New Processing Equipment: January 2021
Factors like the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the evolution of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) best practices, and the proliferation of different ingredient types to suit customer tastes and health concerns—including gluten-free production and handling known allergens—have led snack food and bakery facilities to place greater emphasis on cleaning and sanitation.
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Douglas Machines Corp.
Website: www.dougmac.com
Equipment Snapshot: Douglas Machines has developed a line of washing and sanitizing equipment with input from baking and snack food customers that reduces production changeover time for cleaning from hours to minutes. The company expects to unveil new energy-saving systems within the next six months.
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Goodway Technologies
Website: www.goodway.com
Equipment Snapshot: Goodway Technologies has two products that are popular with snack and bakery customers. Designed for confectionery, chocolate, granola and other bars, cookies, or crackers, the Fixed Brushless System cleans belts during the product line run—anywhere processors are doing a row of products and then a cooling tunnel right afterward.
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Company: Best Sanitizers
Website: www.bestsanitizers.com
Equipment Snapshot: Best Sanitizers, Penn Valley, CA, has rolled out the HACCP SmartStep2 Walk-Through Dual Footwear Sanitizing Unit, the latest in its family of foot-operated sanitizing units. Requiring zero electricity, the unit uses compressed air to deliver an atomized spray of the company’s Alpet D2 spray products to the bottom of footwear soles. With eight atomizing spray nozzles yet only 0.4 ounces of chemical needed, the product minimizes waste while improving moisture control.