At White Toque, our mission is simple: to bring you exceptional frozen specialties from around the world. Since 1992, we have connected chefs and food service operators with top-quality products from trusted partners in Europe and Latin America. With over 300 distribution partners and eight hubs across North America, we help you deliver consistency, creativity and quality, plate after plate. No matter if you’re a fine dining restaurant, a hotel kitchen, or a cruise line galley, we have the ingredients to make your menu stand out. | White Toque, Inc. is a leading importer of European specialty products to the food service trade in the United States. White Toque offers a wide selection of frozen and dry goods products and currently sells to 250 distributors and wholesalers nationwide.
Vancouver Freeze Dry
Vancouver Freeze Dry is a leading freeze-dried food manufacturer headquartered in North America, dedicated to supplying premium ingredients to food businesses. Using specialized technology, we freeze-dry fresh fruits, vegetables, yogurt, and more—delivering exceptional quality at affordable prices. With a reliable supply chain and large-scale production capacity, we are the trusted partner you can count on.
Van Drunen Farms
At Van Drunen Farms, we offer customizable, plant-based ingredient solutions from fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains, designed to enhance a variety of food and beverage products, and functional health and wellbeing products. We improve people’s lives by making healthy eating easier and enjoyable. Our dried and frozen ingredient solutions are ideal for a wide variety of baking applications, offering both flavor and functionality. Whether it is adding fiber, texture, flavor, or nutrition, we can partner with you to enhance your bakery product innovations. Our freeze-dried and drum-dried fruit and vegetable powders, including classic flavors like apple, pumpkin, and sweet potato, are ideal for dry baking mixes such as those for quick breads, muffins or cakes. They can also add rich, deep caramelized flavor to baked items such as cookies, muffins, crackers, and more. And when piece identity is important, dried fruit and vegetable pieces offer a natural appeal with bursts of flavor and texture to baked favorites. While savory applications like artisan breads and pizzas are taken to new levels by the freshness of culinary herbs, grown in the rich soil of our Illinois farms. Van Drunen Farms is a leading supplier and manufacturer that serves customers worldwide, and is part of the Van Drunen Family of Companies, a trusted, global network that makes a difference in the lives of major brands every day by delivering innovative fruit, vegetable, herb, and grain-based ingredient solutions.
Tree Top, Inc.
Tree Top Ingredients is a farmer grown, farmer owned source for a full range of fruit ingredient solutions. Offering dried fruits, purees, juice concentrates, formulated fruit preps & fruit feeders, and custom blends, Tree Top Ingredients are trusted by leading food brands and found in products on shelves nationwide. | Tree Top is a farmer-owned cooperative owned by apple and pear growers. The Co-op was founded in 1960 in the heart of Washington’s apple country. Tree Top has led the way in premium fruit solutions. With their fruit expertise and trusted source of fruit, they produce the widest array of fruit-based products and solutions for consumers and for most of the world’s leading food and beverage manufacturers. | Tree Top is proud to be a farmer-grown, farmer-owned cooperative. Founded in 1960 in the heart of Washington’s apple country, we bring generations of care and dedication to every harvest. We produce wholesome, great-tasting fruit juice, applesauce, and dried apple snacks that operators trust and consumers love. Made with simple, high-quality ingredients, our apples are naturally sweet and never contain high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, or artificial flavors. Our products are Buy American Certified and Smart Snack Compliant—delivering better-for-you options that consumers can feel good about choosing. Discover the Tree Top difference.
Traina Foods
Processing dried fruits since 1926 and now the 4th generation of Trainas Located on the family ranch in California’s San Joaquin Valley in Patterson, CA 40 acres of drying yard for year-round production 70,000 sqft. of packaging and 50,000 sqft. of manufacturing 8 packaging lines for running multiple fruits simultaneously BRC A+ Rating In House Lab testing Globally sourced fruits to offer a wide breadth of products Focus on sustainability Process over 50 million pounds of fruit each year by harnessing the power of the sun Nearly100% solar power in our packaging and manufacturing facility Regenerative agricultural practices & zero food waste | Traina Foods – Global Pet Expo Company Description For more than a century, Traina Foods has been a trusted leader in premium, California‑grown dried fruits and ingredient solutions. At Global Pet Expo, we are proud to showcase our expanding line of high‑quality pet nutrition ingredients, crafted with the same care, consistency, and farm‑to‑family standards that define our food products. Our pet‑focused portfolio includes specialty fruit blends developed specifically for birds, designed to deliver optimal nutrition, natural energy, and irresistible flavor. These blends are crafted with clean, wholesome ingredients—never fillers—providing a nutrient‑dense foundation for companion and aviary species alike. Beyond blends, Traina Foods offers a wide range of natural fruit treats ideal for manufacturers seeking premium inclusions. Our treats are made from sun‑dried, minimally processed fruits to preserve natural color, flavor, and antioxidants. They can be used in treats, mixes, toppers, and enrichment formats across multiple pet categories. Backed by decades of agricultural expertise, rigorous quality standards, and flexible production capabilities, Traina Foods is committed to supporting brands that want to elevate nutrition with authentic, traceable, California‑sourced ingredients. Whether you’re developing a new bird blend, enhancing a treat line, or seeking clean‑label fruit solutions, our team is here to help you create products pets love—and pet parents trust. | Traina Foods produces the world’s finest sun dried fruit, serving manufacturers, ingredient companies,distributors, foodservice and brokers. Because we manage production from the orchards to the end product, we ensure the highest standard of quality of our California Sun Dried fruit, while offering a one stop shop for all your dried fruit needs. We have a wide scope of capabilities that can be customized for your application. | From its family ranch in California, Traina® Foods grows, sun dries and produces premium sun dried fruit for Industrial Ingredient and Foodservice customers around the world. Traina® Foods was founded on traditions our family brought from the old world, including time-honored methods of sun drying tomatoes and a belief in the slower-is-better lifestyle. We grew with California, enlisting its spirit of technological innovation, including sustainable and organic farming, zero food waste and solar energy. | From its family ranch in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Traina® Foods grows, sun-dries, and produces premium sun-dried fruit for industrial ingredient and foodservice customers around the world. As a trusted dried fruit supplier and dried fruit manufacturer, we also offer a full line of bulk dried fruit under our Traina Home Grown brand—including our award-winning California Sun-Dried Cherries and condiments. That’s what we do. Why we do it is another story. Traina® is founded on traditions our family brought from the old world, including the time-honored methods of sun-drying tomatoes and a food-lover’s belief in the slower-is-better lifestyle. Then we grew with California, harnessing the vast energy of its sun, enlisting its spirit of technological innovation, including sustainable and organic farming, and water and waste management.
The Austin Company
The Austin Company is a design-build firm providing site selection, design, engineering, construction, and facility maintenance services. From its founding in 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Samuel Austin, Austin continues to add value to its client’s facility needs. Austin services eight major industrial market segments, including Aerospace and Defense, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Process Industries, Utility Plant Support, and Commercial. | The Austin Company is a design-build firm providing site selection, design, engineering, construction, and facility maintenance services. From its founding in 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio, Austin continues to add value to its client’s facility needs. Austin would go from supporting the burgeoning aviation industry in the 1920s to manufacturing plants for the space age and from some of the first automotive manufacturing facilities to computer automated plants. Austin provides design-build services to eight major industrial market segments, including Aerospace and Defense, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Process Industries, Utility Plant Support, and Commercial. In 2005, The Austin Company became part of the Kajima USA group of companies. Kajima USA is a subsidiary of Kajima Corporation of Japan. In 2021 Austin acquired The Austin Company of the UK, Limited. Austin strategically expanded its capabilities by reacquiring Austin UK and acquiring Gala & Associates, a firm specializing in architectural engineering and project management for automotive and industrial facilities, along with TACK Builders Inc., enhancing its design-build expertise. | The Austin Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, including planning, design, engineering, design-build, construction management and construction, as well as site location and operations improvement consulting for industrial companies throughout North America. Our team has broad experience serving the Meat and Poultry industries, with specialties in operational management and design, implementation and startup of new facilities, and USDA, FSMA, Food Safety and GMP requirements. | The Austin Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of in-house services, including site selection, planning, architectural design, engineering, and construction for commercial and industrial companies throughout North America and Europe. Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1878, Austin continues to uphold our founder’s dedication to “Honest work, well done.” Our goal is to help you make smart decisions to improve your facility’s efficiency and profitability. Whether you are looking to expand an existing plant or build on a green site, we have the answers to your most significant design-build challenges. Austin serves clients in aerospace and defense; food and beverage; pharmaceutical and biotech; automotive manufacturing; industrial manufacturing; and process industries.In 2005, Austin became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kajima USA Group and a member of the Kajima family of companies. Kajima Corporation is a leading global engineering and construction contractor. Austin’s headquarters remain in Cleveland, Ohio, with additional offices in California; Georgia; Michigan; Mexico, and the United Kingdom. | The Austin Company is a design-build firm providing site selection, design, engineering, construction, and facility maintenance services. From its founding in 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio, Austin continues to add value to its client’s facility needs.Austin would go from supporting the burgeoning aviation industry in the 1920s to manufacturing plants for the space age and from some of the first automotive manufacturing facilities to computer-automated plants. Austin provides design-build services to eight major industrial market segments, including Aerospace and Defense, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Process Industries, Utility Plant Support, and Commercial.In 2005, The Austin Company became part of the Kajima USA group of companies. Kajima USA is a subsidiary of Kajima Corporation of Japan. In 2021 Austin acquired The Austin Company of the UK, Limited. Austin UK, once part of Austin until it was sold to local managers in 2005, was welcomed back as part of a strategic acquisition. Also in 2021 Austin acquired Gala & Associates, an architectural engineering, design, and project management services for automotive assembly and heavy industrial facilities.
Summit Foods, Inc
Elevate your product with top quality dried fruit. We source only the best berries and fruits and process them to exacting specifications, to provide you with the highest quality fruit ingredients for your recipes and food products.
St. Louis Food Ingredients
SLFI has been a trusted ingredient supplier to breweries and beverage companies in the Midwest for over 30 years. We partner with industry leading domestic and international processors to offer a diverse portfolio of ingredients for beverages including citrus products, cocoa and chocolate, distillates and essences, fruit juice concentrates and purees, herbs and spices, honey, natural colors and flavors, stevia and sweeteners, tropical ingredients, vitamin blends and more. Stop by our booth to learn more about our ingredient portfolio and to see some of our featured ingredients for BrewExpo America! | For over 30 years, St. Louis Food Ingredients has been a trusted broker and distributor to food, beverage, and pet food manufacturers across the Midwest. We proudly partner with leading ingredient processors and distributors from around the world to offer a diverse portfolio for manufacturers of all sizes. Our offerings include chocolate and cocoa powder, egg products, honey, fruits and vegetables, natural color and flavors, oils and shortenings, sauces, seasonings and spices, vitamins and more. Many of our products are available in multiple forms including dried, frozen and liquid. Visit our booth for a full product list and to learn more about our featured ingredients. | SLFI has been a trusted ingredient supplier to Sweets & Snacks companies for over 30 years. We partner with industry leading domestic and international processors to offer a diverse portfolio of ingredients including cocoa and chocolate, colors and flavors, dried fruit, egg products, fruit concentrates and purees, honey, plant-based proteins, stevia and sweeteners, vitamin blends and more. Stop by our booth to learn more about our ingredient portfolio and to see some of our featured ingredients for the Sweet & Snacks Supplier Showcase!