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Materials Handling Equipment for Bakery Manufacturers

Matcon works will some of the leading bakery brands, providing IBC based systems that enable flexible production capabilities to respond to consumer demand.

A well designed food-grade system avoids potential allergen cross-contamination and gives manufacturers the opportunity to incorporate new products. 

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INCREASING PRODUCTION CAPACITY

for Bakery Manufacturers

Matcon are well known for designing versatile powder and materials handling systems for bakery manufacturers.  These solutions deliver safe & efficient handling of bakery ingredients, such as wheat, flour and starch, and overcome your dry processing production challenges.

By decoupling the manufacturing process steps, Matcon enable companies to achieve a flexible and efficient manufacturing system using lean principles and practices.

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YOUR CHALLENGES

Production Challenges for Bakery Manufacturers

With an increase in allergen awareness, consumer demand has pushed the responsibilities on to manufacturers. Failure to effectively manage allergens in the production process not only impacts reputation and profitability, it ultimately leaves you open to prosecution.

Increasing product variety and the demand for new flavours makes it difficult to handle production on traditional in-line fixed mixer systems due to the need for full clean-down each time recipes are changed.

Make-to-order recipes with shorter lead times can be hard to achieve if the production schedule isn’t flexible. It can mean that campaign manufacturing is used as a solution, which only serves to produce extensive inventory which needs careful storage and floor space.

New product lines increasingly are gluten-free which places more demand on adding flexibility and contamination containment within the system.

CHALLENGES IN BAKERY MANUFACTURING
  • No agility in the system to respond to consumer demand
  • Long cleaning times for recipe changeover
  • Wasted inventory due to campaign manufacturing
  • Sticky powders create powder bridging and blockages
  • Difficulty in tracing allergens
HOW MATCON CAN HELP

Improve Bakery Manufacturers Productivity

A Matcon solution is based on using a hygienically designed IBC System to deliver a good ROI on high variety bakery production schedules and facilitate manufacturers to 'make-to-order' rather than run a 'campaign' production process.

A flexible manufacturing line needs agile blending 

In-bin IBC blending eliminates cleaning down-time on recipe changeovers at the mixing stage. The system remains closed at all times as all bakery powders are contained within the IBC,  eliminating any risk for cross contamination and offering dust containment for a cleaner environment and operator safety. 

Simply and easily switch IBCs in & out of the process without worrying about any allergen cross-contamination. The Matcon Blender has been proven to enable single stage mixing of bakery mixes and higher fat content recipes can be mixed using the Blender Intensifier. 

Fast-Recipe-ChangeoverFast recipe changeover
for agile manufacturing

Prevent-SegregationPrevent mix segregation
for a high quality product

Trace-AllergensTrace allergens
for accurate labelling

Prevent-BridgingPrevent bridging
for precise dosing

Reduce-Cleaning-TimeReduce cleaning times
for high efficiency & a better ROI

No-Cross-ContaminationPrevent cross-contamination
for QA and consumer safety

MATCON PROVEN EXPERTISE

Efficiently Handling Commercial Bakery Ingredients

Matcon has years of experience working with bakery sector manufacturers and understands the importance of complying with strict food safety, hygiene and nutritional regulatory standards such as FDA Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG).

Over the years Matcon has supplied a range of flexible and efficient Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) Systems to numerous bakery manufacturing companies around the world, who make a wide variety of industrial baking mixes that contain ingredients such as wheat, starch, sugar, and flavoured extracts. One such installation for British Bakels created an IBC system for their high variety, low volume lines operating alongside the high runner product lines.

Our Blender Intensifier gives the ability to mix liquid fats efficiently, while single stage mixing within the IBC delivers a faster blend cycle.

THE MATCON APPROACH

Working with Bakery Manufacturers

The food sector faces many challenges with recipe changes and ever-increasing product portfolios, ethnic demands, allergens and more stringent regulations. By applying our ‘Lean’ principles and IBC technology to handle and process your bakery powder ingredients, you can transform how you manufacture your products and reap the benefits of Make to Order production and reduced inventory.

We achieve this by "decoupling" the manufacturing processes, allowing efficient "parallel processing" - several processing steps taking place in parallel rather than sequentially.

Matcon's IBC Mixer with intensifier mixing technology provides manufacturers with the capability to extend their bakery product ranges. With reduced cleaning downtime during recipe changeovers, products can be produced with much greater efficiency.

The unique Cone Valve inside each IBC helps to promote the flow of the more sticky, cohesive mixes.

Our IBC powder handling systems for bakery manufacturers can also be integrated with existing equipment to optimize production flow and create a system that fully meets your needs.

SYSTEM MODULES

Powder Handling Systems for Bakery Manufacturing

This simple system is all you need to get started the right way. By decoupling the processing steps we enable companies to achieve a flexible manufacturing system.

The Matcon system is based on using Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) to transport powders between manufacturing steps and as a blending vessel. Because everything is contained within the IBC, there is no clean-down of the blender between recipe changes, which gives you the ultimate flexibility of operation.

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Formulate

No waiting for formulation. Fill Intermediate Bulk Containers off-line for improved efficiency.

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Blend

Mix any recipe, any time. Eliminate time-consuming cleaning for instant recipe changeovers.

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Pack

Prevent mix segregation. Use the IBC Cone Valve for consistent, reliable results.

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Clean

Hygienic design for quick cleaning. No system down-time with off-line cleaning of IBCs.

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