New Processing Equipment: August 2022
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.
Company: Handtmann
Website: https://handtmann.us/
Equipment Snapshot: Handtmann has upgraded its basic divider to a servo-driven machine with as many as 24 rows across. The upgraded DS552 is heavy-duty, all-stainless steel and USDA-grade washdown, with attachments easy to slide off for changeover and cleaning purposes.
Company: AMF Bakery Systems
Website: https://amfbakery.com/
Equipment Snapshot: AMF Bakery Systems recently completed an extensive redesign of its Advanced Dough Dividers, now dubbed the Advanced Dough Dividers-Sanitary, or ADD-S. The 30-year-old line has been upgraded with stainless steel construction and no penetrations in the frames.
Company: Shaffer
Website: https://www.shaffermixers.com/
Equipment Snapshot: Shaffer manufactures dough pumps, chunkers, and conveyors that take the dough from a horizontal mixer to the divider or former. The traversing chunker can move between two mixers, receiving the dough from each mixer, portioning it into dough chunks and transporting the dough chunks using vertical and horizontal conveyors to the divider- or former-hopper.
Company: Unifiller
Website: www.unifiller.com
Equipment Snapshot: Unifiller has tested and rolled out a line of gluten-free dough depositors that use existing technology but with functional upgrades to handle various kinds of gluten-free batters. Other features that Unifiller has brought forth include a servo-controlled turntable station for the dough disk deposit, and a mode for adding a ring to pizza crusts.