July 20, 2026 – The American Bakers Association (ABA) and Intertek Alchemy have come together to make ABA’s Bakers Manufacturing Academy available through the Alchemy Training System as the ABA Baking Skills Library, providing bakery operators with convenient access to industry-developed technical training designed to strengthen workforce knowledge, improve operational consistency, and confidently execute baking processes across every shift.
Through this collaboration, Alchemy customers can now add ABA’s baking curriculum directly into their employees’ training plans. On Intertek Alchemy’s platform, the ABA Baking Skills Library combines foundational baking education with product-specific and process-focused training, helping bakeries standardize knowledge across facilities, shifts, and teams.
This partnership advances ABA’s Strategic Plan goal of establishing the commercial baking industry as a destination workplace by equipping baking manufacturers with the workforce development resources that support employee recruitment, retention, engagement, and career growth. By making trusted industry training more accessible, ABA and Intertek Alchemy are helping employers strengthen workforce capabilities while creating greater opportunities for employees to build long-term careers in baking.
“ABA is committed to helping baking companies build skilled, confident workforces through accessible, high-quality training,” said Samantha Moore, Vice President of Events and Programing at the American Bakers Association. “Developing and retaining talent is essential to our vision of making commercial baking a destination workplace. By partnering with Intertek Alchemy, we are extending the reach of our training programs and making it easier for bakery teams to access the knowledge and resources they need to improve consistency, reduce waste, and support long-term success.”
"At Intertek Alchemy, we believe better business performance starts with confident, capable frontline employees," said Ali Knapp, President of Intertek People Assurance. "By bringing ABA's trusted baking curriculum into the Alchemy Training System, we're making it easier for bakeries to deliver consistent, high-quality training at scale. Together, we're helping customers strengthen workforce capability, improve operational consistency, and give employees the knowledge they need to succeed every day."
These online training courses provide industry-specific, technical education for bakery production employees at multiple skill levels. The courses will focus on training for bread, hamburger and hot dog buns, variety hearth breads, cookies and crackers, sheeting and laminating, wire cut cookies, rotary cookies and crackers, and sandwich cookies and crackers.
For more information about ABA’s workforce development programs, visit www.americanbakers.org.
To learn more about the ABA Baking Skills Library available through Alchemy, visit https://www.alchemysystems.com/expert-commercial-baking-skills-training-by-aba/
About the American Bakers Association
The American Bakers Association (ABA) is the largest and most established trade association for the commercial baking industry in the United States. ABA’s community includes more than 350 baker and allied member companies, representing thousands of commercial baking manufacturing locations across the nation.
Since 1897, ABA has served as the voice of the baking industry, offering compelling advocacy, insightful thought leadership, and comprehensive research on industry trends. ABA members also benefit from extensive business services including premier networking events, impactful knowledge sharing, and effective workforce development programs and training resources. ABA is committed to enhancing its mission by growing the category and promoting the industry as the destination workplace. In 2025, ABA earned the prestigious Great Place To Work® Certification, underscoring its commitment to delivering on the Higher Level Impact strategic objective by fostering a strong internal culture that drives excellence for the commercial baking industry.
About Intertek Alchemy
Intertek Alchemy helps frontline organizations build safer, stronger, and more capable workforces. Purpose-built for manufacturing, food processing, distribution, and other operational environments, Alchemy combines frontline learning, communication, coaching, and workforce enablement to improve safety, quality, compliance, and operational performance. As part of Intertek People Assurance, Alchemy empowers organizations to develop confident employees, reduce risk, and drive greater consistency across every shift.
