QUEST EQUIPMENT LTD
- Address:
-
Rathlin House
New Road
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP22 5JB
UK
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)1296 632514
- Website
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www.questequipment.co.uk
- Email:
- info@questequipment.co.uk
- Membership:
- PPMA
Management Personnel
- Managing Director Jenny Baxter
- Business Development Josh Baxter BA (Hons)
Quest Equipment Ltd is proud to work exclusively with some of the leading and most respected names in the design and manufacture of industrial equipment. Our equipment is sourced in Europe and the USA and we have many suppliers with embedded family values.
We specialise in the baking industry with many years experience and particular expertise in the sectors of cakes, desserts and biscuits. We have also supplied process and wrapping solutions to other sectors including the confectionery & pharmaceutical industries.
We can supply unit machines or complete processing & wrapping lines for products as diverse as biscuits, crackers, cakes, flapjack, traybakes, muffins, doughnuts, choux, cheesecake and confectionery. They are manufactured to customer specification to ensure they fully meet the requirement.
Processing lines generally start with mixing, followed by a range of processing options dependant on the product requirements, eg. depositing or cake makeup, then cooling, portioning, enrobing & end of line including feeding systems and wrapping.
Products Supplied
- Bulk Storage & Handling of Raw Materials:
- Silos, big bag stations, minor & micro ingredient dosing for dry, powder & liquid ingredients.
- Spiral Cooling:
- Spiral systems for proving, baking, cooling and freezing. Drumless system allows for easier access and maintenance, better air flow & improved efficiency.
- Flow Wrapping:
- Horizontal flow wrapping for primary and secondary packing with infeed systems for flat & on-edge wrapping. Robotics for carton & case filling and case erection and closure.
- Biscuit Sandwiching:
- Depositing of range of fillings including jam, cream, chocolate, caramel and mallow and making sandwiched biscuit and cake.
Also injection of creams etc. - Mixing:
- Planetary mixers from 120-1000L capacity with variety tools for mixing range of products from highly aerated products like meringue through to heavy cake batters and pastry doughs. Available in special execution with steam heated & vacuum cooled bowls for cooking choux, sauces & custards.
Continuous mixing systems with premixer, holding tank and continuous aerator in vertical execution for improved mixing. Cooling available on mixing head.
Horizontal mixer for biscuit doughs, pastry and harder doughs. - Biscuit Processing:
- Biscuit lines including rotary moulding, rotary cutting and laminating lines for soft & hard dough biscuits.
Also depositing lines for mallow, meringue & soft dough cookies. - Cake Line Processing:
- Cake lines for production of layer cake and Swiss rolls. Work table, slitting, jam & cream depositing, layering or swiss rolling and cutting.
- Baking:
- Continuous band ovens, which are gas, hybrid or electrically heated. Band widths up to 1500mm wide.
- Ultrasonic Cutting:
- Standalone and inline ultrasonic cutters for cake & bakery goods. Includes inline cleaning. Also round blades for cutting rolls & buns whilst product still hot.
- Chocolate Equipment:
- Chocolate tempering, enrobing, moulding and cooling tunnels.
Also bar lines for cold pressed products including sheeting, cutting, enrobing and cooling. - Oil Spraying:
- Drum spraying for very accurate application of oils, slurries and sugar solutions for biscuits and snack products.
- Frying:
- Inline frying of donuts and snacks.
Complete donut lines for proving, frying and cooling.
There are no overseas Rep descriptions registered for this organisation
Companies represented in the UK
- Radar Process, Spain:
- Silos and big bag hoppers for storage and handling of dry & liquid ingredients. Minor & micro ingredient dosing.
- GOE, USA:
- Drum spraying systems for very accurate application of oil, slurry and sugar solutions.
- Hinds Bock, USA:
- Multi piston depositors. Cup/tray filling and high temperature fillers. Denesters.
- Tonelli, Italy:
- Mixers - Vertical planetary with possibility of controlled heating & cooling whilst mixing. Also horizontal, and continuous mixing on a skid with premixer, holding tank and vertical execution aerating mixer.
Cake processing lines. - Doeinghaus Cutting and More, Germany:
- Inline ultrasonic cutting and slitting with infeed systems. Also standalone ultrasonic cutting.
- Tecnopool, Italy:
- Spiral conveying systems for many applications including cooling and freezing. Also spiral proving & baking systems.
Inline fryers for donuts.
Turnkey lines for proving, frying & cooling or freezing. - Machine Builders & Design (MB&D), USA:
- Cookie cappers and depositors for biscuits & cakes. Also injectors.
Tray packer for semi-automatic packing. - Cavanna, Italy:
- Feeding and flow wrapping systems for primary & secondary wrapping. Horizontal multilevel, trombone and vertical buffers. Feed systems for products flat or on edge. Also robotic filling, and case erection, filling and closure.
- Lekos, Slovakia:
- Chocolate tempering, enrobing, moulding and cooling tunnels. Complete bar lines.
- Polin, Italy:
- Industrial depositors and extruders, rotary moulders and sheeting lines.
Inline travelling ovens, gas, hybrid or electrically heated.
Trade names
- Radar
- GOE
- Hinds Bock
- Tonelli
- Doeinghaus Cutting and More
- Tecnopool
- Machine Builders and Design
- MB&D
- Cavanna
- Lekos
- Polin
- Tecnofryer