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Sturm Foods Facility Tour - Manawa, WI
Sign-up deadline is Friday, April 13.
Cost is $20 to register
(payable at the door by cash or check.) NEW! Credit
card payment is now available for advance purchases. Please let
Beth Ann know you wish to pay by credit card when you RSVP.
CAR POOL INFORMATION: Please
contact Kesha Hopp at kesha.hopp@tateandlyle.com.
Carpooling will be organized from Milwaukee, Madison and possibly IL.
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April Meeting -
Tuesday, April 17
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Program:
Registration begins - 5:30pm
Tour & Q&A - 6pm
Dinner catered by Subway - 7pm
Location:
Sturm Foods
1250 Industrial Lane
Manawa, WI 54949
tel: 920-596-2511
800-34-STURM (800-347-8876)
View
on Map and Get Directions
From
Rockford/Beloit
Take I-90 north to the Portage area where you will exit on
I-39 (Highway 51). Continue north on I-39 to Plainfield. Exit I-39 onto
Highway 73 East through Plainfield. Just on the east side of Plainfield
exit onto Country Trunk P (left turn). Follow County Trunk P to Highway
22 (stop sign) and then turn left onto highway 22. Follow Highway 22
all the way to Manawa, about 28 miles.
From
Chicago/Milwaukee
Take 294 bypass north around Chicago. Take I-94 west up to
Milwaukee, where you will pick up the 894 West bypass. Take 894 to
US-45 north. Take US-45 to US-41 north to Appleton. Exit onto US-10
west. Continue on to Weyauwega, (25 miles) where you will exit to the
right on highway 110. Travel north on 110 for 6 miles until
intersecting with Highway 22/54. Make a right turn onto 22/54. After 3
miles, highway 22 will split from 54, heading north. Turn left and
drive into downtown Manawa (5 miles).
RSVP to Beth Ann
Nylander at bnylander@kraftfoods.com. Let her know
if you will be paying by credit card in advance or by cash or check at
the door.
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Upcoming Event
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UW-La Crosse
16th Annual Symposium on Industrial and Fermentation Microbiology
Friday, April
27
For program
and registration information, please click on the link.
pdf file of
Program Agenda
Radisson
Center - Downtown, La Crosse, WI
Do you have any ideas or suggestions for meeting locations or
topics? We would love to here them! As we try to make WIFT
a strong resource for continued education in the food industry, we need
to hear from you what is important. Please email your comments to
Caryl Beal, WIFT Web Editor, at caryl@dempseycorporation.com.
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We hope to see
you at the April
Manufacturing Facility Tour!
Sincerely,
Wisconsin IFT
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This
is a plant tour!
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GMP and Non-Disclosure
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Sturm Foods requires that all visitors follow Good
Manufacturing Practices. You can download a copy of their dress
code and a non-disclosure agreement by clicking the link above.
This is a rare opportunity to tour in a manufacturing
facility!
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Featured Facility
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Sturm Foods, Inc. manufactures dry grocery products for
retail and foodservice industries. The company specializes in various
dry product categories, such as hot cereals, organic and natural
products, sugar free drink mix sticks, sugar free 12 quart drink mixes,
and hot cocoa and cappuccino. It offers hot cereals, cappuccino and hot
cocoa mixes, milk modifiers, baking cocoa, instant nonfat dry milk,
puddings and gelatins, grits, creamy rice, and dessert mixes; and sugar
free drink mixes, organic products, cocoa, grits, hot wheat cereal,
drink mixes, sugar based drink mixes, and drink sticks. The company
also provides private label manufacturing services; contract packaging
services, which include cartons, pouches, microwavable cups, composite
canisters, plastic canisters, 1/5-ounce to 2-ounce sticks/packets, and
bulk packs. Sturm Foods, Inc. was formerly known as A.Sturm and Sons,
Inc. The company was founded in 1905 and is based in Manawa, Wisconsin.
It has additional offices in China and the United Kingdom. As of March
2, 2010, Sturm Foods, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Treehouse Foods
Inc.
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