Baker Perkins - World Major Bakery Equipment Manufacturers - A Profile

Baker Perkins have been serving world bakery industry  for long . It has installation across the globe and  bakery equipments have been installed in numerous bakeries in world . Baker Perkins have been pioneer in bakery technologies  its manufacturing expertise and  services  had made  them  world leader in bakery equipments .

Equipment manufacturing  are categorised  in following section in Baker Perkins

Bakery

Baker Perkins' market leading mixing and forming equipment is based on over 100 years experience of the specialist needs of high-output plant bakeries producing a wide product range. Other areas of expertise include baking, and there is specialist equipment for the production of niche products such as pizza.

Biscuit , cookies , crackers and Pet food

Baker Perkins has the largest installed base, the widest range of equipment and the greatest depth of resources for the supply of processing machinery. From dough mixing to ovens that harness the latest scientific technologies, the Baker Perkins capability covers every conceivable type of product and added-value option. As well as offering 'best-in-class' equipment for each key process stage, there is constant development of new end products and processes.

Confectionery

Baker Perkins has almost a century of experience in the design, manufacture and commissioning of complete plants, with over 500 systems operational. They are used to make a wide selection, from hard candy, lollipops, butterscotch, milk boils and caramels to gum, fudge, fondant crèmes and jellies. Centre-fillings, multi-colours, stripes, layers, inclusions, sugar-free and sugar options are all available to bring variety and eye-catching appeal to the market place

Cereal and Snacks

Baker Perkins' world-class cereal cookers, twin-screw extruders, flaking rolls and toasters make the company the preferred partner for market-leading manufacturers of high-value cereal products. Every type of breakfast cereal is produced, as well as health/breakfast bars and cereal based baby foods. Baker Perkins also pioneered end product development and process technology to meet the expanding and rapidly changing needs of the snacks market, particularly in the field of twin-screw extrusion.

After  Sales  Service

Baker Perkins  takes complete project from design to commissioning stage  from  customer . through their Aftermarket services  from USA and UK based centres .Baker Perkins provides excellent support in terms of spares for their equipments such as moulds , dies , moulders and cutters  , service contracts , benchmarking , optimising ,inspection and measuring equipments.

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 Brief History

Perkins and  Bakers were two  most reputed brands for bakery equipments in 19th century England . Both companies were formed by  two north Americans  Jacob Perkins and Joseph Baker  who emigrated to  England for business . Both these companies then merged to form Baker Perkins in 1920 .

The business had expanded to become genuinely global in its organisation and sales when in 1987 the dairy and liquid food specialist, APV, acquired it. As APV Baker the company continued to develop its position at the forefront of the food sectors served. We can find many equipments  with APV  logo  still working in bakeries .

In 2006 private investors  John Cowx and Brian  Taylor acquired  Baker Perkins from APV  and was  renamed to original name of Baker Perkins .

HQ

UK
Peter borough

Baker Perkins Ltd.
Manor Drive,Paston Parkway,Peter borough
PE4 7AP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1733 283000,Fax: +44 1733 283001
Email :bpltd@bakerperkinsgroup.com

USA
Grand Rapids

Baker Perkins Inc.
3223 Kraft Ave. S.E.,Grand Rapids, MI,49512-2027
USA
Tel: +1 616 784 3111,Fax: +1 616 784 0973
Email: bpinc@bakerperkinsgroup.com
Website : http://www.bakerperkinsgroup.com/

Biscuit Production Line

Biscuit production line consists of following equipments with brief  description

Mixers
All  ingredients are mixed into mixers  to prepare  dough  with desired characteristics . Normally two stage mixing is done  in biscuit production One with rapid slow speed and second stage with rapid speed hence one select a dual speed mixer .

Dough Elevator or Dough Tipper

Dough bowl  are either taken to tippers where dough is decanted into mixer bowl  which is beneath the tipper at level lower  to the tipper  or  dough bowl is  carried to certain height  and then tilted to decant the bowl into laminator hopper .

Dough Laminator

Laminator main function is to reduce the  mass of dough into uniform sheet or laminate for further reduction in gauge roll . Laminators have sets of roller where this dough is acted upon  and are converted into dough sheet .

Gauge Rolls

These gauge rolls have set of cylindrical rollers which rotates in reverse direction so as to  give  push to the next gauge rolls . Three stand to four stand of gauge rolls are used in normal biscuit  production line . Speed of rolls ae set as per the baking time and increases  as we proceed further .

Moulding /or  Cutter Unit

These are equipment  which cuts the dough sheet into desired shape and size . Plant out put are calculated as per the design of the moulder or cutter . These cutters or moulders have dies , cups or inserts which are fixed on the cavities or  surface of the moulder or cutter .
Now days engraved moulders and cutters are available . Moulders are now designed in rings instead of single piece which helps in maintenance or changing damaged cups .

Moulder are used for short dough  where as cutters are used for hard dough variety

Scrap return conveyor

These conveyors  returns the  scrap dough back to mixers which are again used for production thus minimising waste .

Swivel Panner
Swivel panner  is  installed at the feed end of oven where it centres the dough piece entrance on baking oven band  it has swivel arrangement on which it balances the  web or centres the web  so that wet dough pieces enter s oven in straight line .

Baking Oven

Dough pieces then enters oven  and travels on wire band for baking . Burners generates heat which is circulated through ducts or pipelines  to bake wet  dough pieces . length and width of oven are designed as per the capacity required . Oven speed is adjusted as per the standards baking time for particular variety


Stripper Conveyor

Stripper conveyors are provided  at  the delivery end of oven so that  baked biscuit are cooled and doest not come into contact of any surface when hot . Stripper conveyors has wire mesh which carries these hot baked biscuit .


Cooling Conveyor

These conveyors  are provided in biscuit production line to   bring down temperature of   hot biscuits which comes out from oven . normally they 1.5 -2 times of  oven length .


Magnetic Stacker

Stacker are used to  distributes and   arrange biscuits  in a line and are thus could be stacked easily for packing process . These biscuits  are made to pass of plates which acts as guides which makes these biscuits to fall into space between the guides .


Packing Table

Biscuit s travels into guidelines on packing table where either they are fed into  into  packing machine automatically or are fed into feeding chutes  manually by operators .


Packing Machine
Biscuits are fed into packing  machine for packaging   there are various types of biscuit packing such as pile type , on the edge  and cream sandwich type . Horizontal flow wrap machines are  mostly used to pack with flexible packaging .

Biscuit  Process Flow Diagram 
Bread Process  Flow  Diagram 
Accesories & Additional Equipments For  Biscuit Production