Frozen in time, efficiently: IceCool
Formulating and perfecting the recipe is only the start to having great-tasting, crunchy or soft bakery products. The freezing process is essential to how their properties will be captured and preserved.
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Heinen: Frozen in time, efficiently
Formulating and perfecting the recipe is only the start to having great-tasting, crunchy or soft bakery products. The freezing process is essential to how their properties will be captured and preserved.
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.
Mecatherm: Tradition meets innovation(part II)
In industrial bagel manufacturing, the biggest challenge is fitting the production line in the available space while meeting individual recipe and process demands. Due to space constraints, certain modules can be considered optional, while others are highly recommended when customizing a line to specific requirements.
Mecatherm, ABI LTD: Cooperation with a future
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.
Two in one: Cooling and shock freezing
DEBAG’s blast freezer works in a temperature range from – 30 to + 5 °C and is suitable for cooling and freezing of products hot from the oven as well as raw and fully proofed dough pieces.
The Baguette Factory
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.
“It’s important to understand the African market”
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.
A marketplace of innovation: MECATHERM
The IBIE 2019, International Baking Industry Exposition, will take place in Las Vegas from 8 to 11 September. On an area of approximately 65,032 m2, more than 1,000 exhibitors will display products and services that pertain to the baking industry.
