
GEA launches new high-speed bake extruder
The GEA Bake Extruder was developed for high-volume and high-speed applications, designed for medium to large-scale biscuit manufacturers.
The GEA Bake Extruder was developed for high-volume and high-speed applications, designed for medium to large-scale biscuit manufacturers.
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. For (pre-)baking the pies, AMF recommends a Den Boer Multibake tunnel oven with impingement heating or a direct-fired system.
Royal Smilde is known for its rich diversity of sweet and savory baked creations. Either sold under its own labels, through collaborations, or as private labels, the products made by the Dutch bakery are in growing demand worldwide. A very flexible production line helped them increase production volumes, built by AMF Bakery Systems (Tromp). Particular care was given to automating apple turnover production, namely – dough folding into a triangle.
Snacks are diverse and enticing additions to any eating occasion, whether they stand in for an entire meal, or are seen as a treat, a catering option for events, or a movie-night companion. Manufacturers stand to gain by keeping up the pace with innovations in this category. Extrusion provides particularly interesting opportunities.
Sweet or savory, pies are a perennial favorite among consumers. Highly specialized production lines are developed to ensure production meets quantity as well as quality needs, efficiently.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) designed a new 18-nozzle rotating die for increased throughput capacity. Depending on the size of the finished snack product, it increases throughput capacity by up to 33% on the same size production line.
Pizza and flatbreads. Naan and wraps. Pitas and handheld snacks. This is a generous and exciting product range, with ample space for new innovations. AMF Bakery Systems (AMF) designs complete systems that support all of them, with results matching artisan craft.
There are both automatic and manual solutions for cookie production.
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach/Riss, offers various processes.
The GEA Comas DV3 Multi-Depositor system allows simultaneous extrusion and deposition of two doughs and an additional medium-viscosity filling input.
At booth 7469, Aasted, Farum/Denmark, will present a wide range of process technologies ranging from dough forming to adding value to products with chocolate decorations or enrobing. The exhibits also include the new Aliceâ„¢ II, the next generation of extruder as well as the Aliceâ„¢ High-speed wire cutter, which is even more refined, faster and easier to use.
Bühler AG, Switzerland, has added the ContiMix™ dough extruder to expand its range of plants for industrial bakeries. T

