Metering and depositing – machines in the Dutch manufacturer BAKON’s BD series can also undertake these tasks. The BD3 Multi-Depositor is designed as a bench-top equipment for smaller bakery businesses, bigger machines such as the BD9 variant allow the metering and depositing process to be increasingly automated. All the variants are compact, simple to operate, easy to clean and mobile. The BD9 model meters mixes such as cake or muffin doughs, jams or fruit fillings, crèmes or cream cheese highly accurately. Equipped with a touchscreen, recipes and parameters such as working height, metering speed or cylinder type are easy to set and save. The machine, which can be used stand-alone or in a line, works at an operating pressure of 4 Bar and is capable of 60 strokes/minute (depending on product, volume and settings). 

Metering cylinders for 10 – 100, 36 – 180, 110 – 475 and 220 – 1,100 ml are compatible. 

For the iba 2018 trade fair, the company also developed a robot arm that automatically feeds trays to the depositor, removes the loaded trays again and places them in a defined position – e.g. in a rack trolley.