
Molecular and functional analytics: an integrated research
Combining functional and molecular flour analytics will establish a comprehensive picture of the grain, and help to achieve better baking results.
Combining functional and molecular flour analytics will establish a comprehensive picture of the grain, and help to achieve better baking results.
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 pace of change has only become faster over the past years, and its rippling effect is also felt in the baking industry. How do industrial players ride the changes while also increasing efficiency? The first change is in the mindset, and then in finding the right solutions. The key word is agility.
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 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, 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.
Minebea Intec, Hamburg, the German part of MinebeaMitsumi, a globally operating group (annual sales revenues EUR 7.3 billion), specializes in

