Snack food and wholesale bakery companies in the market for dough-handling equipment such as dividers, depositors, and rounders have been increasingly focused on machines that provide greater automation, along with the corollary efficiency and labor savings.
“We’re trying to take some of the variables out of the operator’s hands,” says Bruce Campbell, vice president, dough processing technologies at AMF Bakery Systems, Richmond, VA. Those include recipe formulas, scaling, and pan guides for its dividers, he says. “Everything self-adjusts.”