Depositors
Depositors are machines that deposit a fixed amount of product. For example, depositors are used for sandwich filling and biscuits or cookies. Volumetric depositors are also available Suitable for large range of products salad dressings, salsas, heavy sauces, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, tomato paste, potato salad, honey, syrup, marmalade, etc. Also suitable for non food products such as shampoos, gels, creams, etc..
Extruding Machines
There is a clear trend towards more complex products, with improved shape and colour definition to provide differentiation in a crowded market. Companies competing in this sector also need equipment with the flexibility to produce a range of products that match the latest trends in consumer preference; an inbuilt ability to bring new products to market quickly; and move easily into adjacent market niches. Twin-screw extrusion is a process that connects all these requirements, and a new co-extrusion system can be added to an existing single or twin-screw extrusion line supplied by virtually any manufacturer.
The co-extrusion system provides the means of incorporating fillings with contrasting textures and colours into a cereal outer.
It provides a capacity for making added-value products with out of the ordinary shapes that catch the eye, complemented by exotic flavours and fillings.
Fillings can be of virtually any colour or flavour – creams, fruit pastes, and chocolate praline are typical.
Exotic flavours, plus glazings, frostings or chocolate coating, add even more appeal.
Extruders can be single screw or twin screw machines. In the bakery sector, multi-lane extruding and sheeting is used.
Mixers
In the food industry, mixers are used in various sectors. A list of the types of mixers available are :-
- Aerators / Whippers
- Agitators
- Conical blenders
- Dough mixers
- Emulsifiers
- Gas
- Homogenisers
- In line mixers
- Meat mixers
- Paste mixers
- Plough blade mixers
- Powder mixers
- Ribbon mixers
- Solid phase mixers
- Viscous product mixers
- Z blade mixers
Refrigeration
The definition of refrigeration is "the process of removing heat from an enclosed space, or from a substance, and rejecting it elsewhere for the primary purpose of lowering the temperature of the enclosed space or substance and then maintaining that lower temperature".
In the food industry, there are various types of refrigeration as below :-
- Blast freezers
- Cold stores
- Continuous chillers
- Immersion chillers
- Scraped surface chillers
- Spiral freezers
- Vacuum chillers
Slicers and Dicers
Products effectively cut in slicing machines include potatoes, celery, asparagus, beans, peppers, lettuce, bread sticks, carrots, zucchini, chicken tenders, citrus peel, extruded products, pickles, and pepperoni.
Dicers cut a wide variety of food products including potatoes, tomatoes, bread, carrots, turnips, celery, pineapple, preformed boneless turkey roasts, pet food emulsions, sugar and beets.