Multitex4 moulder improves bread quality
Date: 19 April 2006
Roberts Bakery installs four machines
Bread quality at Roberts Bakery has been improved by the installation of four Baker Perkins’ Multitex4 bread moulders.
Roberts, a family owned and run business based at Northwich in Cheshire, operates two lines producing a wide range of single and four-piece white and brown bread, including a number of high added-value recipes.
Quality is fundamental to their success: a high proportion of output is for demanding customers in the catering and sandwich making sectors.
Roberts conducted tests on a Multitex4 moulder in the Baker Perkins Innovation Centre at Peterborough, and during site trials at Northwich.
The results convinced them to replace existing moulders with four Multitex4 machines.
Roberts Bakery has been in business for over 100 years, and produces over two million loaves and morning goods each week.
Their customer base includes leading supermarkets throughout the North and Midlands; they also export throughout Europe.
The installation at Roberts is an example of how the Baker Perkins range of mixing and forming equipment is being used by bakers to improve bread quality.
The key feature of the Multitex4 is that, uniquely, the moulding head has four pairs of sheeting rollers.
The 4-roll 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.
These benefits translate into a loaf with better crumb structure and improved colour, is up to 18% softer; and has a strong straight sided shape that fills the tin well – particularly important for sandwich producers.
Process and equipment developments to the Tweedy Pressure Vacuum mixer, Accurist2 divider and Multitex4 moulder all bring substantial quality enhancements whether installed individually or as complete system.
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