Unibic forays into wafer biscuit segment

While visiting one of the shopping centre near my residence I can find this unibic wafer biscuit pack promoted with one pack free with one. Wafer biscuit market is  in  nascent  stageIndian market have few players in this segment . Britannia ,Dukes,Tiffany,Nutro are few popular brands in Indian  wafer biscuit segment

Unibic  key  products are wire cut  cookies  and are dominant  player  in cookies segment .Unibic India is a  subsidiary of UNIBIC Australia, UNIBIC India Pvt. Ltd., has its factory and infrastructure in Bangalore with state of the art machines from Italy. 
  

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Popular brands of wafer biscuit in India

Wafer biscuits are another bakery product which has gained popularity in recent times . Wafer biscuits are of two types cream filled sandwich type where cream is filled betwwwen to layers of wafer s sheets which are then cut into wafer fingers and then packaed . Second type is coated type normally wafers are coated or enrobed by chocolate layer .

Popular brands for chocolate enrobed wafers biscuit are
Bravo - Bakers Pride - From Al sallan food Industries Co SAOG
Nestle - Munch
Cadbury - Perk

Wafer biscuit cream filled
Dukes
Tiffany
Nutro
Various cream varities are available from these brands such as vanilla , orange , hazzlenut ,milk ,banana

Its interesting that wafers are produced in large quantity but are mostly unbranded or localised , what I can collect from shelf were Wafers biscuits brand Tiffany and Nutro which are been sourced from UAE . There is a big potential for bakery manufacturers to enter branded wafer biscuit market in India .

Please suggest brand of wafer biscuit from your area .

Bakery Equipments - Wafers biscuit manufacturing

Another popular bakery products are Wafer biscuits. Basically they are of two type

• Cream filled sandwich type : Two layers or Three Layers


• Coated or Enrobed chocolate type

Following are the equipments required for automated wafers biscuit manufacturing

• Batter Mixers with transfer unit


• Plasticizers


• Cream Mixers with transfer unit


• Wafer baking Oven

These ovens have baking plates for wafers which are selected as per the size of wafer sheet )

• Cooling Arch or Bridge


• Wafer Spreading Unit


• Wafer Block Cooler


• Wafer Block Cutting


• Wafer Distributor for guiding blocks to various packing machine


• Flow wrap Packing machine

As wafers are very fragile packaging are mostly done in boxes and are then passed to packing machine for wrapper packaging .

Wafer Biscuit glossary are . Batter , cream , fingers , wafer sheet layer , baking plates , tongs , Conche mixers , Wafer sheet blocks .