Sugar Grinders - Major Bakery equipments

Sugar  is a major ingredients  for  all bakery products   whether in  bread , biscuits , cakes or wafer biscuit along with flour and fat . Addition of  sugar can be done in

• Crystals or Granules
• Powdered Form
• Sugar Solution
• Invert Syrup

All above mentioned  types of  sugar additions are done as per the requirement of  bakery products .. Mostly powdered  sugar are used to enhance the taste( sweetness )   of the product due to better mixing in dough stage  .

Powdered sugar are obtained  from Sugar Grinders  which  grinds sugar granules into powder form and  are basically of two types

Basic Types of  sugar grinder  are

Hammer types mill
Pin types mill

Particle  sizes of  these powdered  sugar can be altered through mesh   size

Capacity of Sugar Grinder/Pulveriser  : 500kg/hr - 1000kg/hr

Normal components of Sugar grinding systems  apart from  Sugar grinder  are

Screw conveyor  Or  Spiral conveyor -  Operators need to keep in mind the hygroscopic  nature of sugar  which may clog these conveyors frequently hence any wet sugar or high moisture sugar should be avoided  for grinding .

Dust Collector Bags : These are required to collect sugar dust  as huge amount  of sugar dust is generated while grinding  . These dust collector bags traps the dust  and these could be used in production . Dust collectors reduces the waste and keeps  the  environment dust free which very important for any bakery unit . Filter bags need replacement after  bags starts choking .

Safety precaution -  Sugar being hygroscopic in nature has tendency  to get fire on higher temperatures  hence  we should always ensure electric arrestors to the sugar grinding components such as mill, filter bags ( critical) etc.

One should always place  permanent magnets bar s into infeed hopper  for metal detection in the sugar .


Major Sugar Grinder supplier are

International
Bauermeister
Stephan Machinery

Local
Kaps Engineers
Mangal machinery

Racking Solution For Storage In Bakery

Space constrain is a major problem for bakery manufacturers . You need space for  raw material , packaging material  and finished goods along with parts storage systems  engineering goods and work shop floor .

Storage space is required for

Raw material  
Packaging material
Plastic and wooden pallets
Work in Progress material
Finished Goods
Engineering  Spares
Rejected packed products
Workshop or maintenance working area

With limited space one can optimise by introducing racking storage in their factory or ware house . Racking system uses vertical spaces rather than horizontal span hence reducing the space requirement . Goods can be stacked  on pallets  and the same can be stored or kept on these racks reducing the loading and unloading time .

Racking system can be designed  keeping in the view the height and width of the available area  and  can be designed to store products stacked on pallets .  we can design the racking cell keep the view the pallet dimensions .

Racks   are formed into  rows and columns  are  calculated in basis of  row x columns such as 6x4 , 8x4  etc  depending on the space available .

Another advantage is the dismantling and erection of these racks . These could be easily  dismantled and erected in short time  as these are made up with frames and  use fastener for installation .So any expansion can be done without any major cost .

Its highly suggested that bakery manufacturers  to go for racking systems to optimise their space . Using Forklift the materials can be stored upto 4- 5 meter  height .