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Gluten-free made in Poland At its site in Poland, free-from specialist Ultrapharm creates gluten-free bakery products and © Ultrapharm
continuously adds to its high-quality product range. Since September 2019, the company has been doing so with the help of a new M-TA oven by MECATHERM.
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Gluten-free products are the result of sophisticated formulations, first and foremost, with more than 20 compounds on average, joining forces to turn into successful bakery wares taste-wise, texture-wise, and with the desired nutritional profiles. For the baking process itself, the challenge stems from being able to cover a wide range of different products in small volumes. The oven has to handle a wide range of products in a growing market while optimizing operating costs, a critical concern when dealing with frequent product changeovers.
needed. Alternatively, the M-TA helps optimize operating costs, in this case, thanks to its ability to quickly react to different products, with varying baking curves. It takes the M-TA 20 minutes to reach the temperature of 100°C, which it can also lose in 30 minutes when needed, as it is equipped with a fast cooling function.
For French specialist MECATHERM, this describes its latest oven, the M-TA, designed with versatility in mind: “This oven can achieve very specific, custom baking curves for all kinds of products. It does this thanks to its modular design as it’s built with independent, compact heating modules (of max. 25 sqm) - meaning that the baker is able to follow a very precise temperature curve with the same oven. Besides, another characteristic is truly unique to this oven: each of its independent heating modules can provide no fewer than six different heating modes: from the top side, it can use convection, radiant heat, and a combination of both; from the bottom, you can select between convection and radiant heat,” Marie Laisne, product manager Ovens, highlights. Fit for the job For the product range it needs to process, Ultrapharm selected radiant heat, convection, and a combination of both at the top and only convection below, for its M-TA oven. This setup supports a high degree of flexibility to bake a wide range of goods, as the company bakes products on trays and molds and the additional bottom-level heating sources were not
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