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From the Blentech family to you and yours, we wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.

Blentech team members are getting ready to see you at Process Expo! One of our team members at the Blentech booth (booth 5017) will be Blentech’s CEO, Daniel Voit. Dan has over 20 years of food industry experience, and is the Chair of the FPSA Prepared Foods Council.

Looking to do product scale up? Testing a new recipe? Proof of concept product testing? We’d love to talk to you about testing!

Blentech is again exhibiting at the FPSA Process Expo this year November 2 -5, 2021 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. On the show agenda is Blentech’s Senior Account Manager Matt Hartman who will again take the stage on November 3rd 10:15 am – 11:45 am to talk about “Privacy, Security, The Cloud and COVID…

We are once again grateful for being recognized this year as the North Bay Business Journal “Best Place to Work in the North Bay”!  This is an honorary designation determined through employee polling, and the results prove that Blentech is one of the best places to work in Sonoma and Marin County. Last year, we were…

Join us today on Blentech’s virtual booth at the IFT 2020 Virtual Trade Show – SHIFT20 – for a Q & A session with Daniel Voit and Keith Weerts. Here’s your chance to go more in depth with them as it relates to topics of IoT and automation in the food industry. You can join…

Blentech’s Sales Engineer Ib Elandaloussi shares his thoughts on how COVID-19 will affect the food industry.

Food processors are facing huge demands for their products. Business continuity is vital. Let’s partner your mission and our purpose. See more on today’s blog.

Last Friday, our greater Blentech team came together for a “virtual lunch break”. Most days of the week, many of us gather in our break areas around the office to eat lunch together. Or stop by an office to share a coffee and just check in. It’s important for us all to make the time…

Our team brings process and equipment solutions that deliver safe, economical, nutritious and good-tasting foods to the WORLD Blentech understands what our Purpose Statement really means during a time of crisis. It means that WE ARE HERE and will continue to be here for you, our customers, who make the food that people depend on.…

Blentech is known for its award winning company culture. As a two-time winner of the North Bay Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in the North Bay, focusing on culture building is important to not only our CEO, Daniel Voit, but a priority for all our leaders at Blentech. Dan recently recorded a podcast with…

Our very own Akhilesh Pandey, International Sales Manager, will be attending Gulfood Manufacturing next week, October 29th – 31st at the Dubai World Trade Center. If you’d like to connect with Akhil while you’re also at the show, please email him directly at apandey@blentech.com. Alternatively, you can call or send him a text at +1-707-230-4909.…

Blentech has again, for the second consecutive year, been selected by the North Bay Business Journal as a “Best Place to Work in the North Bay”! This is an honorary designation that is earned by every one of our employees being polled, the results of which indicate that Blentech is one of the best places…

Many of us here at Blentech spend our time away from the office being active.  We are so lucky to work, and for most of us also live, in Sonoma County, California.   For us, Sonoma County is the ideal area to expand your career and enjoy life outdoors.  Often, our Blentech days allow us to…

Here at Blentech, we don’t let a day like Pi Day pass us by without celebrating.   We happen to know a thing or two about pie filings but it doesn’t hurt to sample the latest pies on the market to stay up to speed.  In fact, stay tuned to our blog for upcoming demonstrations on…

Tara Salt Flats, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Blentech is all over the globe – our equipement, our technologies and our people.  Our International Sales Manager, Akhilesh Pandey, recently traveled to Chile and made sure that Blentech was seen far and wide. Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile No matter where you are in the…

You may think this legend is just another one of the founding employees of Blentech and yes, that’s also true; however – did you know that the 1950 Winner of The Frog Jumping Contest of Calaveras County has been walking these halls for more than 30 years? Our very own John Malcolm Lennox, III won…

As this year draws to a close, we thank you for being a part of all these great experiences – how will we connect with you in 2018? See you in 2018!    

  The holiday spirit is agitating through the Blentech factory!   Blentech wishes you and your families a very happy holiday season!   Our office will be closed at noon PST on Friday, December 22nd and will reopen at 6 am PST on Tuesday, December 26th. Thank you for partnering with us this past year.…

The Blentech Holiday Party was held recently and we had much to reflect on this last year.  Our team gathered with our significant others to share a meal and some good cheer in traditional holiday style.  It was a great event with many happy faces of our Blentech family around each table. Our Chairman and…

Matthew Hartman, Senior Automation Sales Manager I like to push myself, mentally and physically.   I like to challenge myself to be a better version of me, time and again.  Particularly when it comes to fitness.  Over Thanksgiving I had a little tumble, an unexpected accident. While in Oklahoma visiting family, I set out to go “rucking”…

  Blentech draws many smart and talented employees from all over the world.  We recently welcomed Connor Edman to our Service Team.  Connor is a UC Davis graduate, one of nearly a dozen UC Davis graduates at Blentech, who brings food safety knowledge, tenacity and a team focused attitude. Connor holds down the Service phone…

Team Blentech on top of Taylor Mountain, Sonoma County, California Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving is a big shopping day.  “Black Friday” sales are all around.   In our part of California, the day after Thanksgiving is also a day to get outside with your family and go for a walk or a hike with friends. …

The Blentech team has a lot to be thankful for this year. Last week, we gathered to share a meal and talk about how thankful we are in light of the recent fires to our area. We are thankful that we all could gather together in our thriving business and give thanks that we have…

Blentech participated in the Rebuild Sonoma County Job Fair last week to help those in our community who were so severely affected by the devastating fires last month find new employment.   Blentech was one of over 170 employers who attended looking to recruit candidates from all over the county.  It was our honor to meet…

Recently, we had the honor to host a local Girl Scout troop to come tour our corporate offices and factory to study its energy efficiency.  Our Applications Engineer, Erin Whelan, a Girl Scout herself, answered all kinds of questions about the building and its history.  Our building was built in 1991 and updated in 1994.…

Our Blentech Applications Engineering, R&D and Marketing Departments had an office potluck lunch today.  Members of our team brought to the table not only beautiful, delicious food but good cheer.  A lucky benefit for us having food scientists as a part of our team. It was a special time for our Blentech family to come…

Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul. –Emily Logan Decens As the rain falls on the hills around Sonoma County, our Blentech family and the community is starting to heal from the events of the last 10 days.  We appreciate all the calls and emails to check in our Blentech family.  We are here,…

  The smoke is beginning to clear but there are still fires burning. With so many of our friends and families affected, Blentech is doing it’s best to stand with it’s employees and the community.  We’ve donated the edible inventory (rice, pasta and tomato sauce) from our test and innovation center to the local shelters…

One of our esteemed colleagues, Ned Connelly, joined our Team Orange at the Process Expo 2017 for opening day held at McCormick Place in Chicago on Blentech’s booth #2020.  Ned is our regional sales manager based in our East Coast office located in Wilmington, North Carolina that provides superior sales and service to our valued North…

Greetings from Team Tangerine! Joel Meyn, Daniel Erdman, Jimmy Zertuche, Chris Kelly, Drew Moug, David Ellis This handsome group of men comprise the mechanical engineering team at Blentech. Recently we’ve been designing a system that will end up being the largest school lunch program in the country, producing up to 20,000 lbs of food per…

Nancy Corriveau, Director of Operations and Oakley Did you know that a dog’s sense of smell can be up to a million times stronger than their owners? Animals are very particular, even more particular than humans, when it comes to their food. This means that the precision and quality of these products are as important,…

The Blentech Sales and Marketing team spent a glorious afternoon in the city by the bay.  Although we have satellite offices in Indiana, Arkansas and North Carolina, we take pride in being a Bay Area technology company.  And soaked in the sun and sights of what the Bay Area has to offer!   This team…

Mark Cook, Blentech Assistant Shop Superintendent – 1985 to today What was your title when you first started? I started as a welder at Custom Stainless first in 1985.  (Many Custom Stainless employees went on to join Blentech when it started in 1986.)  I was working for a dairy equipment company but wanted to take a…

There is no question that buying equipment can be an overwhelming task.  Here is just one example of how working with the right company can solve problems through collaboration. Establishing a relationship by asking questions Sunsof Inc, an all natural traditional empanada producer out of Miami, Florida, first approached Blentech as a growing company looking…

  Safety is important at Blentech.  Today we celebrated many safety accomplishments and the one we are most proud of is reflected in the photo above – 1,319 days without a lost time accident! To acknowledge our team that makes safety a daily priority,  every few months we have an all-staff safety lunch and today was…

DuWayne Geigle, Shop Foreman – Blentech employee 1986 to today What was your title when you first started? I started as a welder in 1978 at Custom Stainless. Then in 1981, Custom Stainless became CSE. In 1986, Darrell Horn (current Chairman and Owner) started Blentech and things really took off from there. What did you do in that…

Blentech Team Orange had a fantastic first day at the IFT 2017 show in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Blentech booth #4867. Blentech is also on Twitter.  Follow us @BlentechCorp to see what else we are up to at the IFT 2017 show – it may have something to do with Elvis. Stop by and…

Making the decision to purchase new equipment is not easy.   Weighing the benefits of new technologies, determining supplier capabilities and assessing capital budgets are all issues that need focus to determine what critical decision needs to be made. A visit to the Blentech Innovation Center can help guide you with these decisions. Our customer Wildbrine found…

Team Orange, aka the Blentech Team, landed in Orange County last night then set up our booth today at the Natural Products Expo West in sunny Anaheim in Orange County, CA. If you’re attending the expo, come check us out at booth #249 to learn about how Blentech food processing equipment can cook your ingredients…

When launching a new product, starting a new project or simply trying to grow your business, every business owner or professional manager is faced with the same dilemma. We are torn between buying the equipment solution we know is best and working within the available capital budget. This challenge of course causes us to have…