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Olivier Sergent, President and CEO of the Mecatherm Group, discusses strategy with Baking and Biscuit International’s Dirk Dixon. Dixon: Since

MECATHERM handles projects around the world – particularly in Africa, where many of the population (in western, central, southern and some eastern areas of Africa) consume crusty bread such as baguettes. The market is mainly dominated by traditional production methods.

The Dimassaba Group opened a new bakery in Luanda, Angola’s capital city. The factory, which is called Dimapão, uses a Mecatherm industrial bread line.

Consultant Thomas Ismar of Zeppelin Systems GmbH says: “We haven’t re-invented bun production, but we have made it more efficient and more flexible at the same time.”

Mecatherm has developed a new dough divider, the M-NS, presented for the first time at the 2018 iba trade fair.

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.

Mecatherm will present an entirely newly designed oven at the iba trade fair.
Key advertised features include precision and flexibility.

The Ditsch GmbH pretzel bakery has invested in a new DymoMix system at its Oranienbaum site. Processing tolerance of the