Company Category: Product Development and Innovation

Xylem Lab Solutions

Lab Solutions, one of the three foundational business units of Xylem Analytics, delivers a powerful portfolio of trusted analytical techniques designed to meet your most demanding laboratory challenges. With seven core brands and over a dozen testing solutions, our tools support four essential market segments: Food & Beverages, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, Environmental & Municipal, and Chemical & Energy. You may wonder how one team can cover so much ground—the answer is experience. With a combined 400+ years of product development and customer support expertise, our specialists make it easy to implement tailored solutions that streamline workflows and deliver reliable results. From spectrophotometry to electrochemistry, the technologies we offer are the very same that sit side-by-side on your lab bench. Our unified platform brings them together—a state-of-the-art, ready-to-use analytical portfolio built with your lab in mind. Whatever your market, Lab Solutions is here to support you with trusted data, proven performance, and expert guidance. Let us help solve your workflow challenges—visit us today to learn how. | Xylem Lab Solutions represents the brands our customers know and love: Bellingham + Stanley, OI Analytical, YSI and Gerhardt. Xylem Lab Solutions serves as a one stop shop for every lab, making it easy for our customers to find the products and the expertise they trust. We’re committed to meeting our partners where they are, and we are proud to offer reliable lab equipment and technologies to help with any analysis– big or small.

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Western Foods

Your premier high-quality grain, flour and inclusions production partner. As leaders in the industry, we specialize in wholesale milled rice, rice flour milling, and providing top-tier grain processing mills. Our commitment to health and sustainability is evident in our range of products, including gluten-free flours, rice and extruded crisps. | Western Foods takes an innovative approach to developing gluten-free specialty and functional ingredients by utilizing the many benefits of rice flour and ancient grains. Our accredited gluten-free facilities are certified Organic, Kosher, AIB, SQF Level 2 & 3, Whole Grains Council, and non-GMO verified. Western Foods is vertically integrated and provides grower sourcing, seed selection, storage, grain processing, flour milling, blending, and single and double-screw extrusion.

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Wenger Manufacturing

Founded in 1935, Wenger is the global leader in extrusion cooking systems used to produce plant-based protein foods and snacks, pet foods, and aquatic feed. Wenger’s primary operations are in Sabetha, Kansas USA. For decades, Wenger has led the industry with innovative solutions that are ruggedly built yet flexible to meet market dynamics. Wenger process experts, along with the renowned Wegner Technical Center, assist clients in developing and manufacturing world-class extruded foods. With offices and service teams located around the world, Wenger supports clients in every region. | Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. is an innovative global leader in extrusion processing and has been supplying solutions for processing for more than 80 years. We offer a broad portfolio of premium extrusion technology for plant-based ingredients or meat free alternatives, i.e. High Moisture Meat Analogues and dry textured plant proteins or other hybrid processing technology such as PowerHeater. Also serving producers of ready-to-eat cereals, pastas, snack foods, breading, and other extruded food and industrial products. | Founded in 1935, Wenger is the global leader in extrusion cooking systems used to produce plant-based protein foods and snacks, pet foods, and aquatic feed. Wenger’s primary operations are in Sabetha, Kansas USA. For decades, Wenger has led the industry with innovative solutions that are ruggedly built yet flexible to meet market dynamics. Wenger process experts, along with the renowned Wegner Technical Center, assist clients in developing and manufacturing world-class extruded foods. With offices and service teams located around the world, Wenger supports clients in every region.

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W Hydrocolloids Inc

We are a cornerstone in aquaculture innovation. Since its first days, W Hydrocolloids, Inc. has always been centered on growth, innovation, and providing only the best ingredients in the food solutions business. Starting with a single manufacturing plant for semi-refined carrageenan in the 1980s, WHI has now established itself as the optimum food ingredients service provider covering the entire 7 continents.

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Virginia Dare Flavors & Extract Co.

Flavor Experts Since 1923. For over 100 years, Virginia Dare has worked alongside our partners to develop products delivering preferred taste. Our passion for premium flavors is rooted in our dedication to exceptional flavoring solutions. Brands around the world rely on our deep expertise in premium, sustainably sourced extracts—vanilla, tea, coffee, cocoa—characterizing flavors, flavor masking, and taste modulation to formulate one-of-a-kind sensory profiles.

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Vidya

From farm to innovation, Vidya combines science and sustainability to create exceptional biotic and botanic solutions. With over two decades of experience, the company is dedicated to delivering high-quality biotics, herbal extracts, and innovative services. Vidya emphasizes social and environmental responsibility while adhering to the highest industry standards.

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Van Drunen Farms / FutureCeuticals

Van Drunen Farms and FutureCeuticals offer a wide variety of plant-based ingredients derived from fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains, for application in the traditional food and beverage, functional food and beverage, and foodservice industries. Our extensive global manufacturing operations and over 150 years of farming experience help us serve our customers well. We strive to be a go-to source for inspiration, innovation, and nutritious solutions that help bring products to life.

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USA Pulses

USA Pulses is an innovative group of organizations bringing people together to deliver the highest quality, nutrient-dense, regenerative, and affordable foods on the planet. Pulses (dry peas, lentils, chickpeas, and dry beans) are nutritional powerhouses packed with protein, fiber, and other essential nutrients. Through advocacy, research funding initiatives, and policy engagement, USA Pulses drives awareness about the health benefits, sustainability, and versatility of pulses.

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