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Automatic Bagging for Bagels and English Muffins
Formost Fuji presents its automatic bagging system for bagels and English muffins, which can bag product in a penny-pack configuration. The infeed system consists of a metering conveyor, grouper and drop chute, prior to stacking the product into a bucket infeed conveyor and gently carrying it into a bag with specially designed paddles. The system is carefully engineered for a trouble-free operation, and the bag opening system provides greater irregularity tolerance. www.formostfuji.com
Product Consistency with Reduced Footprint
Reading Bakery Systems introduces its multi-pass environmentally controlled proofer to accelerate dough development time in a smaller footprint. The proofer allows for control of heat and humidity with an intuitive PLC and is optimized by a full enclosure around the machine for efficiency, maintenance and cleaning. www.readingbakery.com
Versatile Dough Dividing with Gentle Scaling
Reiser’s Vemag HP-R Series dough divider with an Allen-Bradley control system provides the latest PLC technology and machine communication. Designed for bakery applications with a newly engineered product infeed system, updated doublescrew portioning technology and a user-friendly touchscreen, the machine handles and scales product more gently and precisely. www.reiser.com
Two Ways to Reduce Costly Gluten Needs
Corbion offers two additions to its Pristine line: Pristine 2200 and Pristine 100 G. Pristine 2200 is a conditioning system replacement that enhances mixing and machinability, giving consistent product quality and greater tolerance and strength. The 100 G solution can be applied on top of existing conditioning systems to reduce supplementation with vital wheat gluten without compromising gas retention. www.corbion.com/bakery
Jet Pulse Filtration
Capway Automation presents its new Depanner External Fine Particulate (DEFP) Jet-Pulse filter system, eliminating flour dust and other light particulates not removed by a standard Cyclone separator. The DEFP is designed for vacuum operations, and the reverse jet pulse blast removes particulates from the filters. It can be seamlessly integrated with the Capway depanning system. www.capwayautomation.com
Clean Label Mold Inhibitor
J&K Ingredients offers its new clean label mold inhibitor SOR-Mate. It serves as an effective alternative to chemical preservatives such as sorbic acid or potassium sorbate. The innovation can keep baked goods mold-free while maintaining their quality without the need for artificial preservatives. www.jkingredients.com
Flexible Case Packing
BluePrint Automation’s Gantry 300 Swing case packer, a top- and side-load solution, picks and loads product standing up or laying down on the same machine. The “swing” can case pack into RSC or retail-ready cases, trays and other containers. With quick changeover between recipes, it can run pouches, bags, cartons and more. www.blueprintautomation.com
Environmentally Friendly Spraying
Unifiller’s Uni-Sprayer solution is designed to eliminate costly single-use individual aerosol canisters and provide a more environmentally friendly option. The machine — which can spray oil and more — is sanitary, compact and easy to clean, allowing for the spraying and flocking of a variety of products. Applications include pan release oil, egg wash, milk, simple syrups, jams, fillings, sauces and more. www.unifiller.com
Maintain Product Freshness with Enzymes
LeSaffre presents an enzyme-based alternative to MDGs, giving commercial bakers a label-friendly alternative that maintains softness and freshness in pan bread and buns. The enzymes are able to outperform MDGs to extend fresh-baked, short-term softness at a lower usage level. www.lesaffre.com
Cut Compressed Air Costs
RexFab offers its fully electric Pan Stacker-Unstacker, eliminating the need for costly compressed air. The system uses a combination of servo-motor technology, in-house developed electromagnets and controllers to deliver accurate and gentle stacking and unstacking. It accommodates bread and bun pans of varying sizes, and it can stack and unstack pans open-side-up or openside-down. www.rexfab.com
Homogenize Medium- to High-Viscosity Substances
ROSS’ Triple Shaft Mixers with SLIM technology offer mixing applications for slurries, pastes, gels, creams and suspensions of medium to high viscosity. They’re designed for full vacuum operation and include a three-wind anchor agitator and Teflon blades. www.mixers.com
COBOTS, ROBOTS & AUTOMATION
Robotic Packing . Smart Conveyors . Robotic Decorating . Tray Management
Equipment automation built to help you with:
Labor shortages. Repetitive stress injuries. Managing operational costs. Product consistency & throughput. Dull, dangerous and dirty tasks.
BAKER-BOT Versatile, userfriendly Cobot.
CAKE LAYERING SYSTEM Smart conveyor that stacks iced layers of cake.
DECO-BOT Dual robotic decorating system.
Small and Mid-Range Dividers
Handtmann brings flexibility to small and mid-range bakeries with its new dividers, improving efficiency with targeted capabilities to address bakery-specific requirements. The advanced editions of the VF 600 PLUS series and new VF 800 and VF 800 Scalable Dividers have a short feed system with gentle vane cell handling for product quality, portion accuracy and integrated process monitoring that simplifies operations. www.handtmann.us
Gluten Protein Reduction through Enzymes
REPCO’s enzyme technology XPRO effectively replaces large quantities of gluten protein. A technique that has been used for more than a decade by international flour millers, REPCO is now making the technique available to US bakers. The enzymes also upgrade other components of flour to effectively replace spring wheat with lower-cost options. www.repcoworld.com/xpro
Accurate All-Purpose Metering Feeder
Brabender’s FlexWall Plus loss-in-weight feeder is an effective all-purpose metering feeder solution suitable for nearly every type of bulk material. It ensures consistent screw fill levels and proper mass flow thanks to its paddle-massaged flexible hopper. The patented trapezoidal shape positions bulk material at the optimum flow angle to feed the screw and performs well in continuous or batching applications. www.brabenderti.com
Sanitary Flowwrapping
Cavanna introduces its new and improved flowwrapping systems with enhanced sanitary design. The new edition allows better and quicker cleaning of the distribution system through the exit of the flow wrapping machine, allowing for complete toolless disassembly of the entire system in preparation for cleaning using Poka-Yoke principles. www.cavanna-usa.com
Precision Topping with Simplified Design
Axis Automation’s Apex Series Topper offers industry-leading consistency and precision with an easy-to-use design. It comes in five standard widths available with faster lead times. The innovation is designed to last through the challenges of today’s baking and snack industries through a flexible architecture that can be adapted to handle different topping applications quickly and inexpensively. www.axisautomation.com
Double Arm Mixer
Peerless has released its Pioneer Double Arm mixer, an expansion to its industry-leading small mixers. The newest entry into this class of dough and cream mixing is designed with bakers in mind, combining compact, stainless-steel construction with a direct-drive motor. It is engineered to take baking operations of all kinds to the next level. www.peerlessfood.com
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