Making the cut
Automated scoring systems consistently execute cuts, using conventional cutting, ultrasonic cutting, or waterjet technology.
Automated scoring systems consistently execute cuts, using conventional cutting, ultrasonic cutting, or waterjet technology.
American Pan’s facility in Alexandria, Romania, is the company’s main European operation headquarters for bakeware, with investments worth EUR 10 million planned over the next five years.
Notable examples we looked into include Koenig’s new generation of roll lines – the KGV Plus, and the latest addition, KGV EC that was just launched at iba.CONNECTING EXPERTS mid-March.
Replicating traditional methods of preparing buns, bagels and rolls on an industrial scale is a task with an extensive list of challenges, to achieve high-volume, consistent results. Flexibility and innovation joined in dedicated production lines help provide the answers for endless product variations.
Scoring is a process that requires skill and shows the baker’s experience when done manually. Alternatively, as labor is becoming harder to find (and then keep), robots can efficiently take over the task; they will never need to stop and will perform constantly over time.
The benefits of innovative, custom-made bakeware only begin with providing support for baked goods throughout manufacturing. Minute details in their make-up, design, coating and handling amount to a lot.
A characteristic all trays have in common, regardless of endless possibilities in their layouts, is the safety guarantee provided for the products baked, time and again.
Trays come in shapes and sizes as diverse as the products that they will help to make, while also considering the equipment and handling methods in each bakery
Cleaning can quite literally make or break the trays, respectively their life expectancy.
Even for industrial baking, all bakeware and coatings American Pan delivers are custom-made to perfectly fit the manufacturing needs of the bakery. The majority of baking pans are made of aluminized steel.
RONDO observes special donut shapes are increasingly in demand, and so is the flexibility to produce them all on one line, which also makes fast changeovers a necessity.
Mecatherm, French manufacturer of industrial ovens and production lines, has signed a partnership with American ABI Ltd, a specialist in bagel makeup equipment. Together they are planning to market an industrial bagel line. baking+biscuit international investigates further.