New Processing Equipment: February 2020
Customers of ingredient handling equipment are focused on a wide mix of factors to come up with their optimal formulation. These include accuracy, traceability, food safety, automation, cleanability, efficiency, flexibility, batch quality and fire safety, manufacturers say.
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Company: TOMRA
Website: www.tomra.com
Equipment Snapshot: TOMRA, which offers optical sorting equipment that allows snack and bakery manufacturers to look for glass or other foreign objects, has come out with a new system called BSI Plus, based on the acronym for biometric signature identification. This maps out a product to create a digital fingerprint and can differentiate between, for example, a nut and its shell that might be the same color.
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Company: OAL Group
Website: www.oalgroup.com
Equipment Snapshot: OAL Group has developed robotic ingredient handling and processing systems that can create blends on demand, and then process batches, or soups and sauces.
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Company: Great Western Manufacturing
Website: www.gwmfg.com
Equipment Snapshot: Great Western has rolled out the QA39 In-Line Tru-Balance Sifter, which hits the sweet spot for medium-sized bakeries in that it enables them to use a 4-inch line size with easier handling and inspection in a smaller footprint. The company also has come out with lifting clamps for its sifters that allow the operator to lift up the sieve frame without having to remove it.
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Company: VAC-U-MAX
Website: www.vac-u-max.com
Equipment Snapshot: VAC-U-MAX has been working on mobile conveyors and receivers mounted on column lifts for mixers at an elevated location on a mezzanine. That helps with both safety and ergonomics, since workers don’t have to carry boxes and bags up the stairs, and with maintenance because the equipment isn’t permanently located in the rafters and can be brought down to floor level for cleaning.
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Company: CAMCORP Inc.
Website: www.camcorpinc.com
Equipment Snapshot: CAMCORP Inc., Lenexa, KS, has developed a Post Blender Conditioner for use after a dry ingredient blending process during which the customer wants to keep blended ingredients moving, using four horizontal sweep arms that agitate full blended batches. The conditioner comes in different sizes, depending on typical blender batch sizes, and it includes side access doors to aid with cleaning and inspection.
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Company: SEPCO USA
Website: www.sepco-usa.com
Equipment Snapshot: SEPCO has augmented its SAS air seal by adding a stabilizer bushing to the bearing so the shaft will not move more than it should, which leads to premature bearing failure.