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Belts & Conveyors
Plastic, modular, positive drive & other belts and conveyors for snack and bakery operations, including silicone, polyester, polyvinylchloride (PVC), thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) & polyolefine (TPO).
Equipment
The latest in machinery, technology, materials and systems.
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Control Systems
Operations control systems including logistics systems, computer hardware, computer software, weighers, checkweighers, human-machine interfaces (HMI), ingredient handling, batching, process control, traceability, recipe control, receiving & order fulfillment.
Depositors, Dividers & Rounders
Depositors, dividers and rounders for portioning, shaping, decorating, enrobing and more, including automatic and continuous systems.
Extruders
Extruder equipment and technology for single-screw extrusion, twin-screw extrusion and co-extrusion, including hot and cold processes.
Fryers
Fryer equipment and technology for frying snacks, including automated, continuous, vacuum, rotary and other systems.
Laminators & Sheeters
Dough laminator and sheeter equipment and technology, including inline, continuous folding, intermediate resting, flexible, artisanal and automatic.
Mixers
Mixers, including vertical, horizontal, spiral, planetary, batch, high-shear, continuous and inline.
Ovens & Proofers
Ovens, including deck, single-pass, tray, tunnel, continuous, conveyor, impinger, rotating, rack, hearth, combination, hybrid, zone, gas-fired, convection, as well as equipment & technology for proofing dough.
Packaging
Packaging line equipment & technology, including depanning, cooling, form/fill/seal (FFS), laminated, pouch, glass, flexible, rigid, inspection, palletizers, robotics, scales, closing, tray handling & bagging.
Slicing, Cutting & Portioning
Equipment and technology for slicing, cutting and portioning, including automatic, band, ultrasonic, guillotine, dicers and slitter wheels.
Warehouse & Distribution
Warehouse & distribution logistics systems, computer hardware, computer software, stackers, loaders, pallets, secondary packaging, robotics, automation, fleet management, freezers & cold storage.
Inspection & Detection
Inspection and Detection equipment for the snack food and bakery industries.
ARTICLES
RBS unveils Thomas L. Green Emithermic XE Oven
The unit is designed to give cracker producers an alternative to direct gas fired ovens.
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Motion Controls Robotics introduces collaborative, end-of-line palletizer
The palletizer features a FANUC CRX-25iA collaborative robot.
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Mitsubishi Gas Chemical releases first-ever, PFAS-free oxygen absorber
The technology will debut at Pack Expo in booth SU-7490.
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Flexco introduces FGP Food Grade Primary Cleaner with external spring
The cleaner is ideal for use in most sanitary food processing applications.
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Clextral: snack bars keep enticing health-hungry consumers
A leader from the extruder solutions provider company talks trends and tech.
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Multi-Conveyor builds 1:2 conveyor system with simplistic divert and pin-pull interlocks
The conveyor system was built for a flexible snack bag product.
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Andersen and Sons safeguards their nut products with x-ray inspection tech
The family-run business uses Mettler-Toledo Safeline systems to detect foreign matter.
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Great American Packaging debuts OneEarth packaging product line
Evolving flexible packaging portfolio designed to protect products, processes, people, and the planet.
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UK potato chip brand Burts Snacks forges long-term partnership with tna
The snack producer has turned to the food technology firm to boost production.
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Bühler expands line of optical sorters geared toward nut processing
The equipment is geared toward helping snack and bakery producers increase yields.
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Douglas J. Peckenpaugh
Douglas J. Peckenpaugh is Group Publisher of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery, Dairy Foods, The National Provisioner, and Packaging Strategies for BNP Media. He has nearly three decades of publishing experience following the food industry from farm to fork, covering agriculture, ingredient processing, retail grocery branding, foodservice menu development, and food product R&D and manufacturing. He serves in leadership roles at his local suburban Chicago food pantry and church. Doug studied Professional and Creative Writing at Purdue University.
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New Processing Equipment: February 2023
Dough handling can be a dangerous, demanding job. Risks to worker safety, coupled with the increasing pressure to provide conserve costs while delivering quality, are making automation appealing, and efficiency necessary, when selecting bakery equipment. The following dough handling solutions offer balance worker safety with other necessities.
New Processing Equipment: September 2022
Energy efficiency, automation, and ensuring a robust return-on-investment have been top-of-mind for snack food and wholesale bakery companies in the market for ovens and proofers, according to companies that make those machines, who say sales have been strong.
New Packaging Equipment: September 2022
Bakery and snack plants are moving away from manual cartoning and case packing to automated equipment.
New Packaging Equipment: August 2022
When setting green/sustainability goals, consumer packaged goods companies are moving beyond a narrow focus to look holistically and collaboratively at products, packaging, and operations.
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.
New Processing Equipment: May 2022
Snack food and wholesale bakery companies in the market for machines that help prepare, store, transport, and otherwise handle ingredients are most focused on qualities like automation, ease of maintenance, and the ability to deliver higher performance in throughput and accuracy.
New Packaging Equipment: May 2022
Innovation is prevalent in the area of closing and bagging equipment as well as twist ties, clips, zippers and package resealing. Thanks to product introductions and equipment upgrades, these systems run faster and are easier to use.
New Processing Equipment: March 2022
Companies that make seasoning and coating systems for snack and bakery applications, which mostly focus on salty snacks like chips, cheese puffs, pretzels, and popcorn, report a number of trends in requests regarding features and benefits from customers of such machines during the COVID-19 pandemic of the past couple years.
New Packaging Equipment: March 2022
New developments in the creation of food labels is providing bakery and snack producers with flexibility to run a wide range of different product sizes and types. Advances have been made in the following areas: printers, software, inks, and marking/coding technology.
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.