Extruders | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

Producers seek to extrude better-for-you, ‘fun’ ingredients

Snack and bakery producers are demanding more features than ever from extrusion equipment.

Ed Finkel

November 16, 2022

Snack and bakery producers are demanding more features than ever from extrusion equipment.

Cleanability, flexibility, remote support top interests for extruder customers

Extruder customers aim to keep up with consumer trends.

Ed Finkel

November 22, 2021

Snack and bakery companies looking at new or improve extrusion equipment to create puffed and popped snacks, bakery items like nutrition bars, and other types of SKUs have features and benefits like cleanability, flexibility, and remote support high on their list of considerations, according to companies that make extrusion equipment.

Baker Perkins' co-extrusion system enhancements improve control and performance

April 10, 2021

Baker Perkins has exploited innovative technology to improve process control, performance and hygiene on all the units in its Co-Ex Master co-extrusion systems, which create high-value products by adding a center filling into a cereal outer.

State of the Industry 2020: Puffed and extruded snacks grow through innovation

Consumers embrace snack flavor and format diversity.

Liz Parker Kuhn

July 21, 2020

The puffed and extruded snacks category has grown-up, and the market is seeing some diverse company.

Snack and bakery extrusion companies seek flexibility, better sanitation

Extruder customers want flexibility, sanitation, quick changeover

Ed Finkel

April 20, 2020

Flexibility, greater sanitation, gentle handling of ingredients, quicker changeovers, more precise weight control, and the ability to make products with healthier ingredients are top of mind features and benefits for snack and bakery customers of extrusion equipment and technology.

Market demands drive innovation in snack and bakery extrusion equipment

Extrusion equipment gains improvements to meet market demands

Ed Finkel

April 16, 2019

Customers of machines that handle puffing and extruding of snack and bakery products are focused on accommodating protein- and plant-based inclusions, hygienic design and rapid cleaning, speed and quick changeovers, better integrated controls, easy data extraction, and smaller machines that can produce specialized batches.

GEA RM 2000 rotary molder and wire cut extruder EM 1000

September 25, 2018

The soft-dough and cookies sector of the biscuit market comprises a wide-ranging family of products.

GEA DFV3 multi-extruder

September 21, 2018

The new high-performance co-extruder from GEA is designed to simultaneously deposit two different types of dough, plus a third, fluid filling.

Egan Food Technologies 4-roll co-extruder

Egan Food Technologies four roll co-extruder

August 8, 2018

Egan Food Technologies, a confectionery and baking process equipment manufacturer and service provider, will unveil at Pack Expo a new four-roll co-extruder featuring a design that significantly reduces product changeover and cleaning times.

New extrusion equipment offers better hygiene, speed and flexibility

Hygienic design, quicker changeovers and reduced maintenance time are top benefits with new equipment

Ed Finkel

April 12, 2018

Hygienic design, quicker changeovers, reduction of maintenance time, improved cooling ability and the modularity and flexibility to run more-diverse products-sometimes with exotic raw materials that need gentler processing-are the top-of-mind issues for customers of extrusion equipment.