2023 Sponsor Profiles
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Gold Sponsors
Niagara Bottling
Niagara Bottling is one of the largest beverage manufacturers in the North America. Through vertical integration, Niagara manufactures bottled water, tea, juices, sports drinks and sparkling beverages. With over 50 years of experience in advanced bottling technology, Niagara has engineered some of the lightest and strongest bottles in the industry.
Tate & Lyle
Supported by our 160-year history of ingredient innovation, we partner with customers to provide consumers with healthier and tastier choices when they eat and drink. We are proud that millions of people around the world consume products containing our ingredients every day. Through our expertise in sweetening, fortification, and texture, we develop ingredient solutions which reduce sugar, calories, and fat, add fiber and protein, and provide texture and stability in categories including beverages, dairy, bakery, snacks, soups, sauces, and dressings. Science, Solutions, Society is our brand promise and how we will achieve our purpose of Transforming Lives Through the Science of Food.
Silver Sponsors
Cargill
In today’s complex and competitive beverage industry, growth comes through innovation. Our technical expertise and broad ingredient portfolio can help you capitalize on key consumer trends such as plant-based, clean label and sugar reduction, while maintaining great taste and texture in your beverage products. If you are looking for a partner to enhance your existing product lineup or drive sales with new products, turn to Cargill. For more information, visit www.cargill.com/food-beverage/na/sugar-reduction-solutions
McCormick and Company
Experience a differentiated approach to flavor creation. McCormick Flavor Solutions uses its culinary-inspired heritage to help you create consumer-preferred drink experiences. Our broad array of flavor solutions includes: flavor layering, berry & fruit flavors, herb & spice, sweet brown, vanilla and flavor modulation.
Sweegen
The future is about elevating wellness for everyone. As zero-calorie sweetness and taste modulation experts, Sweegen Taste Blazers are reimagining the world of wellness by helping brands create better-for-you beverages that taste delicious. From flavored waters to fruit juices, teas, coffees, low-cal craft cocktails, mocktails and alcoholic spirits, discover cleaner, healthier, reduced or zero sugar, innovate better-for-you beverages with satisfying sweetness and a full taste experience. Tackle product development challenges with Sweegen’s food and beverage technologies to deliver wellness to the world. You have a Choice. Choose Well.
Bronze Sponsors
BevSource
BevSource helps forward-thinking beverage companies develop and deliver innovative products built to scale successfully. For more than 20 years, our team of passionate beverage experts has propelled the most exciting beverage ideas forward faster with timely technical expertise paired with an unmatched network of vetted resources and partners. BevSource’s comprehensive approach enhances your business, from product development and procurement to production management, compliance, quality control - and everything in between. We partner with you to make the best use of your resources while adding our expertise, proven processes, and custom tools that will take your beverage idea to the next level. Let’s work together to give your next idea the boost it needs to break through in today’s competitive beverage market.
Chinova Bioworks
Chinova Bioworks is a Canadian company that addresses the growing consumer demand for healthy, natural, clean-label ingredients. Chinova has developed a natural preservative extracted from the stems of white button mushrooms for various food and beverage products. Chinova’s natural, clean-label technology reduces the reliance on artificial ingredients & improves quality, freshness, and shelf-life encouraging healthier long-lasting products, increased customer satisfaction, and reduced food waste.
Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI)
Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI) is a global innovation partner that creates value for brands through dynamic printable sensor technologies that alert, protect, and surprise consumers. CTI offers thermo-, photochromic, glow-in-the-dark- and other ink & design technologies in multiple formats, colors, and temperature ranges. Therefore, these printable chromatic technologies are customizable to brands’ specific applications & design needs. As a result, CTI’s technologies increase consumer engagement, trigger purchase intent, promote post-consumption recycling behavior, and create brand lift.
Donaldson
As a global leader in technology-led filtration products and solutions, Donaldson serves a broad range of industries and advanced markets. Our market-specific specialists at over 140 locations on six continents partner with customers - from small business owners to the world’s biggest OEM brands - to solve complex filtration challenges.
Donaldson has been providing food and beverage industries around the world with high quality filtration products since many years, enhancing our offering with an ever-broadening product portfolio of sterile air, liquid, and steam filtration solutions. From pre-purification to sterile grade filtration, Donaldson has the right product to meet your specific needs and to support your process and product integrity.
K.G. International
For over 40 years, K.G. International (KGI) has been a leading supplier of packaging materials and ingredients for the food and beverage industry. We are headquartered in Miami, Florida and focus on both rigid and flexible packaging, particularly tamper-evident beverage closures and PET preforms for a wide range of neck finishes and formats. We specialize in assisting bottlers lightweight their packaging to save money and reduce plastic waste. Our beverage customers range from large multinationals to smaller, local and regional bottlers. We pride ourselves on simplifying your supply chain while providing friendly and reliable customer service, and technical support.
Exhibitors
AIDP, Inc.
AIDP, Inc. is an industry leader in developing and sourcing innovative ingredients for the health, functional food, snacks and beverage industries. We specialize in clinically researched products providing benefits for immune health, cognitive wellness, digestive health, and more. We supply vegan, plant-based ingredients, products solving formulation challenges, sweetener systems and provide a wide variety of plant proteins and botanicals.
At AIDP, we work with market leading brands as well as emerging companies. We provide formulation and technical assistance to help you at every step and meet every challenge to grow your business. Our global footprint and distinguished suppliers enable us to react fast and be responsive to your specialty and commodity ingredient needs. We supply over 300 ingredients. Time and again, we help our customers become market leaders.
HTBA (HealthTech BioActives)
HTBA (HealthTech BioActives) is a global company based in Spain specializing in Flavonoids and Vitamin B12 derivatives. Leveraging over 40 years of experience in producing solutions for Pharmaceutical APIs,Taste Modulation, Functional Health and Animal Nutrition, from naturally sourced materials. We are determined to support our customers with rigorous quality and sustainability standards through the entire value chain, from raw materials to commercialization. At HTBA we strive to continuously formulate high standards and solutions – from our Global HQ in Barcelona, Spain and US subsidiary in Cincinnati, OH to our manufacturing facilities in Southern Spain.
Conference Sponsors
