Royal Kaak: Baking freestanding bread
The technology to support efficient, automated production of high-end, quality bread is here. The key is gentle dough handling.
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AMF brings sustainability innovation to iba ’23
AMF Bakery Systems showcases solutions that support sustainable baking, including oven technology and smart services. New developments for bread lines, pizza systems and soft bread and bun production will also be presented.
Pie production: AMF Tromp line
The automated line designed by AMF Tromp can flexibly support a wide range of pies, either savory or sweet, in a baking tray, in foils, or in paper cups. They can bake the pie shells only, pies with the top opened or closed and pies with or without a lattice decoration.
ECD commercializes touchscreen-enabled thermal profiler
ECD’s M.O.L.E.™ EV6 touchscreen thermal profiler is now commercially available, with shipments starting April 1. The interface is said to have a user-friendly, intuitive design engineered to save baking professionals time, simplify data viewing and analysis, and improve productivity.
New Digital Air Velocity Sensor Array from Reading Thermal
Reading Thermal released a new SCORPION® 2 Digital Air Velocity Sensor Array that offers improved accuracy, expanded temperature performance and extended battery life.
FRITSCH opens first World of Bakery in Canada
In April 2022, MULTIVAC Canada opened the first local FRITSCH World of Bakery in Brampton, Ontario. The technology and test center took one year to build and is dedicated to customers from the North and South American markets.
A delicate balance: perfecting work with gluten-free ingredients
As gluten-free bakery is decisively increasing its foothold into the mainstream market, growing by about 25% each year, research seeks to improve product taste, texture and nutritional profiles.
The right robot for the job
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.
Knowledge pays off at the RTC
The Rademaker Technology Center (RTC) features several pilot lines, full-scale, certified production lines that meet the latest standards, which are available for testing. The company believes knowledge is an investment worth making, and invest it did: over the past two years, the RTC has been developed to more than twice its starting size, to its current 2,400sqm.
Factors that make a mixing difference
Spiral mixer or wendel mixer? The decision as to which kneading system a company invests in is dependent on many influencing factors. The application engineers at Diosna allowed us to look over their shoulders during a series of tests and to document the results.
The French touch for dividing
Mecatherm has developed a new dough divider, the M-NS, presented for the first time at the 2018 iba trade fair.
Automation and digitalization – who will be the technology leader?
As might have been expected, machine and plant controller automation and digitalization were one of the major topics at the iba trade fair.
