Cereal Master concept to adapt and extend existing lines
Date: 15 July 2010
Baker Perkins Expandable Line Concept
Baker Perkins’ ability to extend and adapt existing cereal lines utilising a wide choice of units, with minimal investment, will be highlighted at Pack Expo in Chicago (booth 6942).
The Cereal Master concept allows an extrusion line producing direct expanded cereals such as corn balls, multigrain rings, alphabet shapes, and cocoa balls to be extended to make a range of high added-value flakes, multigrain flakes and filled pillows.
New products can be introduced quickly, and short-life products become a profitable option.
Baker Perkins provides the process and engineering expertise to reconfigure the lines, and works with customers to develop new product ideas, often in the Baker Perkins Innovation Centre, where a comprehensive range of equipment is available for trials. Each installation is individually specified to match the customer’s exact product needs.
Key to the Cereal Master concept is the new SBX Master twin-screw cooker extruder, a solid-barrel unit offering process flexibility through modular design, high free-volume geometry and high torque capacity. With the range of barrel diameters available outputs from 225 to 2,000kg.hr are possible.
In its simplest form the machine produces conventional direct expanded cereals that can be used to build or consolidate a market position. The modular barrel enables the length of each machine to be matched precisely to the customer’s process application, and enables extension later as production needs change.
Flaking rolls, shredders, cookers and dryers can be added to a basic line to make a wide range of high-specification products. A coating system adding value through frosting or glazing is a further possibility.
Baker Perkins combines a portfolio of unit machines used by cereal producers world-wide with the knowledge and expertise to combine them into systems producing virtually every kind of RTE (ready to eat) breakfast cereals.
