Democracy triumphs in our 2006 Readers' Choice Awards

Colorings
1. Sensient 33%
2. Chr. Hansen 10%
3. Sethness 5%

Dairy Flavors & Ingredients
1. Edlong Dairy Flavors 13%
Kerry 13%
3. Butter Buds 6%
Kraft Food Ingredients 6%

Emulsifiers
1. Danisco 23%
2. ADM 10%
3. American Ingredients 7%

Enzymes
1. Novozymes 19%
2. Danisco 8%
3. Chr. Hansen 7%

Fats & Oils
1. ADM 19%
* Bunge 18%
* Cargill 18%

Gums & Hydrocolloids
1. TIC Gums 34%
2. CP Kelco 16%
3. FMC 8%
* Danisco 7%

Nuts
1. Blue Diamond 16%
2. Diamond Walnut 10%
Sanfilippo & Son 10%

Salt
1. Morton 46%
2. Cargill 31%

Savory Flavors
1. McCormick 14%
2. IFF 9%
3. Givaudan 6%
Kerry/Mastertaste 6%

Stabilizers
1. Danisco 15%
2. TIC Gums 6%
* FMC 5%

Starches
1. National Starch Food Innovation 54%
2. Tate & Lyle 15%
3. Cargill 6%

Sugar
1. Domino 33%
2. C&H 9%
3. Imperial 5%
United Sugars 5%

Sweet Flavors
1. Givaudan 12%
2. IFF 8%
3. Bell Flavors 7%
*David Michael 6%
*Firmenich 6%
*McCormick 5%

Sweeteners
1. Tate & Lyle 23%
2. Cargill 15%
3. ADM 6%
*Danisco Sweeteners 5%
*NutraSweet 5%

Vanilla
1. Virginia Dare 15%
2. David Michael 12%
* McCormick 11%

EQUIPMENT & SERVICES
* Differences of 2% or less are statistically insignificant

Dryers & Ovens
1. Anhydro (formerly APV) 9%
*Wolverine Proctor & Schwartz 8%
*FMC 7%

Extrusion
1. Wenger 9%
2. Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer 5%

Flooring
1. Stonhard 24%
2. Tufco 7%

Flow Measurement
1. Emerson Process Management 37%
2. Endress + Hauser 9%

Form/Fill/Seal Equipment
1. Bosch 11%
*Cryovac 9%
3. Hayssen 8%
*Triangle 6%

Heat Transfer Equipment
1. APV 14%
*Alfa Laval 13%
3. SPX 7%

Lubricants
1. Exxon-Mobil 16%
Lubriplate Div., Fiske Bros. 16%
3. Jax 9%

Metal Detection/X-Ray
1. Mettler-Toledo Safeline 30%
2. Loma 11%
3. Goring Kerr/Thermo Electron 8%
Smiths Heimann 8%
*Fortress 6%

Mixing & Blending
1. Lightnin/SPX 8%
* Hobart 6%
3. Mepaco 5%
Peerless 5%

Motors & Drives
1. Baldor 37%
*Rockwell Automation 36%
3. SEW Eurodrive 7%
*Toshiba 5%
*U.S. Motors/Emerson 5%

Packaging Machinery
1. Bosch/Doboy 5%
Multivac 5%

Packaging Materials
1. Cryovac 11%
*Curwood 10%
*Weyerhaeuser 9%

Power Transmission
1. Rockwell 18%
2. Eurodrive 10%
3. Boston Gear 5%

Pumps
1. Waukesha Cherry-Burrell/SPX 31%
2. Goulds 12%
3. Fristam 7%

Refrigeration & Freezing
1. Frick/York-Johnson Controls 15%
2. Trane 6%
*FMC 5%

Size Reduction
1. Urschel 40%

Uniform Services
1. Cintas 35%
2. Aramark 26%
3. G&K 5%

Weighing/Checkweighing
1. Mettler-Toledo/Hi-Speed 30%
2. Ishida 6%