A world leader in manufacturing process equipment for the cookie industry, APV Baker offers a wide prod-uct line, including wirecuts, moulders, frozen-dough machines, bar extruders, ovens and sandwiching machines. All are built to withstand the rigors of round-the-clock operation.

Our Wirecut machines deliver the accuracy, speed and sanitation that have made them the undisputed market leaders, and the EM390 Rotary Moulder offers affordability with a number of standard features that you’d expect to drive up the cost. At the forefront of bar technology, our Dualtex and bar extruders offer performance you won’t find with other models, and our Frozen Dough Machine is second to none in accuracy and sanitation. The Jetcirc convection oven and 700 Series DGF oven set the standard with never-before baking speeds and uniform heating. Completing the range, our sandwiching machines offer unmatched versatility and output.

From fast-track OEM replacement parts to a full-scale service program, APV Baker is there for you. Whether you need technical assistance 24 hours a day or routine maintenance, our service team can save you thousands in headaches and downtime. Our optimization program offers advanced software and automation systems to ensure continuous high performance. Comprehensive data collection can give constant feedback on performance, eliminating unplanned downtime. To get the most from your wirecut equipment, we offer value-conscious rebuilds and efficiency-enhancing upgrades to your current equipment. Whether you need a complete baking system, a unit machine, or help in boosting performance on your current equipment, APV Baker can help you reach your goals with state-of-the-art solutions.

With its corporate headquarters currently located in Winchester, Va., Ashworth has been a major supplier of conveyor belts to the bakery and snack food industries since 1946.

In 1967, Ashworth revolutionized the food-processing industry with the development of its patented lotension spiral system. Today, the company maintains manufacturing facilities in the United States and the Netherlands, and offers the most comprehensive range of spiral belting available on the market. Ashworth’s line also includes its world-famous CB5 baking band, long known for its true tracking and even heat transfers.

Most recently, Ashworth introduced the Advantage 200, the latest addition to its line of hybrid belts, designed for lotension spiral and turn-curve applications. The Advantage series offers the benefits of plastic with the strength of steel, incorporating innovative design features that afford the largest open area of any belt on the market. This feature facilitates airflow, which improves product quality while offering dramatic improvements in cleanability and sanitation over competitive product offerings. Further, the steel-rod backbone endows the Advantage line with superior beam strength, enabling it to carry far greater loads than any other plastic belt on the market.

Ashworth recently announced its no-hassle, 5 Year No-Risk Warranty, applicable to all Advantage belts. The warranty is the best in the business and allows for repair, replacement or refund of all belts installed in approved applications, and even guards against the possibility of black speck contamination.

In addition to its history of innovative product development, Ashworth is also an established industry leader when it comes to service. The company’s customers benefit from 24/7 customer service assistance. In addition, Ashworth recently implemented initiatives within its manufacturing facilities to speed delivery of new and replacement belts, cutting standard lead times to delivery by approximately one-third. Ashworth offers the services of its Engineering Services Group, from which a full range of assistance is available, including complete spiral system refurbishment, trouble-shooting, repair and restorative services. All are available on a 24/7 basis.

Founded in 1928 by certified Master Baker Oscar Breault, Brolite developed a production process to supply the baking industry with cultured, butter and sour flavors. With its dedication to customer service and cutting-edge technology, Brolite has become a leading supplier of sours and fermented flavors to bakeries throughout the world.

In addition to sours and fermented flavors, Brolite produces bread and sweet-goods bases and mixes, dough conditioners and grain blends at its modern manufacturing facility in Streamwood, Ill. Brolite also offers contract blending services as well as exclusive and custom blends.

For more than 75 years, Brolite has been responding to bakers’ needs with innovative products and services. Through our extensive research and development we have produced more than 50 specialty ingredients of unsurpassed quality and superior flavor — everything from conditioners and natural rye sours to bread and sweet-dough bases.

The Burford Corp. is one of the leading suppliers for the baking industry. Burford has recently introduced new technologies to improve the baking process and save the baker time and money. Recent innovations include the Servo Twist-Tyer, Tamper Evident Closure System, Smart-Seeder and Vertical Tyer.

If you are a baker and interested in CUTTING CLOSURE COSTS in half, then the Servo Tyer is the solution. Using the inexpensive twist-tie and an innovative Servo Motor design, you will substantially reduce your costs, improve the tightness of your closure (increasing shelf life of your baked goods), guarantee the quality of the closure, and offer the consumer a closure they prefer over other closure products. Call Don or Kurt today to see how Burford can help you.

Many of the consumer products being offered today come with a seal for protection, and it’s time to offer that technology for bread. Today, Burford makes that a reality with the Burford Tamper Evident Closure System. New updates to the technology include a Bag Tail Flattener and Soft Seal. Call Burford today to see how you can add Tamper Evidence to your baked goods.

How much seed do you use in a year? How much does seed cost you? Do you see seed today in the production lines on the floor? On the pans and not product?

How would you like to reduce your seed usage by 20-40% and more accurately place seed on your baked products? Don’t delay and start saving seed today! Call Teresa and ask her how we can save you billions of seed each year.

We now offer the Servo Tyer technology in a Vertical Tyer. This allows customers to twist-tie products such as Pannetone Bread, Tortillas, Paper Plates, and any product that requires twist-tying while standing up on a conveyor. In addition to the great products mentioned above, Burford Corp. also offers the baker solutions for the following applications:  Waffle Iron Oilers, Bread Pan Oilers, Sifters, Water Splitters, Pan Shakers, Thermal Printers, and Pan Coolers.

Burford has a strong, experienced team of engineers and designers ready to solve your bakery or packaging problems today. If you are in need of a solution, please call Kurt or Don today and see how Burford can help.

Founded in the Netherlands by the Capelleveen family some 80 years ago, Capway Systems continues to meet the ever-growing needs of the baking industry. Capway has a record of expertise and longevity that few companies can match. Although the United States manufacturing plant is only 19 years old, its staff has hundreds of years of experience in the design and manufacturing of automated equipment required for today’s high-capacity bakeries.

Both the U.S. and European plants set up and test-run all new equipment prior to shipment. This allows customers to see and operate their newly purchased equipment before it ever arrives at their facility.

Capway’s Robocap pan storage and retrieval systems have been installed in more than 60 bakeries in Europe and six high-speed units in North America. With the introduction of the new Type 1 robot, Capway can offer pan storage solutions to the small baker as well as the large wholesale plant.

“The Robocap systems are radically different from the conventional systems,” a Capway spokesman explains. It is considerably more gentle on the pans, and it uses space more efficiently than conventional systems. As with its other equipment, Capway’s Robocap must be integrated within the whole production line. Capway engineers provide complete plant-design services and integrate everything from makeup through packaging.

Caravan Products Co., Inc., has provided cutting-edge technology to wholesale and retail bakers for more than 100 years. Its expertise is now focused on providing delicious new bread products with the whole grains that health-conscious consumers demand.

In addition to its full line of fine-grain bread mixes and bases, Caravan introduces a VitoGrain line designed for consumers who like the taste and look of white bread, but want the good-carb qualities of whole-wheat products.

VitoGrain products are made with a unique, newly developed, 100%-white, whole-wheat specialty flour that has been reduced to a uniformly fine particle size. Texture is smoother, and the bread tastes just like white bread.

VitoGrain can be used in pan breads, rolls, flatbreads and bagels. No refined flours are used in VitoGrain products, and products made with VitoGrain contain no trans fat. Its line of products includes VitoGrain Whole Wheat mix, VitoGrain Cracked Wheat mix, VitoGrain 7-Grain mix, VitoGrain Cracked Wheat base and VitoGrain Half ’N Half Whole Wheat base.

Caravan continues to supply traditional, state-of-the-art, white-bread products with all the desirable qualities bakers need, including flavor and freshness that last throughout the products’ extended shelf life, reduced mixing time, maximum oven spring without bromates, greater volumes, crust color, dough strength and machinability.

New systems from Caravan bring sponge, dough and brews into the non-bromate age. Products such as Sponge Mate-8, DoughSide-8 and Pan Bread 1 eliminate scaling errors, improve crumb and grain and increase volume with no processing changes. Superb white bread products include ESL-1, which provides maximum extended shelf life.

Caravan’s products are available for bulk tote bags for efficiency and consistency in micro-ingredient delivery systems. All of Caravan’s products are supported by the company’s knowledgeable technical staff, which still makes house calls.

Cereal Ingredients is a privately held, employee-owned, specialty-ingredients manufacturer that was established in 1990 by Robert Hatch to research, develop and market unique new food ingredients. Since the establishment of the company, eight ingredient and process patents have been issued, and three additional patent applications have been filed.

After 14 years in Kansas City, the company has just completed a new headquarters in Leavenworth, Kan., that also will house R&D, administrative and sales staff. Hatch says, "The new facility will double our productive capacity and allow us to respond to our customers’ needs more quickly and efficiently."

The company produces food particulates that add flavor, texture and color to baked goods and ready-to-eat (RTE) cereals, as well as pre-blended mixes to create added flavor and swirl effects in bread products.  Called Flav-R-Bites, the particles are specially formulated for specific client needs, are offered in a variety of sizes, flavors and textures, and are produced using CII’s patented product-and-process technology. Additional food applications include nutritional foods, streusel, and other crunches and toppings.

CII’s newest product line, Nutri-Bites, consists of particles with special nutritional qualities such as extra levels of protein, vitamins or minerals.  Most Nutri-Bites are used in high nutrition food bars.

According to executive vice president Jim Thomasson, “Unlike most fat-based or sugar-based particles, our Flav-R-Bites and Nutri-Bites stand up to heat, moisture and even extended exposure to the hot-moist processing environments particularly common to the baking industry.”

Most products are sold with non-trans fat formulations and international products are sold non-GMO.  The products are all certified for food purity with the majority certified Kosher/Parve and the balance certified Kosher/Dairy or produced under the Islamic certification, Halal.  Additionally, CII has received an “Excellent” certification in the NFPA Supplier Audit for the baking industry and a “Superior” rating from AIB for the fourth consecutive year.

For more than 150 years, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., makers of ARM & HAMMER products, has been a pioneer in the science of chemical leavening. As the leading U.S. supplier of sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate for food formulations, the company offers a unique range of bicarbonate granulations to help food manufacturers produce more favorable characteristics in finished baked products through innovative leavening systems.

• Sodium bicarbonate grade 1 (powdered), grade 1 TFF (treated free-flowing), grade 2 (fine granular), grade 4 (granular), as well as custom grades and granulations to meet customers’ requirements.

• Ammonium bicarbonate in a clear polyethylene bag that improves product flowability by providing a better barrier to moisture.

• Flow-K, a food grade potassium bicarbonate with a unique flow aid system that assures excellent storage and handling properties.

• Tortilla Blend, a unique blend of special sodium bicarbonate granulations that can result in substantial improvements in the appearance, texture, and flavor of tortillas through better control of leavening.

Tortilla Blend is the most recent leavening innovation from Church & Dwight, and it has been extremely well received by the marketplace. Used in combination with conventional or innovative leavening acids, Tortilla Blend helps optimize the leavening process in three critical stages:

• Stage 2: More sodium bicarbonate is solubilized later within the dough prior to the press and oven, producing more gas cells that join existing cells.

• Stage 3: In the oven, complete solubility of the sodium bicarbonate occurs and all gas cells expand for optimally leavened tortillas.

This is in contrast to traditional practices, in which tortillas are leavened using conventional baking powder, a premixed combination of sodium bicarbonate and acid salts that allows only limited control of leavening.  

Better control of the leavening process can result in tortillas with rich, brown toast points for better flavor and aroma, uniform, open cell structure for greater height and volume, and reduced translucency and improved texture. Results may vary depending upon tortilla formulation and processing conditions.

Hinds-Bock Corp. is dedicated to meeting the needs of the baking industry with high-quality piston depositing equipment, pumps, icers/glazers and cake slicers. The company’s equipment ranges from small, tabletop muffin depositing to high-volume industrial lines, which include tray and paper cup denesters, pan oilers, large intermediate hoppers, dry-ingredient depositors for toppings, servo-driven conveyors and PLC controls.

Hinds-Bock’s engineering staff designs custom equipment, using the latest CAD, 3-D modeling systems to meet specific customer needs.

In addition to piston depositors, Hinds-Bock manufactures servo-driven pump fillers for high-speed depositing and spreading of product. The company also manufactures servo-piston depositors for automatic depositing and spreading of icings, fruits, batters and sauces.

Hinds-Bock manufactures standardized and custom piston filling and depositing machines and systems as well as piston transfer pumps. This equipment ranges from single-piston fillers and simple air-powered transfer pumps to turnkey, custom multi-lane, conveyorized, computer-controlled, high-speed production systems. Many options are available, including heated or cooled machines, hopper agitation, diving, traveling or orbital spout movement and pressure-fed machines for extremely viscous products.

In-house technicians and engineers provide on-site installation and turnkey startup support for custom-designed equipment and systems, maintain complete documentation on every machine built and support those machines with a thoroughly stocked parts department.

The company’s test facility runs customer-provided samples of product to evaluate filling characteristics and determine agitation and spout requirements. Tests are typically videotaped so that customers can observe deposit configurations. Frozen samples of deposited materials can also be returned to the customer.

Headquartered near Seattle, Hinds-Bock provides fillers, depositors, transfer pumps and icers for food and bakery applications, as well as further automation including conveyors, denesters, heat-sealers, lidders, etc.

Key-Pak Machines is an extension of the specialized packaging equipment manufactured by Research & Development Packaging Corp., a design and manufacturing company with more than 30 years of experience in the packaging industry.

Key-Pak specializes in vertical form/fill/seal machines and has expanded its machinery portfolio consistently over the years by adding combinational net-weigh scales, cup indexing systems, piston liquid fillers and conveyors.

Innovation through design simplicity is the core principle behind all of the machines in the Key-Pak line. A minimum of moving parts, easy access, user-friendly operation and durability are all hallmarks of the company’s design approach. Key-Pak systems can handle everything including chips, snacks, cheese and more, and the company’s packaging systems can be found worldwide, tackling the most demanding applications the industry has to offer.

Donald E. Schiltz, president and CEO, founded KOFAB in 1977 with a definite purpose in mind: to develop a company built on quality workmanship. During the past 20 years, quality has proven to be the backbone of the company and has been achieved by top-quality employees who have helped set Kofab apart from its competition. The company has experienced ongoing growth each year because of satisfied customers throughout the nation.

Kofab’s main focus is manufacturing food-processing and material-handling equipment along with new product development, such as its KOFAB stainless-steel belt pulley. The pulley has brought in outstanding sales growth throughout the past 10 years, and represents a large share of total sales.

During the past two years, Kofab has developed a new product for the market called the CURVEYOR. The powered belt turn conveyor is used primarily in bakeries and meat-processing plants and is proving to be a very promising addition to Kofab’s line of equipment.

As Kofab moves into its next 20 years in the business, the company looks to the future with excitement, providing on-track solutions for its customers while maintaining its focus on quality as a key to success.

MGP Ingredients, Inc., is a premier producer of highly functional specialty proteins and starches for use in a wide array of food applications. To help its customers deliver great-tasting fiber-enhanced products, the company recently developed its Fibersym line of ingredient solutions.

Ideal for lower-net carb products, Fibersym is a family of highly functional resistant starches that contains total dietary fiber amounts ranging from 70% to 80%. Derived from wheat and potatoes, these unique ingredients possess a neutral flavor, white color and smooth texture.

In addition, MGPI offers its Arise line of wheat protein isolates to improve the overall quality of bakery products, including high-protein, reduced-carb breads, muffins, tortillas, cereals, snack foods and more.

Vegetarian meat analog products benefit from the company’s Wheatex textured wheat protein. Wheatex possesses a number of clear-cut advantages over competitive products, including greater textural integrity and a neutral flavor profile. As a result, customers can create better-tasting, more satisfying products.

The company’s Pregel and Midsol lines of modified starches are greatly valued for their functionality and versatility. Pregel 46, a pre-gelatinized wheat starch, can be used in applications for products such as baked goods. MGPI’s Midsol 46 cook-up wheat starch also is useful in a variety of bakery foods and prepared foods.

O/K International Corp. is a marketing and manufacturing company founded in 1982, specialized in selling and servicing packaging equipment. O/K’s continuous growth throughout the years has been accomplished by integrating the creativity of European design with the tough demands of the United States market, resulting in innovative, durable machines.

The company’s primary machines for the baking and snack industries are the T-PAK 750, 550 Sealing Systems and Case Erector and Superformer. The 550 features a compression belt and automatic infeed, used primarily for the tortilla industry. The 750 is a sealer on an angled conveyor, used for the production of bread, chips and rolls. The Case Erector is unique and erects RSC cases, folds the bottom plates and closes them with tape. Video of the machines can be found on the company’s Web site. Other equipment includes case erectors, case liners, bag sealers, case sealers, conveyors, pick & place machines, uncuffers and more.

O/K’s equipment is end-of-line equipment, meaning that it is the most labor-saving, efficient and cost-effective way available on the market to solve packaging needs. Over the years, the company has acquired the experience necessary to cut costs and create company-friendly solutions for its customers.

O/K’s application knowledge and multilingual abilities allow it to service the needs of customers in different countries and cultures. The company’s diverse engineering team in Europe and the U.S. also enables it to manufacture throughout the world.

Pennant Foods is a leading provider of specialty bakery products and solutions to the retail and foodservice industries. The company manufactures and distributes puff pastry, frozen dough, sweet dough, cookies, croissants, cinnamon rolls, muffins, Danish and bakery ingredients under the Pennant, La Française and Sweet Bites brands. Pennant Foods is a division of Chef Solutions Inc., a wholly owned entity of Questor Partners Funds, a subsidiary of Questor Management Company, LLC.

Pennant Foods has more than 60 years of expertise and knowledge within the baking industry, providing a complete line of quality bakery products, from ingredients to thaw-and-serve baked goods. The company also offers a complete line of baking ingredients including bakery mixes, fillings, icings and glazes. Pennant provides bakery expertise and business solutions to a wide variety of segments, including retail in-store bakeries, independent and commercial bakers and foodservice operators. With a strong heritage of quality products and industry expertise, Pennant Foods understands what is needed for bakery success. Contact Pennant at 1-800-877-1157, or visit our Web site, www.chefsolutions.com, for more information.

The Rademaker Group focuses on the development, sales, engineering and production of installations for a variety of food-processing industries. Our reputation has been built primarily around complete installations for the baking industry, as well as the snack, meat processing and pet food industries. The members of the group complement each other to offer a complete delivery program.

Rademaker BV is renowned for product lines such as laminators, bread lines, universal lines, croissant lines, cake lines, pie lines and special lines such as chips, dumpling and sandwich lines. These are robust, high-capacity machines designed specifically for the production needs of our customers.

The Rademaker Multibake ovens  are second to none. Our modular design provides for fast installations, future flexibility for expansion and the ability to configure hybrid systems. Whether the product requires the power and control of our Impingement Oven, direct- or indirect-heated environments, Rademaker has the right baking system in its program.

To complete the program, Rademaker Handling can connect the process applications in one engineered system. Proofing, cooling, tray storage and handling, accumulating, de-panning, connecting conveyors and the control needed to provide a fully automated process can be streamlined to meet your needs.

One Source — providing the advantages of technical and technological solutions, via professional project management during the entire process.

Reiser equipment can be found in plants worldwide, performing a variety of applications in a various food industries, including bakery.

The company’s full product line is vast and includes buckets, drums, tanks, tubs, choppers, bowls, co-extrusion systems, loaders, lifters, dumpers, packaging machines, particle reduction equipment, replacement parts, tumbler/massager tray sealing, and vacuum and form/fill/seal packaging equipment, as well as machines used for stuffing, portioning, grinding, injecting, extruding, slicing and more.

Equipment can be used as standalone machines or as part of a complete system. Each machine’s versatile design allows any piece of equipment to easily adapt to any size operation.

With tens of thousands of ovens around the globe in more than 120 countries, the Revent name has become synonymous with innovative baking technology. On the outside, most rack ovens are shiny, stainless-steel boxes. But, exactly as with people, it’s what is inside that counts. Revent’s varied oven designs will add to your company’s profit!

In the beginning, Revent was principally involved in manufacturing boilers and small convection ovens for industrial purposes. The company developed a convection oven capable of molding plastic sheets for company signs, and an idea for innovative baking began to take shape.

The use of that convection oven gave rise to the concept of using convection ovens to bake entire racks of product at once. In 1958, Revent began designing the world’s first “rack oven.” From that point on, industrial baking was forever changed for the better.

Until that time, with the exception of tunnel ovens, baking trays were handled individually and baked in deck ovens. Revent’s new “rack oven” invention allowed bakers to roll their baking racks directly into the oven, baking an entire rack at one time. This much-needed change revolutionized the baking process for bakers, reduced handling times considerably.

Today, Revent’s convection rack oven is the most popular bakery oven sold to customers all over the world. Revent is dedicated to the continued development and innovation of rack oven technology that it pioneered.

In addition, Revent also manufactures and develops technology in tunnel ovens, mini convection ovens, deck ovens and proofing rooms.

Since its formation in 1988, Safeline has become the largest metal-detection manufacturer in the world, with operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. The company’s design and manufacturing experience supports a worldwide distribution network to counsel customers on minimizing the risk of metal contamination.

Safeline metal detectors are reliable and effective in eliminating all types of metal contamination from foods destined for the global marketplace. Safeline’s detectors offer advanced microproccesor-based technology, and by incorporating digital-signal processing, the company delivers unique customer advantages, including automatic setup that adjusts to optimum performance by passing sample products down the line, automatic balance control that maintains the highest sensitivity levels despite temperature fluctutations, electronic aging and product build-up, optimum detection standards achieved through Safeline’s unique domed detector that delivers exceptional coil system rigidity, minimized false rejects obtained by the rigid coil system, which virtually eliminates vibration interference, maximized durability that exceeds NEMA 4X and x1P66 standards, and self-diagnostic circuits that monitor the detector’s performance.

Safeline’s X-ray Inspection Systems combine high-resolution, low-energy X-ray technology with innovative hardware and high-performance image processing software. The X-ray systems can be configured to inspect for product count, product mass, container fill level, broken or damaged product or packaging, presence of package inserts, contaminants (including metal, stone, glass, bone and certain plastics) and product attributes (to ensure optimum quality). Safeline’s X-ray systems are superior because of their high-performance image processing software, innovative system hardware, and soft X-ray technology that operates at a reduced power level in order to achieve crystal-clear contrast.

In addition to manufacturing the industry’s leading metal detectors, Safeline offers a variety of mechanical handling and auto-reject devices designed to enhance detection among all types of products, including packaged, bulk, frozen and sticky items. Features included on Safeline conveyors include heavy-gauge polished stainless-steel tubing, TIG welding with no bolted assembly and eddy current loop isolation to prevent static buildup and false rejects, which ensures rapid startup and commissioning.

Safeline is sensitive to customer needs and provides services including expert installation, 24-hour support, on-site equipment training and field audits.

Signature Brands offers more than 50 years of experience in high-quality dessert decorations for the food industry, and has earned a reputation as the No. 1 supplier of high-quality dessert decorations.

At Signature Brands, quality is vital. The company continually receives a “Superior” rating from the American Institute of Baking (AIB), and encourages its business partners to perform quality audits of its plant. Signature Brands’ commitment to quality is coupled with superior customer service, industry expertise, customized processes for each customer and competitive pricing, all of which build long-lasting relationships with its customers.

The company’s products are numerous, with many showcased on its Web site. In addition, Signature Brands specializes in custom colors and blends, and has a talented product-development team in place to help customers work with other sugar-based products.

Signature Brands’ wet pouching capabilities provide the opportunity to pouch icing, gel, syrup, chocolate compounds and other sugar-based products.

T&T Consulting and Engineering, Inc., offers a complete consulting, engineering, fabrication and turnkey installation service to the baking industry. The company’s engineering and managerial associates have more than 50 years of combined expertise in the baking industry, and its facilities are located in Franklin Park, Ill., and Toronto, Ont., Canada.

T&T can do custom design engineering in addition to automating and streamlining existing production facilities in order to raise efficiency, output and reduce labor costs.

In particular, T&T’s turnkey design and installation processes for the baking industry have included complete bagel producing plants (full- or semi-automated), complete cookie production and baking lines, automated pita bread production facilities, various semi- and fully-automated roll lines, all new tunnel baking ovens (direct- or indirect-fired), complete tortilla producing lines, building all new or rebuilding and installing used conveyors and conveyor systems, building new oven loaders and unloaders, new dough lifters and hoisters, new dough chunkers and feeders, all types of seeders from wet onion to sesame, poppy, flour and corn meal dusters, building new bagel machines for wholesale- or retail-sized bakeries and pan and board brush and vacuum conveyor systems.

In addition, T&T provides a one-stop shopping for the baking industry in retrofitting, upgrading and automating existing operations and facilities, and also specializes in relocating, rebuilding tunnel ovens, tray-traveling ovens, flour silo systems, proofers and conveyor systems.

With T&T, customers eliminate the confusion and misunderstandings that can come with working with many different vendors, installers and contractors that could result in cost overruns and startup delays.

Tonelli Group is a first-rate choice for bakery and confectionery manufacturers around the world, and its mixers were displayed at INTERPAK in Dusseldorf, Germany, from April 20-27.

Tonelli mixers are ideal for the production of cakes, muffins, cookies and a wide range of other baked products. Its largest mixer, a 1,300-liter, 2,000-lb. capacity planetary mixer has three mixing tools and a continuous scrapper. Production rates for the planetary mixers — known for their long-lasting qualities — range from 500 lbs. to 30,000 lbs. per hour.

The company also highlighted its advancements in continuous mixing technology, including a variety of agitators for its planetary mixers that are quick and easy to change. The mixers use one, two or three mixing tools along with the scrapper in order to provide quality mixing in a shorter amount of time. A new, one-button, programmable, clean-in-place system offers a high standard of sanitation for all of Tonelli’s mixers.

Tonelli’s computerized management system provides complete automation to the mixing process and can store more than 50 recipes with relative process parameters such as time, speed, air pressure and stages for adding ingredients. The Tonelli-designed software includes a sophisticated Allen Bradley PLC with color touch-panel screen that offers user-friendly graphic interfaces and icons.

The company developed an automated mixing system that utilizes robotics for transporting bowls throughout a bakery plant. The bowls travel on fork trucks that follow a laser-guided track, and the system does not require an operator to move bowls from ingredient batching to the mixer to the bowl hoist and through cleaning systems.

Tonelli exhibited a Mix/Cook/Chill system that allows for automation and precise process control for specialty bakery and products that require heating or cooling. A hermetic seal can be created in the mixing environment and can work in a pressurized atmosphere or under vacuum. Steam or water can be circulated in a double-walled bowl and inert gases such as liquid N2 can be injected to promote rapid cooling.

Tonelli is headquartered in Parma, Italy, with factory sales offices throughout the United States. Its mixers and snack-cake production lines are versatile, dependable and trusted worldwide.

Unifiller Systems, Inc., is the world leader in bakery depositing and cake-building technology. Since the late 1980s, Unifiller has been helping small and mid-sized bakeries grow and become more productive. The company started designing customized filling solutions for the packaging and food processing industry, and today, proudly offers a full range of bakery depositors, pumps and customized production systems.

Unifiller’s practical solutions help bakers portion and/or deposit cake batters, cake icings, warm fondants, fruit fillings, melted chocolate, whipped creams, liquid custards, heavy pastes, chunky fillings and much more. In addition, if an ingredient can be squeezed through a pastry bag, Unifiller can do it gently.

It is easy to do business with Unifiller. The company doesn’t just sell equipment, it sells solutions. By getting to know what the customer wants to achieve, and by working together with Unifiller’s experienced team of design engineers, bakery production and solutions experts, it can find a solution that works best.

If you are looking for easy-to-use technology for your individual workstations or even a complete, fully automated cake assembly, icing and decorating line, give Unifiller a call, and one of its solutions advisors will be pleased to help you find the right system that meets your needs.

If you have an application in mind, Unifiller’s Test Bakery is the place to start. It is fully equipped to perform test runs on customer samples with results you can count on. The company will issue a report, complete with pictures (and video upon request) to help you in your decision-making. All tests conducted by Unifiller are kept confidential.

At Unifiller, we are focused on providing solutions to help you achieve higher output, greater weight accuracy and better product integrity.

Videojet Technologies, Inc., is the world-leading manufacturer of coding, printing and laser-marking products, fluids and accessories for the product identification industry. Market leadership also extends to the graphics and postal markets, where Videojet delivers high-speed addressing, labeling and postal-coding equipment to commercial printers, professional mailers, national and international postal systems, as well as in-house and institutional media and mail processors. As experts in continuous ink jet (CIJ), drop-on-demand (DOD), thermal-transfer overprinting (TTO), array and laser technologies, Videojet has more than 285,000 units installed worldwide.

Videojet small character ink jet, laser and thermal transfer printers apply small, mico and high-resolution characters to nearly any surface at virtually any line speed, angle or location on a product or package. Large character printing products provide superior bar code resolution cartons and shipping containers, as well as logos, graphics and alphanumeric images.

As the leaders in variable coding, product identification and data collection with the broadest choices of technologies for the packaging industry, Videojet has partnered with Accu-Sort Systems, Inc., to bring to market an effective RFID solution. The company’s FASTTag system is a scalable, economic solution that can incorporate RFID tag application, bar code printing/labeling/scanning, verification and data management including communication with ERP systems.

Videojet is committed to providing a complete range of RFID solutions that can easily integrate into existing packaging operations. The company’s knowledge of secondary packaging coding requirements makes it uniquely capable of helping customers meet upcoming mandates.

Sales, service, training, administrative and application support is provided by direct operations worldwide, with more than 250 direct sales and service personnel in the United States alone. In addition, Videojet’s distribution network includes more than 175 distributors and OEMs, serving 135 countries.

Back in the early 1900s, Jesse Wade Greer sold candy from his grocery store in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. In 1920, he started created candy-making equipment in Cambridge, Mass. The conveyor belt he used on the Greer Coater became known as the Greer Belt. In 1947, that belt started a division into the Wire Belt Company of America. Today, the tradition continues. The company’s belts carry a reputation for toughness, resilience, a commitment to quality and innovation. That’s the promise of J.W. Greer and of the Wire Belt family.

Today, Wire Belt is working harder, setting the industry pace and raising the bar on industry standards. While Wire Belt’s products are primarily focused on the food processing industry, they are also widely used in a number of applications in industries such as textiles, electronics, agriculture, automotive and many others.

The entire Wire Belt, Flat-Flex line of products is accepted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and meets the requirements of NSF/ANSI/3-A hygiene standards. Wire Belt products are easy to clean, hygienic and long-lasting, ensuring the cleanest, most safe conveyor belt available in this business segment.

Wire Belt offers a complete package of products and services, from conveyor belts and accessories, specialty conveyors, on-site service to assess the potential of customers’ equipment or to help customers troubleshoot a processing issue. Customers can count on Wire Belt’s guarantee of service, integrity, value and price.