Concept Flavors excels at developing delicious, innovative and exciting flavors from concept to finished product. They specialize in products for the Dairy, Beverage and Bakery industries. They offer outstanding customer service and quality, supported by over 150 years of experience provided by their dedicated staff.

They have two western manufacturing plants, both Certified Kosher and Organic. In addition, they have two R& D labs that are equipped to create flavors that are current with market trends. Concept Flavors has the expertise and technology to develop the most complete range of flavors in the food industry.

Shurtape Technologies is a family owned company based in Hickory, NC, with 12 manufacturing factories worldwide producing over 700 million square years of tape annually. With a start as a manufacturer of textile yarns, they expanded their line to include paper-backed tapes in 1955. They quickly expanded to become one of the leading tape manufacturers in the world.

Shurtape is a premier manufacturer of pressure sensitive tapes for carton sealing. In addition to this product line, they also produce Masking, Paper, Cloth, Duct, Foil, and Film tapes. Their product line includes over 125 types of tapes, with many different roll sizes. Shurtape products can be purchased at Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Office Max, Staples, Sears, and many other leading retailers.

Mitsubishi International Food Ingredients, Inc is a leading supplier of functional ingredients for the food, beverage and nuetraceutical industries in North America and other parts of the world. Mitsubishi International Food Ingredients has the knowledge, expertise and relationships to provide their customers the food ingredients they need.

With over thirty distribution centers throughout the United States, Mitsubishi is positioned to serve the food and beverage industry efficiently. Their product line includes the following ingredients:

• Ascorbic Acid
• Calcium Lactate
• Citric Acid
• Lactic Acid
• Potassium Benzoate
• Potassium Citrate
• Potassium Sorbate
• Maltitol
• Xanthan Gum

AmeriQuest Material Handling Services offers a complete program for forklift parts and maintenance. These programs can be used to purchase forklift parts, including wheels, tires, and batteries at a savings of 15% to 45%. In addition to parts, AmeriQuest Material Handling offers a total fleet management program and a remarketing program for lift trucks. These are great programs our members can use to save money.

The AmeriQuest parts procurement program includes the ability to order parts directly from SMH, the world’s largest distributor for forklift parts. This will allow our members the ability to purchase replacement parts at wholesale pricing, instead of the retail pricing charged by dealers. The program also includes direct programs with GNB Excide for batteries and chargers, and Stellana, Superior, and Solideal for wheels and tires. Our members will also be able to purchase pallet jacks at fantastic pricing directly from Mobile, a manufacturer that makes most of the OEM pallet jacks in the U.S.

Batory Foods, headquartered in Des Plaines, IL, has been providing quality ingredients for food manufacturers since 1979. Batory Foods is the parent company to Chicago Sweeteners, Sugar Incentives, Quality Ingredients, Total Sweeteners, LSI, and Ingredients International. Batory Foods is a preferred All Star supplier for granulated sugar, liquid sucrose, and many other food ingredients.

Batory offers a broad product range with highly competitive market pricing. They service food, dairy, beverage, bakery, and nutritional food manufacturers around the country through twenty-three regional distribution centers. With a single distribution channel, they offer greater efficiency in the food ingredient marketplace.

Pinnacle is the national accounts parts program for Daimler Trucks North America. The Pinnacle program includes parts for Freightliner, Sterling, and Western Star. Daimler Trucks North America is the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in North America, offering medium and heavy trucks for all types of applications. Daimler Trucks North America began manufacturing trucks in 1942.

Pinnacle is Daimler’s state of the art centralized billing system. With Pinnacle, you’ll always be ensured competitive, nationwide, “not-to-exceed” pricing for your parts purchases. Parts pricing is audited, so you won’t be overcharged. The Pinnacle program gives All Star members that have Freightliner, Sterling, and Western Star trucks in their fleet the opportunity to save on parts purchases for these trucks by buying at national account pricing.

Founded in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. is one of North America’s largest producers of heavy-duty trucks. Mack is part of the Volvo Group, and the parts program for Mack and Volvo branded trucks is MV Preferred.

MV Preferred is a powerful purchasing program that guarantees the highest level of service and the greatest purchasing power for parts, maintenance and repairs. This program gives national account pricing usually reserved for the largest fleets. It can be used at over 270 participating Mack and Volvo dealers across the country. With national account pricing, it gives you control over your costs for parts and maintenance of your fleet.

Oliver Rubber, headquartered in Greenville, SC, has been producing quality rubber products since 1912. As a world leader in retreading, Oliver’s systematic approach includes the controlled manufacture of tread rubber and retreading equipment, and the development and application of advanced technology.

Every Oliver elite licensed retreading location utilizes Oliver’s precure rubber and equipment in accordance with Oliver’s technical and process specifications. This ensures that the quality of Oliver retreads will be both high and consistent from dealer to dealer.

All Oliver retreads and repairs are warranted to 2/32nds of tread depth. Should unlikely warrantee situations arise, adjustment can be made at any of the licensed retreaders included in the extensive Oliver network that covers North America. Oliver’s 24-hour Roadside Emergency Dispatch service is available to all fleet customers, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Shell Oil Company is the U.S. based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company based in the Netherlands. The U.S. headquarters for Shell are located in Houston, Texas. Shell has 22,000 employees in the United States. Shell is one of America’s largest oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers.

Shell Lubricants markets products under the Rotella, Rimula, Spirax, Donax, FormulaShell, Alvinia, and Retinax brands in the United States. Their Rimula line is the world’s leading heavy-duty diesel engine oil, providing exceptional protection against diesel engine wear. Their Rotella line includes heavy-duty diesel engine oils, coolants, and multi-grade oils, each designed to provide excellent performance for fleets across the country.

Founded in 1971 and located in Illinois, Arpac has a vast packaging product line that includes shrink wrappers, shrink bundlers, tray erectors, case erectors, tray packers, and pallet stretch wrappers. Arpac has been recognized as a leading manufacturer of innovative end-of-line secondary packaging systems.

The Arpac product line includes equipment that was designed and built for dairy and food processing environments. The Arpac 108F is a compact, right angle shrink bundling system designed to collate and over-wrap multiple configurations of scrounds, rounds, squares, pints, quarts, cans, and other food containers. Their Brandpac BPMP-5000 multipacker is ideal to meet the demands of the high-volume food and beverage industry.

Ward Adhesives is an international, value added adhesives supplier servicing the adhesives needs of the food and beverage industries. With headquarters in Pewaukee, WI and strategically placed distribution centers in GA, TX, PA, NY, WI and CA, Ward Adhesives is well positioned to serve your adhesives needs.

Ward Adhesives takes a “business approach” to reducing your total adhesives costs. A key component of the Ward program is conducting regular line audits, where both costs and savings are measured and documented. Their “planned order program” helps you keep your inventories at proper levels, with the confidence that Ward will provide on time order deliveries.

Adhesives Specialists was established in 1983 and manufacturers a wide range of adhesives from their modern plant in Allentown, PA. Their reputation for customer service and field technical service is excellent. They are able to serve their nationwide base of customers from Allentown, PA and from distribution centers in Austin, TX and Portland, OR. They offer a full line of adhesives applicator parts and systems at deeply discounted prices.

Liquid adhesives are available in 5-gallon pails, drums and totes. Hot melt adhesives are available in 50 lb. cartons, 1200 lb. gaylords and 1500 lb. super sacks.

Becwood Technology Group is a Minneapolis based company specializing in functional food ingredients. They are a major supplier to many bakeries, dairies and specialty food manufacturers. They provide a variety of Inulin/FOS products, Agave Syrups, Blue Agave products and GOS liquids. Inulin/FOS & Agave products have many benefits in product applications such as; increased fiber, low calorie sweetener, fat replacement, sugar replacement, increased calcium absorption, probiotic and texture properties. Many progressive food manufacturers have long discovered the benefits in using these functional food ingredients in their products.

Becwood Technology Group sells to both large and small customers, providing in-stock delivery, excellent quality, along with friendly and knowledgeable customer service. Becwood Technology Group continues to be innovative in their approach to providing the best quality forms of Inulin/FOS & Agave products on the market today.

Jogue, Inc. is a full service flavor company, providing quality flavors, fragrances and specialty dairy ingredients. They have four manufacturing facilities within the United States. The Northville Laboratories plant is located in Northville, Michigan and has been serving the Food and Dairy industries since 1910. Northville Laboratories is well known for their fine ice cream flavors, fruit bases and variegates.

Dairy flavors are the cornerstone of the Jogue product line. They offer a wide selection of flavors and ingredients designed to meet their customer’s manufacturing needs.

Northville Labs produces category I and II background flavors for ice cream. Their product line also includes chocolate sauces, chocolate powder, vanilla extracts, variegates, Egg Nog bases, fruit preparations, tropical fruit bases, fruit purees, sherbet bases, and dairy fruit bases.

Founded in 1905, C.H. Robinson is one of the largest third party logistics companies in the world. C.H. Robinson is a global provider of multimodal transportation services and logistics solutions. C.H. Robinson works with approximately 50,000 transportation companies, operating through a network of more than 230 offices in North America, Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East.

The core services they offer include: Truckload, Less-than-truckload (LTL), intermodal, and flatbed with total North American Coverage including Mexico and Canada, as well as Global Forwarding, air freight, and temperature-controlled LTL.. Each shipment is monitored from start to finish using their leading edge technology. Their real-time, online systems deliver complete supply chain visibility and shippers can obtain instant quotes without negotiating rates with several carriers.

Foodline, headquartered in West Berlin, NJ, is the premier manufacturer of purification equipment for storage tanks used for liquid sweeteners and edible oils. Foodline has been in business 38 years since the corn millers first came to them looking for handling systems for liquid sweeteners.

Food industry standards call for the use of systems with Absolute (HEPA) filtration for liquid sweeteners. The Foodline storage tank ultraviolet air purification system can be mounted externally and purifies the air through a combination of UV light and HEPA filtration to prevent condensation and contaminants from entering the storage tank.

For maximum protection, plants should replace germicidal UV sterilamps every six months as UV output diminishes over time. Electrostatic filters should be cleaned regularly as conditions require and the HEPA filters should be replaced annually. Proper maintenance of the system ensures that your corn sweetener and edible oils remain free of contaminants.

Founded in 1961 and located in Pennsylvania, Loveshaw has a product line that includes case formers, case erectors, case sealers, and industrial inkjet printers. Loveshaw continues to focus their expertise on the conception and development of the best packaging and coding systems in the industry.

Loveshaw was the first company in North America to develop a low-cost line of case sealers capable of applying pressure-sensitive tape to boxes when they created the Little David Case Sealer line. The Little David line gives low volume manufacturers the benefits of factory automation. Over the years, Loveshaw expanded the Little David line to include printers, erectors, and labelers.

The Little David LD-Xss Washdown Case Sealer is an excellent case sealer for washdown environments. This case sealer has an Anti-Microbial design, is easy to clean, and is designed for fast maintenance and changeover.

Located in Porter, Indiana, Signature Graphics is a nationwide leader in fleet graphics, providing fleet identity solutions for many of the best known companies in America . Their 100,000 square foot manufacturing facilty is equipped with the finest printing technologies available to the industry.

Signature Graphics has the distinction of being a 3M Scotchprint Graphics Authorized manufacturer. Their manufacturing methods use 3M label stock and the processes are quality tested, approved, and backed by 3M and the 3M MCS warranty.

Their state-of-the-art grand format digital printing and large format screen printing equipment gives them massive throughput capacity for large graphics programs. A formal quality control program assures their customers an extremely high level of product quality and durability. Signature Graphics has a large national sales force, with sales reps located in most regions of the country, allowing them to give customers across the country the individual attention they desire.

Fleet graphics are the cheapest advertising medium, and a good fleet graphics program can be used to create the image you need for your company. A single truck can generate up to 16 million visual impressions in a year.

Beverage Flavors International (BFI) develops and manufactures proprietary beverage flavor concentrates for bottlers in the private label and private branded beverage market around the world. Beverage Flavors International provides a high quality, superior tasting product at a competitive price.

BFI is an innovative company that focuses primarily on the high volume Citrus Punch category and associated flavors. The BFI team is highly experienced and has over 20 years experience in the juice drink category. They produce a fresh, smooth and clean tasting product that is easy for bottlers to use.

C. Nelson Manufacturing, located in Oak Harbor , OH has been manufacturing ice cream cabinets, ice cream carts and related equipment for over 100 years. Nelson was the first company to make a mechanically refrigerated ice cream cabinet. Nelson has become very skilled at solving customer problems for unique designs, from extreme environmental conditions to exquisite-looking pieces.

Over the past 15 year, Nelson has distinguished itself in the custom design of commercial ice cream carts. Their ice cream cart line includes outdoor carts with coldplate refrigeration, as well as indoor carts that can be plugged into a wall socket. These carts are perfect for merchandising ice cream and gelato products in remote locations, which gives All Star members the ability to merchandise their products in more locations.

Nelson has the reputation of producing the finest ice cream cabinets for the frozen dessert industry. Their product line for ice cream retail locations includes visual dipping cabinets, conventional ice cream cabinets, flavorrail cabinets, and custom dipping and custard holding cabinets.

Premier Plastics, located in Omaha , is a leading manufacturer of polystyrene foam shipping containers. These foam containers are ideal for shipping or storing frozen and temperature sensitive products such as dairy products. Premier Plastics makes several standard sizes to fit most shipping needs.

Their S-Line has 1.5” thick expanded polystyrene walls, and their T-Line has 2” thick walls. Both of these lines have excellent thermal resistance. Their tight fitting lids provide an excellent seal. Most sizes are available in an assembled 150 pound test corrugated box, or can be purchased unboxed in a bundle, stacked on a corrugate tray. Most orders can be shipped the same day as ordered.