Solutions

Sliced roll hinge improver

Repco’s Ultimate Hinge was developed to improve hinge integrity on all sliced rolls. The proprietary formula is incorporated into the baker’s recipe to achieve the best sliced roll on the market. Ultimate Hinge enhances softness and freshness as well as improves texture while keeping the structural integrity of the protein inside the bun. www.repcoworld.com/ultimate-hinge

Freshness solution for resilient soft breads

AB Mauri has released the Softase Platinum 2300, a premium freshness solution designed to help keep soft breads resilient to damage during transport and handling. Providing softness, texture and even sugar reduction, it helps ease the challenges of today’s bakers and provides cost-in-use savings. www.abmauri.com

Advanced bread makeup system

AMF Bakery Systems is elevating the industry standard with the ADD-S Bread Makeup System. The system delivers advanced, automated flexibility to handle a wide range of doughs including bread, pizza and specialty doughs. The user-friendly, recipe-driven servo technology offers adjustable, precision dividing for high-speed bread production. www.amfbakery.com

All-purpose feeder for bulk materials

Kubota Brabender’s FlexWallPlus is an all-purpose metering feeder with high-accuracy weighing. The loss-in-weight feeder is suitable for nearly every type of bulk material and works in every bulk material-processing industry globally. The hopper’s patented trapezoidal shape positions the bulk material at the optimum flow angle to feed the screw. www.brabenderti.com

Touchscreen-enabled thermal profiler

ECD introduced the market’s first traveling thermal profiler with operation via a capacitive touchscreen. M.O.L.E. EV6 offers a user-friendly, intuitive design engineered to save baking professionals time, simplify data viewing and analysis, and improve productivity. Thermal profiling as a routine practice helps bakers with consistent quality and high product yields. www.ecd.com

Labor-saving sanitation solutions

Goodway recognizes that commercial baking facilities need to be on top of best practices for cleaning and sanitation. The company released dry steam conveyor belt cleaning and specialty industrial vacuum solutions designed to deliver the best cleaning and sanitation results while reducing labor costs. www.goodway.com

Metal detectable gaskets

Great Western’s metal detectable gaskets for QA series sifters are integrated with stainless steel particles. With industry members continuing to look for innovative solutions to enhance and add protection to the product stream, metal detection of foreign materials can help prevent product contamination. www.gwmfg.com

Rotary blade for dough cutting

Handtmann’s rotary divider for pizza and bread doughs features a unique undercut function that reliably increases precision and adjusts cutting speeds for different dough densities. Technologies for bakery are consistent, from single-lane pizza dough ball lines and eight-lane depositing for pan breads to 24-lane filling on a high-speed lamination line. www.handtmann.us

Instant moisture measurement tool

MoistTech’s Food Grade Sanitary Valve Connection allows for the instant measurement of moisture through a pipeline by seamlessly installing within the existing pipe. This enhanced method of measurement provides users with a non-destructive technique for instant moisture control directly on the production line without lengthy lab tests. www.moisttech.com