New Processing Equipment: May 2021
Ingredient handling equipment runs the gamut from storage and transport, to metering, dispensing, and automation addition. Snack food and bakery customers of this equipment are particularly interested in features and benefits like automation, food safety, flexibility, adaptability, quick changeover, ease of maintenance and cleaning, explosion protection, lot tracking, and inventory control.
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Company: Azo
Website: www.azo.com/en-de
AZO Food and Bachelor Controls have developed a piece of weighing equipment that represents an interim step between human operated and fully automated. People still refill the hopper and weigh ingredients out into a container, but the machine picks up measurements electronically rather than someone writing them down on a clipboard, thereby removing the potential for human error.
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Company: Heat and Control
Website: www.heatandcontrol.com
Heat and Control offers the Uni-Spense line of powder feeders and scarf plate distributors that apply dry powders to base product inside a coating drum or over a belt. Each is customized and draws from among a variety of agitation methods, augers, and refill devices to handle products that use salt, sugar, or other seasonings.
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Company: CAMCORP
Website: www.camcorpinc.com
CAMCORP Inc., Lenexa, KS, has provided ingredient handling systems from the front end through silos and sifting. On the tortilla side, the company did a project with a chip manufacturer that wanted to expand from a three-inch to a four-inch line, and add to the existing silo as well as add controls. CAMCORP also has provided sugar handling systems for cereals and other products and vacuum conveying from extruders to sifting and packaging.