Production
The American Markel Group combines its Tromp Group subsidiary in the Netherlands and the AMF subsidiary in den USA. Both supply industrial bakery lines for fresh and frozen baked products. We talked to Hans Herman Doude, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for AMF Bakery Systems Europe.
Sydney Cake House in Malaysia produces a wide variety of baked and frozen goods such as croissants, puffs, bread rolls and cakes. For these, the company focuses on products with Malaysian ingredients, together with western-style baked goods where it creates fusion style East meet West products.
“Integrated Bakery” develops, designs and deliver bakery solutions and is therefore quite different compared to other consultants. The Dutch company acts as a system integrator and is turnkey supplier of technical solutions with performance warranties.
The Dutch theme park Efteling is said to be the fourth largest of its kind in Europe. Sophisticated logistics behind the scenes ensure that visitors are provided with baked products for example.
The Danish manufacturer Varimixer A/S BÄR makes planetary machines with bowl volumes from 10 to 140 liters, allowing their use in a wide variety of company sizes.
The REGO HERLITZIUS PM Series of planetary, stirring and mixing machines gives users a machine portfolio with bowl sizes from 12 to 200 liters to make mixing and blending more precise, faster, more hygienic and more reproducible.
Zeppelin Systems GmbH and WP-Kemper bring two worlds together by combining DymoMix with a Kronos-Mixer. The winners are all those who mix doughs in batches.
WP Kemper has augmented its PANE dough sheeting plant. A new long molding module and a patented baguette station are now available for the plant.
Traide Fairs
The 22st Bakery China – International trade fair for bakeries and confectioners – takes place in Shanghai/China from May 6 to 9, 2019.
More than 2,500 exhibitors from some 40 countries and over 80,000 professional visitors from more than 140 nations are expected: TUTTOFOOD is the no-miss event in Milan, the capital of Italian lifestyle and one of the world’s gourmet capitals.
ProSweets – International supplier fair for the sweets and snacks industry – ran parallel with ISM in Cologne, Germany from January 27 through 30, 2019. With a 5% increase in visitors from 2018 to 2019, this year’s attendance set a record.
Raw materials
Since January 1, 2018, the German Industrial Bakeries Association has offered a monitoring program for oilseeds (Oilseed Monitoring, abbreviated OSM).
Interview
AIBI members will meet in England for the 36th Congress in Manchester from 30th May to 2nd June. Invitations were issued by AIBI President Joseph Street and General Secretary Susanne Döring. What else participants can expect in addition to top-class speakers, and how the Association will orient itself in the future, is explained by the two officers in an interview.
Germar Wacker heads the Swiss Bühler Group’s newly-created Consumer Foods segment. Together with Haas plants, the company offers machines all along the entire added value chain to baking and confectionery sector customers. The CEO explains more about the state of affairs in the interview.
Market
Europeans spent around 10.4% more on organic products in 2017, so the European organic market showed double-digit growth for the third year in succession.
5% of the products launched worldwide between July 2017 and June 2018 were vegan, and 11% were vegetarian.
Automation
Hard to clean, inaccurate and sensors that constantly failed to operate – a major bakery in the Netherlands struggled with these problems when transporting a dough bowl. The solution was to install a new bowl transport system.
König developed a multifunctional dough sheet punching station with row number flexibility that combines several work steps in a single module.
Bakers weigh out their raw materials by the shovelful – that may have been true in earlier centuries, but nowadays surveillance authorities and raw materials prices both equally ensure that weighing, monitoring and subsequent analyses accompany the entire production process.
Research
Around the world various initiatives have been and continue to be implemented to improve the overall healthiness of common foods. These interventions have led to ever increasing pressures on food manufacturers to play a major role in meeting defined nutritional objectives.
