Innovation Centres

Baker Perkins offers facilities for customers to develop new products and processes, produce samples for test marketing, and conduct feasibility trials.

The Innovation Centres at Peterborough in the United Kingdom and Grand Rapids, Michigan in the United States contain a wide range of production and laboratory scale equipment dedicated to the biscuit, cookie, cracker and pet food industries.  Customers are guaranteed total confidentiality, working with or without the help of Baker Perkins' experienced food technologists.

Companies from every part of the world find that thorough trials, often using their own local raw materials, provide a reliable basis for trouble-free commissioning of a new plant or the launch of a new product.

The wide variety of process technologies and equipment available in our Innovation Centres enables us to cross conventional process boundaries, and to offer a variety of process solutions for a single product.

This range of equipment is permanently available, and specialty units can be brought in if necessary to complete a process.  Alternatively, customers are welcome to bring along their own technologies to integrate within our existing equipment.

Peterborough Facilities

The Peterborough Innovation Centre houses a pilot scale line including a 300mm wide flexible forming line for rotary moulded, sheeted and laminated products. It feeds a 25M oven with radiant and convection baking capabilities.

There is also a Thermal Performance Research Oven (TPRO).  This is a unique, flexible batch oven that simulates baking conditions of a travelling oven.  Product development and process tests can be undertaken very quickly at minimal cost and produce in just a few hours results that would take days or even weeks to achieve on a conventional pilot plant oven.  It can be used for bread, rolls, cake, pizza, biscuits, cookies, crackers and cereals.

In addition to the Biscuit, Cookie and Cracker section of the Peterborough Innovation Centre, there are also facilities dedicated to the Bakery, Confectionery, Snack and Breakfast Cereal industries.

Grand Rapids Facilities

The Grand Rapids Innovation Centre has a pilot scale line capable of producing wirecut, rotary moulded, chewy\hard granola and co-extruded type products.  

Our 60 foot long Multi-Media tunnel oven is able to simulate recirculating, impingement and Direct Gas Fired (DGF) modes of operation to meet most baking needs.  This oven has both a band and a mesh for increased test flexibility.  There is also a 12 foot long Enerjet oven is also available, his oven is capable of reducing bake time up to 40%.  Also available is a mixer, creamer, chocolate aereation system.

 

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