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The Manufacturing Confectioner • February 2015 63

NEWSMAKERS

Markus Eckert new VP flavor at TakasagoMarkus Eckert, PhD, has joinedTakasago International USA as its vicepresident flavor creation and technology.

Eckert has more than 25 years ofexperience in developing and commer-cializing new flavors, encapsulation sys-tems and process technologies. Hisbackground includes positions withKerry Ingredients & Flavors, Dragoco, Bush Boake Allen,IFF and Danisco.

Takasago International is a global flavor and fragrancecompany based in Japan.

Markus Eckert, PhD

Chocotech GmbH exhibits at ProSweetsChocotech provides cooking systems for jelly, fondant,caramel, fudge, hard candy, chewy candy, fruit snacks andkrokant, as well as barline kitchens and aeration systems.For chocolate processing they offer the Frozenshell linewith Pralimat depositing, lentil forming and enrobing.

At ProSweets 2015 in Cologne they exhibited theenergy-saving Ecograv flexible gravimetric weighing unitwith a buffer and an integrated con-tinuous dissolver, for hard candies,chewy candies, fondants and cookedsugar solutions for bars.

The Jellymaster system producesjelly products using a wide range ofjellifying agents such as gelatin,starch, pectin, gum arabic, agar agarand carrageenan. The Jellymix gravi-metric weighing and feeding systemcan work with up to eight differentcolors and flavors, and can also handle aerated foam.

The Chocoform PSL (drop line) plant for manufactur-ing chocolate centers suchas lentils, balls and eggs wasdisplayed in its new design,which allows simpleexchange of the drop rollsfor rapid product change -over. A new precooling sys-tem gives an additional 50percent product throughput.

www.chocotech.de

Ecograv

Chocoform PSL 800

Plan Automation new sales agent forCavanna in CanadaCavanna Packaging USA has appointed Plan Automationas their sales agent for Canada. Plan Automation will rep-resent Cavanna’s flow-wrapping systems and packagingtechnology to producers of cookies, crackers, confec-tionery, snacks, bread, pharmaceuticals and pet food in allprovinces of Canada.

www.planautomation.com

Dana joins MFG as executive VPMolded Fiber Glass Companies hasannounced that Charles E. (Chuck)Dana will be joining MFG as an execu-tive vice president and member of thesenior leadership team, reportingdirectly to president and CEO RichardS. Morrison, effective April 1, 2015.

Dana is expected to serve in the roleof executive vice president until he succeeds Morrison asCEO in 2016, after which time Morrison will continue asexecutive chairman of the board.

Most recently Dana was president of Owens Corning’sBuilding Materials Group in Toledo, Ohio,

Prior to his role at Owens Corning, Dana spent 17 yearsin a variety of managerial and executive roles with GeneralElectric Company.

Charles E. Dana

Chocolates and Confectionsby Peter P. Greweling

and the Culinary Institute of America

Featuring formulas, theories and techniquesfor the artisan confectioner, Chocolates and

Confections. Full-color photographs of tech-niques and finished desserts. Two hundred for-mulas for sugar confections, a variety ofconfectionery centers, aerated candies, jelliesand more. Confectionery packaging and stor-age tips also included, as is a glossary and ex-planation of pertinent ingredients.Second edition. 534 pages

$65 per copy

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