Biscuit Grinders –How to reduce waste in biscuit production

Biscuit  manufacturing generates waste in form of 

• Loose biscuits
• Over weight biscuits
• Under weight biscuits
• Unpacked biscuits
• Oven dropping
• Rejection due to color
• Rejection due to ingredients
• Trial  waste
• Packing machine rejections
• Packing defective

These if not recycled can result in huge loss of money labour  fuel and packaging  for the company  . The best way to recover some value is to recycle these biscuits . These biscuits should be collected in hygienic ways in s.s  containers  without being contaminated  and with help of biscuit grinder turned into biscuit powder which can easily  be  used in fresh batch of mixing . Normally 1-2% of batch weight can be biscuit dust without affecting the dough properties . Ensure that  biscuit powder is labeled as per the variety  and is added in the similar variety .Excess addition can affect the quality of the biscuit .

Various type of Biscuit grinders are available in market

• Rotary type   biscuit grinders

• Hammer type  grinders

Principle  of biscuit grinder is that these defective biscuits are put into either pin type or hammer type grinders which on higher rpm reduces these biscuits into fine dust . We can always adjust these elements to increase or decrease  the powder size . Keep these  biscuit powder either in s.s enclosed containers or  food grade  plastic bags . Ensure that Rejected biscuits are screened with metal detectors installed on the feeding conveyor .

Popular Grinders are  from   equipment  International equipment manufacturer

• Stephan Machinery
• Bauermiester

Indian Biscuit Grinders can be sourced from

• Kaps Engineer
• Mangal Machinery

Unilever To Buy All Its Palm Oil From Certified Sustainable Vendors

Bakery Industry  are bulk  consumer of Palm oil  and 80% of the palm oil are sourced from  Asean countries . Manufacturers and Palm tree grower have created an environmental crisis in these countries through mindless encroachment of forest land through massive deforestation .  It would have better if all major food companies get their palm requirement through certified vendors which would ensure that they are producing palm oil through  sustainable methods .

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Unilever today announced that it has secured enough GreenPalm certificates of sustainable palm oil to cover the requirements of its European business; as well as those of its business in Australia and New Zealand.


This is part of Unilever’s overall commitment to buy all its palm oil from certified sustainable sources by 2015.


GreenPalm is a certificate trading programme, endorsed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which is designed to tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil. By selling certificates through the GreenPalm programme, palm oil producers can earn more for their crop through sustainable farming.



Gavin Neath, Unilever’s SVP Global Communications and Sustainability, said: “This is an important achievement and a significant step in our journey towards sustainable palm oil sourcing. Until suitable segregated supply chains become available, GreenPalm certificates are the best option to encourage growers to comply with the requirements of the RSPO and certify their plantations as sustainable. Our consumers can now confidently choose Unilever brands in the knowledge that we are actively supporting the development of a sustainable palm oil industry.”



Although there are now significant quantities of certified sustainable palm oil available on the market, there isn’t yet sufficient volume coming through segregated supply chains where buyers can have confidence that the refined oil which they are buying comes from a plantation, mill and refinery which have been certified sustainable.



Last year Unilever purchased 180,000 GreenPalm certificates at a premium to the market price for ordinary palm oil. This accounted for over 80% of all the certificates traded globally in 2009. We will double this volume in 2010.

"We hope that our actions will transform the palm oil industry and help put a stop to deforestation in South East Asia," concluded Neath.



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