That’s the way the cookie doesn’t crumble: gentle handling
When handling crumbly cookies, biscuits and crackers, manufacturers can opt for one of two technologies or even combine them: pick-and-place technology or conveyor systems.
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Keeping a promise of quality
Wooden Bakery of Lebanon has maintained the product quality its customers are accustomed to, throughout several, sometimes overlapping challenges over the years. To cope with the latest struggles due to material availability, the use of flour and dough rheology technologies has helped the business manage flour quality.
interpack 2023 highlights: Ashworth
Ashworth brings the PosiDrive, its direct-drive solution for spiral systems to the fair, which can be used with new systems and as a retrofit for existing lotension spiral systems.
interpack 2023 highlights: Syntegon
Syntegon presents flexible systems for cookies and bars, an Innovative Intelligent Direct Handling system that offers format flexibility for cookies and crackers, a high-speed bar system for maximum efficiency with new wireless HMI, and sustainable packaging for cookies and bars made of paper and mono-material.
interpack 2023 highlights: American Pan
American Pan is highlighting its latest designs and coatings, including the ePAN designs for bread, bun, roll and cake products. Some ePAN designs have been proven to save up 8% on oven energy usage.
interpack 2023 highlights: Berndorf Band Group
Berndorf Band Group comes to interpack with its steel belts for the baking and food industry, which are designed for extreme mechanical and thermal stress, to support various processing steps, and to meet all hygiene requirements for food production.
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.
American Pan partners with Turbelco
American Pan and Turbelco announced a new partnership in the form of a new company called Turbelco, an American Pan Company. Turbelco has facilities in Turkey and Germany, which will continue to operate as before and will receive upgrades.
When the stakes are high: Forbo
With the ‘Siegling Fullsan’ product range, Forbo Movement Systems has launched new homogeneous conveyor and processing belts made of TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) particularly for hygiene-sensitive applications.
American Pan trays with a mission: cakes
To create the cake that will stand out, the tray is the limit. Having a clear idea of the cake ranges on the to-bake list, there are several considerations to help determine the choice of cake pans.
KEMPF trays with a mission: cakes
One product, infinite possibilities: cakes come in all shapes and sizes, with unique concepts to mark memorable events or casual experiences. To create the cake that will stand out, the tray is the limit.
A solid foundation
Energy efficiency may be just part of the equation when selecting a type of belt, but it is an increasingly important one given the dramatic rise in energy costs that the world is currently experiencing.
