American Pan Alexandria: a growing hub for pans and trays
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.
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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.
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.
Looking at the details is worthwhile
Rotary screen machines with stainless steel sieves ensure safety in the production process, as confirmed by several tests.
Increased flexibility and control
The Thomas L. Green brand of equipment from Reading Bakery Systems has been a partner to the biscuit, cookie and cracker industry for over 120 years.
AZO: Small quantity handling
With ManDos, AZO, the specialist in automated handling of raw materials, has developed an operator-controlled manual weighing centre for the provision of micro quantities.
Absolutely flat and warp-free
The experts at acs Coating Systems GmbH, Wilhelmshaven/Germany, have developed new coatings and trays.
Centralized pizza dough production
Staff in the American supply chain centers of Domino’s Pizza produce dough for franchise outlets, among others. This also guarantees the quality of the pizzas.
Precision, safety and security
Bakers weigh out their raw materials by the shovelful – that may have been true in earlier centuries, but nowadays surveillance authorities and raw materials prices both equally ensure that weighing, monitoring and subsequent analyses accompany the entire production process.
BRC Version 8 – what’s new?
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) published Version 8 of the Global Standard for Food Safety Issues in August 2018 – this version comes into force in February 2019.
Variable height drive rib
At the iba trade fair last September, Ashworth Bros. Inc. unveiled a new, patented solution for spiral conveyor systems called PosiDrive Spiral™.
Optimizing roll production
Kövy Bäckereimaschinenbau GmbH, Dortmund, presented an automatic peelboard stacker at the iba trade fair. The plant allows bread roll production to be optimized.
