J4, Tunnel Oven Manufacturer

J4 – 25 Years in the Market

The firm J4 has been in the bakery technologies market for 25 years and will celebrate this anniversary in April 2019.

During those years the company based in East Bohemia has turned out more than 700 industrial tunnel ovens and has grown into an important actor in the world markets in its line of business. Last year alone, for example, it manufactured 28 baking conveyer ovens, which were fitted into its partners´ assembly lines, or the company used them in its own systems. The company´s beginnings were built on the consumption of domestic products, such as

bread, buns and rolls, supplied in large quantities, which gave rise to the industrial baking tradition and the use of tunnel ovens in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, which made it possible for J4 to enter further markets, at first in the East and later also in the West, and now practically worldwide.

Currently, J4, with the industrial use of its tunnel ovens turning out an indeed wide range of products, from Central European traditional items, such as brown and white bread, to baguettes, pastries, cake corpus, croissants and muffins, to pizza, Arabic bread, biscuits, crackers, and sticks.

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This year, J4 has manufactured 28 ovens for semi- or fully automated lines installed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Jordan, the Netherlands and even some remote countries, such as Brazil and South Korea.

Naturally, such wide-ranging production cannot do without painstaking development, advanced technical equipment and skilled workers. The optimum number for our firm is about one hundred employees. Regrettably we must say that J4, like other technologically and technically oriented firms, is facing a shortage of technically skilled people, which we are temporarily solving by employing foreign workers. To eliminate this shortage in the near future, we are planning to build a new manufacturing hall to be completed in 2020, which will be fitted with a new type of fully automated tunnel ovens that will be able to independently react to production needs.

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