Pakistan s Biscuit Industries face sugar shortage

Pakistan's biscuit and confectionery manufacturers association has asked government to supply sugar to biscuit factories as sugar availability in open market has been reduced drastically

The chairman of the Association Mr Maqsood Ismail has warned government for the closure of biscuit factories which would result in heavy job losses as biscuit and confectionery industry employs around two million people directly and indirectly .He also urged the Trading Corporation of Pakistan to come into action in this matter and make sugar available to them.

Source:Dawn News

Major player in Pakistans biscuit industry are

• EBM (English Biscuit Manufacturers (Private) Limited)


• Coronet Foods (Private) Ltd


• Continental Biscuits (LU)


• Montgomery Biscuits,


• Silver lake


• Mehtab Industry (Krunchi)

Together they constitutes approximately 70% of the branded Market.50% market share is still unbranded

Additional equipments required for biscuit production line

Apart from basic equipments such as biscuit oven , mixers , laminators , packaging machine which are used by large biscuit manufacturers in their automated biscuit production line there are certain equipment requirement specific for certain varieties . We can call them accessories to the main biscuit production line .These are either permanently installed on the line or can be fitted on the production line during change overs .Varieties like Crackers , Cream , Nice , Milk and for additives like cashew , pistachio and other nuts would require these additional equipment on the biscuit production line.

To make your plant truly versatile you need to ask your biscuit plant and machinery manufacturer to make the plant for hard dough and short dough variety or in other words biscuit plant which can produce cutting and moulding variety .

Following equipments are

• Oil spray unit
• Milk spray unit
• Flour dusting unit
• Cashew or Nut sprinklers
• Salt Sprinklers
• Sugar Sprinklers
• Biscuit Grinders
• Sugar Grinders
• Creaming Unit
• Depositors
• Milk Storage and preparation unit

When installing biscuit production line check for above mentioned equipments and make arrangement for them .