Baker Perkins launches dust-free bread moulding at IBIE
Date: 19 May 2010
Multitex4 enters the North American market at IBIE
Baker Perkins, a name well known to high-output plant bakers in the UK and Australasia, is introducing a range of high-efficiency, dust-free dough forming equipment for pan bread to the North American market at IBIE (booth 7207).
The ability to divide, round, mould and pan dough pieces without the use of dusting flour brings significant cost savings by eliminating the cost of flour, flour dusting equipment and its maintenance and cleaning. Sanitation standards are significantly raised, labor costs reduced, and potential health and safety risks to employees eliminated.
The Multitex4 dough moulder on show at IBIE is part of a completely safe and sanitary dust-free forming system for high-output, high-efficiency pan bread bakeries. The system can also include a divider, rounder and first proofer.
A combination of gentle dough handling and the strategic application of process air ensures the dough passes through the machine without sticking to ensure non-stop running. Designed to operate under all production conditions to generate additional profit, the Multitex4 features spring loading of the sheeting rolls and moulding boards. This allows doubles to pass through without smearing or sticking, avoiding cleaning stops.
The Multitex4 moulder is well proven with dozens of installations in the high-output plant bakeries around the world. Multitex4’s are used in US style operations in southern Europe, and they are the industry standard in many parts of the world including the UK and Ireland, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Investment in Baker Perkins forming equipment can bring significant improvements in bread quality. A series of innovative developments achieve gentler dough handling, which is a clear path to superior bread quality and value, and combines the highest standards with economic production. Careful handling of the dough preserves the integrity of the dough structure, and results in a loaf with higher consumer appeal.
The latest generation of equipment retains all the reliability and low cost of ownership benefits of the original machines.
The Multitex4 has, uniquely, four pairs of close-coupled sheeting rollers – each pair has individually controlled variable gap and speed. This arrangement improves end product quality by controlling size, shape and length-to-width ratio of the dough sheet prior to coiling.
It allows tighter coiling, with more coils, while at the same time significantly reducing stress to the dough through a more progressive thickness reduction.
