Brazilian manufacturer buys wide biscuit plant
Date: 10 December 2007
Piraque expands with 540 Series biscuit cutting machine and hybrid oven
Leading Brazilian food producer Piraque is investing in a complete new production line from Baker Perkins to expand biscuit production. Piraque employ over 3,000 in a hi-tech production facility in Rio de Janeiro; they make a wide variety of biscuits, cookies, crackers and wafers, as well as pasta, margarine and corn oil.
Baker Perkins is supplying a high-output 1.5m wide plant, automated from mixing through to baking and cooling. It is specifically designed to make hard sweet biscuits, and will enable Piraque to increase output of their existing Marie, Maizena and Biscoito Leite brands, as well as introducing a new Petit Beurre to their range.
The line incorporates a Baker Perkins sheeting system to sheet, gauge and cut dough pieces - the industry standard for hard and semi-sweet products such as Marie and Petit Beurre. Precise control of dough piece size and weight is a key benefit, thanks to solid gauge rolls and new control technology ensuring accurate speed cascade.
The plant also includes a 75m long hybrid oven: this combines DGF (Direct Gas Fired) technology at the beginning of the bake with the latest version of Baker Perkins' Jetcirc oven at the end to optimize bake quality.
This line increases the Baker Perkins presence at Piraque. It is the latest in a series of recent orders from the company that includes a rotary moulding plant producing a range of soft dough biscuits, and a Dualtex extrusion machine for filled bars. These orders continue a relationship between the two companies that goes back to the early 1960s.
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