown for mechanical repair was raising operating costs. So they turned to Artisan Industries to...
Four corners: Native American ingredients, Spanish culture, microbrews and more meet at this crossroads
- 2007-02-19
Hopi legend has it that, early in the life of their people, when the different tribes were selecting corn, the Hopis were slow to act and got the last ear, which was stubby and blue. Most people have more hopeful legends of their beginnings, but perhaps when you find...
High-speed mixing.(IN process: technology and manufacturing solutions)
- 2007-01-01
Breddo Likwifier, a division of American Ingredients Company, introduced its high speed/high shear mixers at Pack Expo 2006. The company offers blenders from 25-gallon to 400-gallon sizes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Industry suppliers cross reference
- 2006-12-01
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First thanksgiving likely a British meal
- 2006-11-01
Thanksgiving is considered the quintessential American holiday, but the food prepared by the pilgrims in 1621 likely was more British than New World, according to a visiting professor of English literature at Duke University, Durham, N.C. Despite the inclusion of uniquely American ingredients such as corn and cranberries, the...
Breddo Likwifier div. of American Ingredients—Booth 6928
- 2006-09-01
The Breddo Likwifier is designed to dissolve solids or semisolids where time, temperature and complete hydration are important. Originally developed to dissolve natural gums and synthetic thickeners used in the manufacture of frozen desserts, the Likwifier dissolves and disperses virtually any food product more efficiently and completely than any other...
New course (of action) for White House chef
- 2006-08-03
Walter Scheib is talking and cooking - in public - and reveling in the freedom that came with leaving his job as executive chef at the White House. "I've always liked to talk. Now I can do it for a living," said the tall, trim chef whose dark good...
Nurture, Inc., American Ingredients partner
- 2006-05-01
Nurture Inc., Devon, PA, has formed a sales agent and distribution partnership with American Ingredients, Inc., Anaheim, CA, a division of Pharmachem Laboratories. The agreement will provide OatVantage customers with increased access to the formulation skill of Pharmachem Laboratories, which is the parent company of American Ingredients.
AMERICAN FOOD; How we came to eat what we eat.(BOOKS)
- 2005-08-28
Byline: Claire Hopley, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES It is a truth insufficiently acknowledged that a people planning a society must establish a food supply. This truism was not lost on the European immigrants who poured into America in the 17th and 18th centuries....
Pharmachem Laboratories: Pharmachem celebrates 25th anniversary
- 2005-03-01
Value-Added Products and Services Key to Company's Success Pharmachem Laboratories, Kearny, NJ, a major supplier and manufacturer of nutritional ingredients, was incorporated in 1980 by David Holmes. The official incorporation took place shortly after Holmes purchased Stanley Blackman Laboratories, a nutritional supplements business, where he was employed. Holmes made...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Ron Ashton | President |
| J. Krichiver | Vice President, Finance & Admin |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Ron Thomas | Chairperson |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Ingredients Company | President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Ingredients Company | Vice President, Finance & Admin | Current |
Ronnie Thomas joined the staff of former Local 576 in June 1991. Prior to employment with the local union, he worked for Wilson Foods in Marshall, Missouri for 17 years. Ron is chairperson on the Steering Committees for Sara Lee Foods and American Ingredients. He is a delegate to the St. Joseph Labor Council and the St. Joseph Labor Management Council, as well as serving on the Local Two Executive Board.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Ingredients Company | Chairperson | Current |
| Sara Lee Foods | Chairperson | Current |
| Ufcw Local Two | Board of Directors | Current |
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