We serve all your creative, development and engineering needs for confectionery, food and pharmaceutical products. Because of our years of experience and size, we can offer our clients not only technical/engineering expertise, but also worldwide product, manufacturer and marketing knowledge. This added information allows our clients to identify opportunities, as well as obstacles early in a project’s development.

Knechtel is a full-service international food and pharmaceutical consultant. The late Herbert Knechtel upon his early retirement from Marshall Field’s formed Knechtel Laboratories. Herb had worked in the candy industry all of his life and opened up his consulting business in Chicago in 1955, and made his move to Skokie in 1957.