Lantmännen Unibake USA boosts capacity, enhances food safety and automates artisan baking in St. Petersburg, Fla.

It’s impossible to predict the future. But with a new $30 million plant, the veteran staff at Hill Country Bakery, San Antonio, Texas, is doing its best to prepare for whatever their clients may want tomorrow. 

For Mark (Par) Grandinetti and Doyle Converse, it was like déjà vu all over again. Since the 1990s, the two had worked at Western Country Pies, the Salt Lake City bakery that was their base for more than a decade before it shut down in 2004.