Today’s snack food and bakery manufacturers are focusing on a number of key design features including sanitary equipment design, modularity and smaller equipment footprints, which allow for quick product changeover and smarter controls/designs that also address food safety, says Sharon Nowak, business development manager, Coperion K-Tron USA, Sewell, NJ.
“Coperion’s and Coperion K-Tron’s extensive food product line has evolved to include a number of design features which address many of these concerns,” says Nowak. “A variety of system design options can easily integrate into a snack food system to prevent any ingress of foreign material into the product, or egress of powder out into the plant environment. For example, the Coperion K-Tron line of high accuracy feeders have been expanded to include integration with a glove box/bag dump station combination, and is used when adding such sensitive powders as probiotics or vitamins to a formulation, without contamination concerns.”