Member Companies
OFPA highly diversified industries include:
• Processors and manufacturers of food products.
• Food machinery, container and equipment industries.
• Food marketing, transportation and service industries.
• Raw products and associated agricultural industries.
• Food ingredients, chemicals and supply industries.
• Other food associated industries.
Additional membership information:
• Directory of Member Companies
• Membership Directory Form (online and printable PDF)
| Allens, Inc. Gerber Products Co. |
| Ball Corporation Bay Valley Foods |
Bryant Preserving Co., Inc. Riceland Foods, Inc. |
Tyson Foods, Inc. |
ConAgra Foods, Inc. |
House of Webster, Inc. Leon C. Osborn MS Delta Brokerage, LLP Razorback Farms, Inc. |
Smurfit Stone Container Corp. Syngenta Seeds, Inc. Synergy Tech |
| Advanced Environmental Recycling .. ..Technology B.A.G.Corporation Bell Flavors & Fragrances Brotherton Seed Company Central Produce Sales, Inc. Chestnut Labs Crown Cork & Seal Co. (USA), Inc. Delaval Cleaning Solutions D.E.P., Inc. Dompe Warehouse/Ben Fish & Son DSI Process Systems FMC Corporation-Ag Products Group FMC FoodTech, Food Processing ..Systems Forbo Adhesives LLC / Swift Products Griffith Laboratories Heartland Supply Co., Inc The Hughes Company, Inc. Illes Seasonings & Flavors Industrial Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. |
Innova Flavors International Dehydrated ..Foods, Inc. Intralox, Inc. Jones-Neitzel Co. Kerry Flavors & Fragrances Key Technology, Inc. Magnuson Corp. & ..CCM Industries MOL Industries Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. Nationwide Agribusiness New Way Packaging ..Machinery, Inc. Oxbo International Pak-Tec, Inc. Pel-Freez Arkansas, LLC Pepper Source LTD The Pictsweet Company Post Familie Vineyards ..& Winery |
Pure Line Seeds, Inc. Ross Industries Seminis Vegetable Seeds Texamerican Food Marketing 3M Microbiology Triangle Package Machinery ..Co. Tri-Temp Distribution, LLC Unilever BestFoods Urschel Laboratories, Inc. The Wax Company, Inc. Whallon Machinery, Inc. Whitewater Technologies, LLC Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc. Wire Belt Co. of America Zero Mountain |
SUSTAINING MEMBERS
• Allens, Inc.
PO Box 250, Siloam Springs, AR 72761
Phone: 479-524-6431 Fax: 479-524-3291
Key Personnel
Chairman/CEO: Roderick L. Allen
VP Operations & Raw Products: Josh Allen
Executive VP: Nick Allen
Senior VP Sales: Mike Hubbard
VP Quality & Research: Earl Wells
VP Inventory: Rod Penner
VP Corporate Services: James Phillips
VP Production: John Williams
VP Retail Sales & Marketing: Bobby Ray
VP Traffic: Bob Rush
Products or Services
Canned vegetables, shoestring potato sticks, frozen vegetables and vegetable blends, frozen battered and breaded items and specialty products.
• Gerber Products Company
PO Box 10010, Ft. Smith, AR 72917-0010
Phone: 479-782-8671 Fax: 479-784-5201
Website: www.gerber.com
Key Personnel
Operations Mgr: Patrick Murray
Supply Chain Mgr: Selvin Smith
Quality Assurance Mgr: Judson Rahn
Financial Mgr: Ken Kovitch
HR Mgr: Renee Bilyeu
Products or Services
Baby food, juices, and dry cereal.
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• Ball Corporation
6279 Tri-Ridge Blvd., Suite 210, Loveland, OH 45410
Phone: 513-576-4100 Fax: 513-576-4120
Website: www.ball.com
Key Personnel
Director of Sales, Central Region: Gary Woeste
Email: gwoeste@ball.com
Sales Representative: Jason Hayward
1200 South Crutcher Street
Springdale, AR 72764-6421
Phone: 479-751-4863 Fax: 479-872-4800
Email: jhayward@ball.com
Products or Services
Food cans/2-piece and 3-piece steel
• Bay Valley Foods
2848 North LeCompte Road, Springfield, MO 65803
Phone: 417-862-9411 Fax: 471-862-8615
Email: peggy_henry@bayvalleyfoods.com
Website: www.bayvalleyfoods.com
Key Personnel
General Mgr: Peggy Henry
Controller: Dan Winters
Products or Services
Producers of foodservice process and refrigerated pickles and relishes in pouches, 5-, 3.5- and 2-gallon pails, and 55-gallon drums. 12,000 acres of cucumbers are grown in central Missouri for Degraffenreid production.
• Bryant Preserving Company, Inc.
PO Box 367, 251 Hwy 71 N, Alma, AR 72921
Phone: 479-632-2401 Fax: 479-632-2505
Website: www.oldsouth.com
Key Personnel
President: Morgan Bryant
Production Mgr: Phillip Bryant
Sales Mgr: Lequetta Yates
Products or Services
Sweet pickled watermelon rind, Tomolivesâ brand pickled green tomatoes, pickled okra (hot and mild)
• Riceland Foods, Inc.
PO Box 927, Stuttgart, AR 72160
Phone: 870-673-5500 Fax: 870-673-5720
Email: dmccaskill@riceland.com
Website: www.riceland.com
Key Personnel
President & CEO: Danny Kennedy
Senior VP Int’l Rice & Partnership: Carl W. Brothers
Senior VP & Chief Financial Officer: Harry Loftis
Senior VP Domestic Food Sales: Jerry Delatte
VP-Research: Don McCaskill
VP Rice Milling & Engineering: Rick Rorex
VP Commodity Operations: Scott Gower
Products or Services
Milled, brown, and parboiled rice for retail, foodservice, industrial ingredients, and export; flavored rice; rice oil; rice flour; soy and other vegetable oils and shortenings for retail, foodservice, and industrial ingredient markets; fluid and de-oiled soy lecithin; animal feed ingredients from rice and soybeans.
• Tyson Foods, Inc.
PO Box 2020, Springdale, AR 72762-2020
Phone: 479-290-4000 Fax: 479-290-7973
Website: www.tyson.com
Key Personnel
Chairman: John Tyson
President & CEO: Dick Bond
Chief Administrative Officer & Int’l President: Greg Lee
Senior VP Science & Regulatory Affairs: Dr. Rick Roop
VP Food Safety & QA-Food Svc & Int’l: Scott Stilwell
VP Food Safety & QA-Retail Poultry & Fresh Meats:
Dr. Dean Danilson
Products or Services
Further-processed chicken, beef and pork, tortillas and specialty products.
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• ConAgra Foods, Inc.
1308 NE McClain Road, Bentonville, AR 72712
Phone: 479-464-3631 Fax: 402-917-9792
Email: cinda.stricklen@conagrafoods.com
Website: www.conagrafoods.com
Key Personnel
CEO: Gary Rodkin
Executive VP Research Quality and Innovation: Al Bolles
Gloval Chief Quality Officer: Joan Menke-Schaenzer
Quality Mgr: Cinda Stricklen
Products
Healthy Choice, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Hebrew National, Orville Redenbacher’s, PAM, Banquet, Act II, Alexia, Blue Bonnet, Crunch ‘n Munch, David’s Seeds, Fleischmann’s, Hunt’s, Kid Cuisine, Lightlife, Manwich, Marie Callender’s, Parkay, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Rosarita, Ro*Tel, Slim Jim, Snack Pack, Swiss Miss, Wesson, Andy Capp’s, Fiddle Faddle, Gilroy Foods and Flavors, Gulden’s, La Choy, Lamb Weston, Luck’s, Poppycock, Van Camp’s, Jiffy Pop, Wolf, Dennison’s, Patio, Ranch Style, Angela Mia, Award Cuisine, ConAgra Mills, Eagle Mills with Ultragrain, Fernando’s, Gebhardt, Gilroy Foods, Golden Cuisine, J. Hungerford Smith, J.M. Swank, The Max, Vogel Popcorn
• Dancing Bear Ingredients
510 South Cherokee Ave., Bartlesville, OK 74003
Phone: 918-336-0322 Fax: 918-336-0324
Email: dave@dancingbearingredients.com
Key Personnel
David W. Dreisker
Jon “Jed” Dreisker
Earnie McNickle
Kathy Alexander
Joan P. Dreisker
Products
Liquid and dry soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, yeast extracts and dough conditioners, oleoresins and essential oils, dehydrated vegetables, dried and processed beans and grains, pasta, natural and artificial colors, cocoa powders, powdered eggs, soy fiber, zein coatings and glazes, CMC, sun dried tomatoes, ground pepper and other spices. Specialists in air-dried champignon and portabella mushrooms.
• F&H Food Equipment Company
193 Fantinel Drive, Springdale, AR 72762
Phone: 479-751-3570 Fax: 479-751-2915
Website: www.fhfoodequipment.com
Key Personnel
Shawn Blakemore
Andy Jester
Shane McConnell
Michael Rushton
Stan Slater
Products or Services
F&H Food Equipment Co. is a specialized wholesale distributor whose core business is sanitary pumps, fittings, and processing equipment for the food processor.
• Hartung Brothers, Inc.
708 Heartland Trail, Suite 2000, Madison, WI 53717-2000
Phone: 608-829-6000 Fax: 608-829-6001
Website: www.hartungbrothers.com
Key Personnel
President: Dan Hartung
Head Fieldman: Gene Wilcenski
Products or Services
Raw product supplier for Mid-west and Southern processors. Green beans, sweet corn, green peas, beets, carrots, and cucumbers for pickling.
• H.C. Schmieding Produce Company, Inc.
2330 North Thompson Street, Springdale, AR 72765
Phone: 479-751-7295 Fax: 479-751-6831
Email: gary@schmieding.com
Key Personnel
Vice President: Gary Owens
Sales: Ed Cook
Transportation: Wayne High
Products or Services
Potatoes, carrots, cabbage, celery, onion beets.
• House of Webster, Inc.
Box 1988 1013 North 2nd Street, Rogers, AR 72756
Phone: 479-636-4640 Fax: 479-636-2974
Email: houseweb@ipa.net
Website: www.houseofwebster.com
Key Personnel
Exec. VP & COO: Craig Castrellon
Products or Services
Jellies, preserves, salsa, syrups, and barbecue sauces.
• Leon C. Osborn Company
PO Box 890014, Houston, TX 77289
Phone: 281-488-0755 Fax: 281-480-9739
Email: dave@leoncosborn.com
Website: www.leoncosborn.com
Key Personnel
President: David S. Osborn
Products or Services
Food processing machinery, packaging machinery.
• MS Delta Brokerage, LLP
PO Box 5002, Greenville, MS 38704
Phone: 662-332-6864 Fax: 662-332-8811
Key Personnel
Jim Dubberly, 662-332-6864
John Dubberly, 601-981-3893
Products or Services
Dehydrated vegetables, capsicums, natural spice and herb extracts, oleoresins, herbalox seasoning, vegetone colors, duralox seasonings, onion & garlic, seasoning blends.
• Razorback Farms, Inc.
PO Box 291, Springdale, AR 72765
Phone: 479-756-6141 Fax: 479-756-6824
Key Personnel
Chairman & CEO: Steve Brooks
President & COO: David Higgins
Executive Vice President: Marjorie Brooks
Senior Vice President: Jerry Marler
Vice President: Brian Higgins
Vice President: Jared Brooks
Products or Services
Supplier of raw produce and custom harvesting throughout the Mid-west, South, and East since 1966. Providing regular snap beans, European beans, wax beans, Italian beans, spinach and other cole crops; and sweet corn-on-the-cob, and cut kernels from mobile-processing method.
• Smurfit Stone Container Corporation
2021 South 5th Street, Rogers, AR 72756
Phone: 479-636-7000 Fax: 479-631-5858
Key Personnel
General Mgr: Dave Fritz
Email: dfritz@smurfit.com
Sales Mgr: Ron Farmer
Email: rfarmer@smurfit.com
Products or Services
Corrugated packaging and displays, computerized designing and compression analysis.
• Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
North 2792 Summerville Park Road, Lodi, WI 53555
Phone: 608-592-7802 Fax: 608-592-7798
Key Personnel
Director Processor Sales: Jeff Pomeroy
National Account Mgr: Jim Krier
North Central Processor Sales Rep: Dan Meyer
Products or Services
Seed supplier offering a broad range of processing vegetable varieties.
• SynergyTech
P.O. Box 2000, 550 Bain Street, Springdale, AR 72765
Phone: 479-872-8326 Fax: 479-750-2118
Email: cgunn@synergytech.org
Website: www.synergytech.org
Key Personnel
Director: Chris Gunn-Ewing
President: Craig Martin, Kawneer Company
Vice President: Vince Cucco, BenchMark Group
Treasurer: Ken Milbrodt, Tyson Foods
Secretary: Kathy Hood, Pinnacle Foods
Maintenance Training Coordinator: Pat Flenniken
Products or Services
SynergyTech is a not-for-profit training consortium of Northwest Arkansas businesses and industries, providing training solutions to increase maintenance-technical skill levels, enhance employee’s professional development and improve workforce productivity.
Member Companies: American Air Filter, Benchmark Group, Cargill Turkey, Central States Manufacturing, Cooper Power Systems, Danaher Tool Group, George’s, Glad Manufacturing, J.V. Manufacturing, Kawneer Company, Kennametal, Marshalltown Tools, McKee Foods, Packaging Specialties, Pinnacle Foods, Rockline Industries, Simmons Foods, Superior Industries International and Tyson Foods.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
• Advanced Environmental Recycling Technology
PO Box 1237, Springdale, AR 72764
Phone: 479-756-7400 Fax: 479-756-7410
Key Personnel
Doug Brooks
Al Drinkwater
Products or Services
Composite decking, door and window components.
• B.A.G. Corporation
11510 Data Drive, Dallas, TX 75218
Phone 214-340-7060, FAX 214-340-4598
Email: joe@bagcorp.com
Website: www.bagcorp.com
Key Personnel
Joe Richardson
Products or Services
B.A.G. Corporation knows that you face the ongoing urgency to find the means to eliminate contamination-prone wood and corrugated materials from your processing facility. We are pleased to offer a solution to these issues: the Combo-BAG container, a clean, easy and efficient bulk package designed for the handling, transport and storage of meat and food products.
• Bell Flavors & Fragrances
500 Academy Drive, Northbrook, IL 60062
Phone 847-226-3331, FAX 847-291-1217
Email: cek@bellff.com
Website: www.bellff.com
Key Personnel
Chip Ek
Products or Services
Flavors
• Brotherton Seed Company
PO Box 1136, Moses Lake, WA 98837
Phone 509-765-1816, FAX 509-765-1817
Email: jerome@brothertonseed.com
Website: www.brothertonseed.com
Key Personnel
President: Jerome Brotherton
Account Mgr: Eastern U.S./Canada: Donald C. Warnke
3122 Sundance Path, Stevensville, MI 49127-9378
Phone: 269-429-7895 Cellular: 269-369-4472
Email: don@brothertonseed.com
Products or Services
It is our goal to develop vegetable varieties with valuable characteristics and high nutritional value to consumers and to become an efficient and reliable partner to industrial food processors.
• Central Produce Sales, Inc.
PO Box 118, Dowagiac, MI 49047
Phone: 269-782-3588 Fax: 269-782-5120
Key Personnel
President: Vic Shank
Vice President: Billy E. Shank
Products or Services
Broker of raw products.
• Chestnut Labs
3233 East Chestnut Expressway, Springfield, MO 65802
Phone: 417-829-3724 Fax: 417-829-3787
Email: chestnutlabs@dfamilk.com
Website: www.chestnutlabs.com
Key Personnel
Director of Operations: Kristen Dixon
Products or Services
Laboratory services, training, in-house laboratory auditing, customer LIMS access to results.
• Crown Cork & Seal Company (USA), Inc.
U.S. Food Can Division
P.O. Box 974, Arden, NC 28704
Phone: 404-307-4130 Fax: 775-244-9661
Website: www.crowncork.com
Key Personnel
Director of Sales, East: William Keith
Email: bkeith@crowncork.com
Products or Services
A wide range of 3 pc and 2pc steel and 2pc aluminum. Easy opening can ends both steel and aluminum, for the food packaging and specialty industries.
• Delaval Cleaning Solutions
11100 North Congress Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64153
Phone: 816-891-1529 Fax: 816-891-1505 (Jennifer Marrow)
Email: Jennifer.marrow@delaval.com or eric.willson@delaval.com
Key Personnel
National Brand Mgr/Director Sales: Rick Kimbrell
District Sales Mgr: Eric Wilson (Phone: 254-722-8140)
Products or Services
Providing a full line of detergents and sanitizers to the food, dairy, and beverage industries with customized sanitation programs and service.
• D.E.P., Inc.
1818 South 1st Street, PO Box 2409, Rogers, AR 72756
Phone: 479-636-7999 Fax: 479-636-7690
Email: dep@cox-internet.com
Key Personnel
President: Jim Eason
Vice President: Brad Eason
Products or Services
Distributor of food ingredients.
• Dompe Warehouse Co./Ben Fish & Son
PO Box 417, Crows Landing, CA 95313
Phone: 209-837-4725 Fax: 209-837-4720
Key Personnel
President: Paul Dompe, paul@dompebeans.com
Sales Mgr: Dave Mendonca, dave@dompebeans.com
Products or Services
California dry edible beans and California lima bean seed.
• DSI Process Systems
4630 West Florissant Avenue, St Louis, MO 63115
Phone: 314-382-1525 Fax: 314-382-5234
E-Mail: dave@dsiprocess.com
Website: www.dsiprocess.com
Key Personnel
Account Mgr: Dave Keim
Products or Services
Engineer, design, install and provide process systems and equipment for food, beverage, dairy and pharmaceutical companies.
• FMC Corporation – Ag Products Group
19688 Moontown Road, Noblesville, IN 46060
Phone: 317-409-1990 Fax: 317-867-5998
Email: len_dobbins@fmc.com
Website: www.cropsolutions.fmc.com
Key Personnel
Commercial Business Specialist: Len Dobbins
Products or Services
Food processing pest management programs, grower education, and support.
• FMC FoodTech -- Food Processing Systems
2300 Industrial Avenue, Box A, Madera, CA 93637
Phone: 559-661-3200 Fax: 559-661-3222
Email: madera.fpsd@fmcti.com
Website: www.fmcfoodtech.com
Key Personnel
Area Sales Mgr: David Wildes
Products or Services
FMC FoodTech sets the standard for in-container and in-flow shelf-stable processed food products. Our equipment includes fillers, closers and sterilization systems, from automated batch retorts to continuous rotary cooker/coolers and hydrostatic sterilizers. Our FranRica aseptic processing equipment and LOG-TECÒ thermal process controls lead the industry. FMC FoodTech’s service programs provide efficient installation and start-up, preventive maintenance inspections, on-site machinery maintenance and training.
• Forbo Adhesives LLC / Swift Products
PO Box 180669, Fort Smith, AR 72918-0669
Phone: 479-646-4320 Fax: 479-646-0804
Email: tillie.loudermilk@forbo.com
Website: www.forbo.com
Key Personnel
Senior Accounts Mgr: Tillie Loudermilk
Voice Mail: 800-213-4805 x8475
Products or Services
Industrial adhesives.
• Griffith Laboratories
531 Rockhill Drive, San Antonio, TX 78209
Phone: 210-832-8793 Fax: 210-826-2560
Email: mmaroney@griffithlaboratories.com
Website: www.griffithlaboratories.com
Key Personnel
Account Director: Matt Maroney
Products or Services
“The Food Architects,” custom seasoning blends, marinades, glazes, sauces, gravies, and coating systems.
• Heartland Supply Company, Inc.
PO Box 250, Fayetteville, AR 72702
Phone: 479-444-0970 Fax: 479-521-5022
Website: www.heartlandsupply.com
Key Personnel
President: Tom Suchecki
VP Administration: Patty Pummill
Sales: Frances Carr
Products or Services
Food processing additives: phosphates, preservatives, milk proteins, flavor enhancers, acidulants, starches, dextrins, oils, gums, sugars, and sweeteners, baking powders, other specialty chemicals and additives.
• The Hughes Company, Inc.
1200 West James Street, Columbus, WI 53925
Phone: 866-535-9309, 920-623-2000 Fax: 920-623-4098
Email: hughes@hughescompany.biz
Website: www.hughescompany.biz
Key Personnel
President: Todd A. Belz
VP Manufacturing: Bill C. Wandersee
Sales Mgr: Denny Flynn
Products or Services
Vegetable and fruit processing equipment; complete lines of seed and sweet corn and green bean equipment; continuous blanchers/cookers; rotary coolers; can and glass jar filler with brining system; vibrating and belt conveyors; vegetable washers; dewatering equipment; pasta and rice cooking/cooling equipment, air separators, food plant layout and consulting services.
• Illes Seasonings & Flavors
PO Box 115007, Carrollton, TX 75011-5007
Phone: 214-689-1300 Fax: 214-637-3115
Key Personnel
President/CEO: Rick Illes
Research & Development Director: John C. Dale
Sales Rep: David Tierney, 19369 Blue Springs Rd., Fayetteville, AR 72701, Phone: 479-444-9042
Products or Services
Manufacturer of seasonings and flavors for the food processing industry. Specializing in seasoning and flavors for bakery, meat, dairy and processed food products.
• Industrial Pipe and Supply Company, Inc
PO Box 481, Cabot, AR 72023
Phone: 501-843-6573, FAX: 501-843-2521
Email: blm281@aol.com
Website: www.industrialpipe.com
Key Personnel
President: Bob Morris
Regional Sales Mgr: Britt Morris, 2594 South 4th Street,
Van Buren, AR 72954, Phone: 800-495-9100
Branch Mgr: Pam Dean
Van Buren, AR 72954, Phone: 800-495-9100
Products or Services
Industrial Pipe & Supply is a major distributor of piping and pumping equipment used in the food process industry. With two stocking locations in Arkansas and sales offices in both Tennessee and Texas. IPSCO can respond quickly with quality products to meet your plant requirements. IPSCO is a MASTER Distributor for Alfa Laval /Tri Clover products in Arkansas and surrounding territory. Check our website for other manufacturers that make quality products for your use.
• Innova Flavors
2021 Swift Drive, Oak Brook, IL 60523
Phone: 630-928-4850 Fax: 630-928-4820
Website: www.innovaflavors.com
Key Personnel
Business Unit Director: Michael Scanlan
Phone: 931-380-8884
Email: mscanlan@innovaflavors.com
VP R & D: Dafne Diez De Medina, Ph.D.
Phone: 630-928-4850
Email: ddiezdemedina@innovaflavors.com
Applications Scientist: Cindy Clery
Phone: 630-928-4851
Email: cclery@innovaflavors.com
Products or Services
Meat and Savory Flavors and Flavor Systems for marinades, sauces, soups, dips, spreads, glazes, coating systems, etc. Full line of HVP’s. Complete R & D for customized flavors and applications.
• International Dehydrated Foods, Inc.
PO Box 10347, Springfield, MO 65808
Phone: 800-641-6509, 417-881-7820
Email: customerservice@idf.com
Website: www.idf.com
Key Personnel
President: Kurt Hellweg
Vice President/Controller: Paul Fry
Vice President Sales & Marketing: Bob Hoopingarner
Customer Service Director: Ann Hollis
Products or Services
Full line of spray-dried meat and poultry powders, frozen, shelf-stable and spray-dried chicken and turkey broths, shelf-stable liquid chicken fat. Various blends of the above listed items.
• Intralox, Inc.
201 Laitram Lane, Harahan, LA 70123
Phone: 800-388-2358 Fax 504-734-0063
Website: www.intralox.com
Key Personnel
District Mgr: Walt Kelly
Exhibit Coordinator: Charlene LeJeune
Customer Service: Claudia Terrell
Products or Services
Manufacture modular plastic conveyor belts &
accessories.
• Jones-Neitzel Company
12850 Spurling Drive #114, Dallas, TX 75230
Phone: 214-526-2876 Fax: 214-522-0091
Email: jneitzel@jonesneitzel.com
Key Personnel
Partner: Jim Neitzel
Partner: Brad McCauley
Products or Services
Full service food broker.
• Kerry Flavors and Fragrances
100 East Grand Avenue, Beloit, WI 53511
Phone: 608-363-1200 Fax: 608-363-1670
Website: www.kerryingredients.com
Key Personnel
Division President: Jeff Kirn
Research & Development Dir: Andy Oxley
Regional Sales: Mark Lawson
Regional Sales: Dick Stentz
Technical Service Rep: Tom Hunter
Trade Show Mgr: Bob Milam
Products or Services
A world-leading supplier of batter and breader systems to poultry, seafood and appetizer processors. Products include breaders (cracker meal, ABC, JBC inclusion breaders, gourmet breaders), batters, FlavorCore™ co-extrusion, and cold form extrusion technologies.
• Key Technology, Inc.
PO Box 29037, San Antonio TX 78229
Phone: 509-521-9836 Fax: 210-698-6927
Email: bfreeman@key.net
Website: www.key.net
Key Personnel
Area Sales Mgr: Bob Freeman
Products or Services
Automated inspection and defect removal, quality monitoring systems, material handling equipment featuring Iso-Flo vibratory conveyors, vegetable processing systems including blanchers, pumping systems, dewatering shakers, size graders, air cleaners and vegetable mixing systems.
• Magnuson Corporation & CCM Industries
#1 Magnuson Avenue, PO Box 590, Pueblo, CO 81002-0590
Phone: 719-948-9500 Fax: 719-948-9540
Email: sales@magnusoncorp.com
Key Personnel
VP & General Mgr: Craig Furlo
Email: craigf@magnusoncorp.com
Sales Mgr: Ron Anderson
Email: rona@magnusoncorp.com
Products or Services
Shufflo Feeders and Trough Belts, peelers-abrasive and brush (various sizes), automatic corn cutting machine, Femia green bean and pea equipment. FAM size reduction equipment – 1,2,3 dimensional cutters.
• Mol Industries
2532 Waldorf Court, NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49544
Phone: 616-453-2484 Fax: 616-453-5160
Email: thermodrive@molindustries.com
Website: www.thermodrive.com
Key Personnel
President: Edward T. Mol
Vice President Sales: Jim Honeycutt
Market Development Mgr: Barry Whitman
Products or Services
Develops and manufactures process conveyor belting for the food industry, providing solutions to difficult application demands. Our latest innovation is the ThermoDrive: Sprocket Driven Hygienic Belting.
• Monterey Mushrooms, Inc.
#2 Hazel, PO Box 250, Bonne Terre, MO 63628
Phone: 573-358-4500 Fax: 573-358-2209
Email: kandres@montmush.com
Website: www.montmush.com/process
Key Personnel
Plant Mgr: Carl Bennett
QA/Techical Service Mgr: Kevin Andres
Operations Mgr: Greg Newbrand
Products or Services
Canned sliced mushrooms and mushroom specialties.
• Nationwide Agribusiness
1100 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA 50391-3000
Phone: 800-228-6700 Fax: 515-508-3154
Website: www.nationwideagribusiness.com
Key Personnel
Sales Key Contact: Jim Wilkins
Products or Services
The country’s leading insurer specializing in commercial agribusiness insurance and loss control.
• New Way Packaging Machinery, Inc.
210 Blettner Avenue, Hanover PA 17331
Phone: 717-637-2133 Fax: 717-637-2966 or 877-LABELER
Email: biged48@yahoo.com or Linda@labeler.com
Website: www.labeler.com
Key Personnel
Ed Abendschein
Products or Services
Manufacturer of roll-through lablers.
• Oxbo International
100 Bean Street, Clear Lake, WI 54005
Phone: 715-263-2112, 800-628-6196 Fax: 715-263-3324
Email: tcain@oxbocorp.com
Website: www.oxbocorp.com
Key Personnel
Vice President Sales: Andy Talbott
Southern Sales: Tylor Cain
Vegetable Product Mgr: Brian Maul
Service & Parts Mgr: J.R. Wilkerson
Products or Services
Manufacture self-propelled harvesting equipment for sweet corn, seed corn, green beans, peas, butter beans, spinach/greens. Citrus for juice, blueberry, raspberry. Vineyard equipment and grape harvesters.
• Pak-Tec, Inc
5148 Elmore, Suite #1, Memphis, TN 38053
Phone: 901-840-4414 Fax: 901-840-4415
Email: mzwolle@pak-tec.com
Website: www.pak-tec.com
Key Personnel
President: Rob Manchester
Sales Engineer: Mark Zwolle
Products or Services
Ink Jet and Laser Date Codes and Barcodes, Label Printers and Applicators, Adhesive and Adhesive Application equipment.
• Pel-Freez Arkansas LLC
219 North Arkansas Street, Rogers, AR 72756
Phone: 479-636-4361 Fax: 479-621-5176
Email: rstowe@pelfreez.com
Website: www.pel-freez.com
Key Personnel
President: David W. Dubbell
VP, COO: Regina Stowe
Products or Services
Meat Processor
• Pepper Source, LTD
5800 Alma Highway, Van Buren, AR 72956
Phone: 479-474-5178 Fax: 479-474-4729
Key Personnel
VP Operations: Paul Liggio
VP Research & Development: Jennifer Maruri
VP Purchasing: Steve Campbell
Purchasing Assistant: Cindy Neihouse
Director of Sales: Mark Watson
Products or Services
Custom development and manufacturing of sauces, marinades, and glazes. Packaging methods available include bulk, portion control pouches and bottles.
• The Pictsweet Company
10 Pictsweet Drive, Bells, TN 38006
Phone: 800-562-2512 Fax: 888-471-9227
Email: seubanks@pictsweet.com
Key Personnel
Plant Mgr: Jody Emerson
Agriculture Mgr: Stanley Eubanks
Raw Products Mgr: Chris Ebelhar
Products or Services
Frozen Vegetables.
• Post Familie Vineyards & Winery
1700 St. Mary’s Mountain Road, Altus, AR 72821
Phone: 479-468-2741 Fax: 479-468-2740
Email: info@postfamilie.com
Website: www.postfamilie.com
Key Personnel/Family Members
President: Mathew J. Post
Inventory & Bottling: Paul Post
Vineyards: Thomas Post
Nursery Mgr.: Suzanne Post
Winemaker: Andrew Post
Assistant Winemaker: Matthew Post, Jr.
Systems: Dr. John T. Post
Retail: Tina Post McAlister
Sales: Joseph Post
Products or Services
Wines, sparkling wines, non alcoholic juices, jellies and vinegar. Bulk juice and wine processing. Custom processing or packaging including private labeling. Tours 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Call for special arrangements (800 ARJUICE). Hours: Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6:00 pm and Sunday 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
• Pure Line Seeds, Inc.
PO Box 8866, Moscow, ID 83843-1366
Phone: 208-882-4422 Fax: 208-882-4326
Email: pure@moscow.com
Website: www.purelineseed.com
Key Personnel
President: William (Bill) Pfeil
VP Operations: Gary Veitenheimer
VP Research: Richard Lowe
VP of Administration: Connie Ricketts
Products or Services
Pea, snap bean and sweet corn seed for the processing industry and fresh market industry.
• Ross Industries, Inc.
5321 Midland Road, Midland, VA 22728
Phone 540-439-3271 Fax 540-439-2740
Email: dbrown@rossindinc.com
Website: www.rossindinc.com
Key Personnel
President: Phil Tribel
VP/General Mgr-Processing Division: Sal Sparacino
Regional Sales Mgr: Dick Brown
Products or Services
Tenderizers, impingement freezers, uniform press, and slicers.
• Seminis Vegetable Seeds
7202 Portage Road, DeForest, WI 53532-2339
Phone: 608-846-7889 Fax: 608-846-7892
Key Personnel
Seminis Processor Division Mgr: Jim Thomasson
Email: james.thomasson@seminis.com
Technical Sales Mgr: Paul Skalitzky
W8964 Town Hall Road, Waterloo, WI 53594
Phone: 920-478-4914
Email: paul.skalitzky@seminis.com
Technical Sales Mgr: Rich Maloney
PO Box 700, Canandaigua NY 14424-0700
Phone: 585-394-2882
Email: rich.maloney@seminis.com
Technology Development Rep: Mark Myers
7202 Portage Rd, DeForest, WI 53532
Phone: 608-842-1429 FAX: 608-846-7892
Email: mark.gerard.myers@seminis.com
Products or Services
All types of vegetable seeds for processing industry.
• Texamerican Food Marketing
4220 Proton Road, Suite 108, Dallas, TX 75244
Phone 214-505-0411 FAX 972-702-0156
Email: elizabeth@texamerican.com
Website: www.texamerican.com
Key Personnel
President: Bob Sandifer
Vice President: Barbara Bragg
VP Sales and Marketing: Elizabeth Mauney
VP R&D and Technical Services: Jim Ransom
Products or Services
We are a custom blending company. We make custom breading systems, batters, marinades, coating systems, spice blends, dry sauce blends, and dry gravy mixes
• 3M Microbiology
787 Steele Road, Springdale, AR 72762-6239
Cell Phone: 479-599-9038
VXM: 800-480-2227 Fax: 651-732-8266
Email: lynnerousseau@mmm.com
Website: www.3M.com/microbiology
Corporate Offices
3M Center, Building 275-5W-5, St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
800-228-3957
Key Personnel
Senior Account Representative: Lynne Rousseau
Phone: 800-480-2227
Inside Sales: Marlys Moen
Phone: 800-437-6265, option 3
Customer Service/Order Entry: Mary Thompson
Phone: 800-328-1671
Technical Services: Phone: 800-328-6553
Products or Services
3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates are the industry standard in food testing because they increase efficiency and provide reliable results, consistent technician-to-technician, shift-to-shift and plant-to-plant. New: 3M Petrifilm Environmental Listeria (EL) Plate, sample-ready culture medium containing selective agents and a chromogenic indicator for colony detection. Petrifilm EL Plates detect the following Listeria species: monocytogenes, innocua, grayi/murrayi and welshimeri, but does not differentiate these organisms from one another.
Additional sample-ready 3M Petrifilm plates are available for most microbial testing needs: Aerobic, E. Coli, Coliform, Yeast and Mold, Staph aureus and Enterobacteriaceae Count Plates.
3M Microbiology offers additional items to support the QA laboratory: Quick Swab is a ready-to-use environmental swab, Homogenizer Bags filtered 400 mL size and Buffered Peptone Water Diluent. Also available are 3M Electronic Pipettors with programmable dilution capabilities and Pipettor tips in 1-mL and 5-mL volumes.
New: 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader offers consistent, automated reading and recording of results of 3M Petrifilm Plates (AC, CC and EC/CC) in 4 seconds. Windows-based CD-Rom software and hardware provided allows for easy installation and instructions for using the system. Some system requirements (not included) are necessary.
• Triangle Package Machinery Company
6655 West Diversey Avenue, Chicago, Il 60707
Phone: 800-621-4170 Fax: 773-889-4221
Email: info@trianglepackage.com
Website: www.trianglepackage.com
Key Personnel
Southwestern Sales Manager: John McCall
Southeastern Sales Manager: Joe O’Halloran
Products or Services
Manufacturer of vertical form fill seal bag machines, computer weighers and bag-in-box systems.
• Tri-Temp Distribution, LLC
3203 Industrial Park Road, Van Buren, AR 72956
Phone: 479-471-5115 Fax: 479-471-1711
Email: tritemp@tritemp.com
Key Personnel
Vice President & General Mgr: Sue Salyars
Products or Services
UDSA establishment, frozen & dry public warehouse, customized special services, import-export-enclosed rail.
• Unilever Bestfoods
8201 Frazier Pike, Little Rock, AR 72206
Phone: 501-490-1441 Fax: 501-490-3321
Website: www.unilever.com
Key Personnel
SHEQ Mgr: Tawana Walker Ogeto
Operations Mgr: Tracy Feldman
Plant Engineer: Mike Kortan
Plant Controller: Matthew Zullo
Products or Services
Manufacturer of peanut butter.
• Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
2503 Calumet Avenue, Valparaiso, IN 46383
Phone: 219-464-4811 Fax: 219-462-3879
Email: info@urschel.com
Website: www.urschel.com
Key Personnel
Vice President Sales: Tim O’Brien
Regional Sales Mgr: Lance Licht
2985 Dallas Loop, Conway, AR 727032
Phone: 501-327-9395 Fax: 501-327-7082
Email: llicht@urschel.com
Products or Services
Designers and manufacturers of precision size-reduction equipment (Dicers, slicers, and other size-reduction equipment).
• The Wax Company, Inc.
PO Box 60, Amory, MS 38821
Phone: 601-256-3511 Fax: 601-256-9720
Key Personnel
Sales Mgr: Barry Wax
Director of Sales & Marketing: Raymond Taylor
Products or Services
Improved southern cowpeas- varieties: Miss. pinkeye, Miss. cream, Miss. Purple, magnolia blackeye, Miss. Shipper. Avbe blackeye, Genegreen blackeye.
• Whallon Machinery, Inc.
205 North Chicago Street, Royal Center, IN 46978
Phone: 574-643-9561 Fax: 574-643-9218
Email: info@whallon.com
Website: www.whallon.com
Key Personnel
President: Leslie Smith
Sales: Bruce Ide
Engineering Mgr: Jeff Tevis
Products or Services
Palletizing and depalletizing equipment for cans, glass, cases and pails. Pallet stacking, dispensing, and conveying.
• Whitewater Technologies, LLC
5627 North farm Road 171, Springfield, MO 65803
Phone: 417-343-9073
Email: rick.todd@wwtechllc.com
Key Personnel
Rick Todd
Products or Services
Manufacturer’s representative providing industrial wastewater treatment equipment and systems, stainless steel tanks, pressure vessels and custom-fabricated process equipment.
• Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc.
3324 Swiss Family Drive, Wiederkehr Villarge, AR 72821
Phone: 479-468-2611, 800-622-9463 Fax: 479-468-4791
Email: wiederkehr@centurytel.net
Website: www.wiederkehrwines.com
Swiss Family Bistro (Exit 41)
109 Rue de Cabernet, Wiederkehr Village, AR 72821
Phone: 479-468-0149
Key Personnel
Chairman of the Board: Al Wiederkehr
CFO: Beverly Morrow
Operations Officer: Dennis Wiederkehr
President/Winemaker: Gary Wiederkehr
Products or Services
Gourmet meats and cheeses, Gift Shoppe, Deli Sandwiches, wine tasting and sales.
• Wire Belt Company of America
154 Harvey Road, Londonderry, NH 03053
Phone 603-644-2500 Fax 603-644-3600
Email: sales@wirebelt.com
Website: www.wirebelt.com
Key Personnel
CEO: David Greer
Vice President Sales and Marketing: Richard Spiak
Customer Relations and Pricing Mgr: Nancy Maguire
Products or Services
Since 1947, Wire Belt Company of America has proudly maintained a reputation for developing advanced conveyor and belting solutions to meet the automated processing needs of the food industry. Our products are extensively used for breading, battering, frying, blanching, cooking, coating, dusting, and cooling. The entire Flat-Flex® line of products is accepted by NSF/ANSI/3-A hygiene standards. This means: Wire Belt products are easy to clean, hygienic and long lasting. This is the only acceptance that can assure you that you have cleanest, safest, conveyor belt available in this business segment.
• Zero Mountain, Inc.
8425 Highway 45 South, Fort Smith, AR 72916
Phone: 479-646-7757 Fax: 479-646-0850
Email: markrumsey@zeromtn.com
Website: www.zeromtn.com
Key Personnel
CEO: Mark Rumsey
CFO: Toni J. Bell
CMO: David Blackard
CIO: Andy Sudigala
Products or Services
Public cold storage warehouse.
Plant Locations
Johnson, Lowell, Russellville, and Fort Smith, AR