New Processing Equipment: February 2022
Mixers serve essential functions for snack and bakery companies creating their own dough. We ask a lot of this category of heavy-duty equipment, including reliability and efficiency, to maintain established product quality-control standards.
Company: AMF Bakery Systems
Website: https://amfbakery.com/
Equipment Snapshot: AMF’s Dough Guardian system measures and tracks the energy generated by the motor once the product is in the mixer, which helps optimize parameters such as the length of the mix. AMF also has been furthering Dough Guardian’s development into a smart mixer by infusing the ability to analyze energy input on a continuous basis.
Company: Bakery Concepts International
Website: www.bakeryconcepts.net
Equipment Snapshot: Bakery Concepts has improved the scaling accuracy of the Rapidojet product, with a new calibration process for dry ingredients that uses a three-point system instead of two. It has also has been studying how Rapidojet tackles the problem of “bucky” dough that’s less well-hydrated toward the end of a run than it was at the beginning.
Company: Charles Ross & Son Company
Website: www.mixers.com
Equipment Snapshot: Charles Ross & Son Company has added an optional pressure feed vessel to its ROSS Ribbon Blenders. Instead of manually pouring liquids through an open blender cover or safety grating, customers can use a pressure feed vessel and spray bar, which facilitates liquid addition while the blender is closer, minimizing dusting and safety issues. After the blending cycle, the pressure feed vessel also can help with cleaning-in-place and washdown.
Company: Shaffer Manufacturing
Website: https://www.shaffermixers.com/
Equipment Snapshot: Shaffer Manufacturing, which is now a subsidiary of the French company LINXIS Group, hears from customers who want to automate and simplify their processes so they need fewer people. Ideally, they want high-pressure cleaning-in-place to ensure that allergens are properly cleaned as quickly as possible for gluten-free formulations. Customers also are looking to collect and share data to monitoring machinery processes, they would like mixers to come with high-efficiency motors that use less electricity, save money and are more environmentally friendly.
Company: Zeppelin Systems
Website: www.zeppelin.com
Equipment Snapshot: Zeppelin Systems has upgraded its CODOS continuous mixer into the new CODOS NT, which stands for New Technology and refers to the new model’s automated controls, more advanced cooling system, additional motors and greater efficiency. When combined with the company’s DymoMix prehydration system, CODOS then handles the final kneading and mixing; it’s no longer necessary as a blender except for certain products like tortillas that produce a lot of return dough that needs to be reincorporated into the mixer.