Complete Breakfast Cereal Production Systems at Gulfood

Baker Perkins makes complete systems to produce virtually every type of breakfast cereal: this capability will be highlighted at Gulfood Manufacturing on the company’s stand S-F29, located in the British Pavilion.

Baker Perkins makes complete systems to produce virtually every type of breakfast cereal: this capability will be highlighted at Gulfood Manufacturing on the company’s stand S-F29, located in the British Pavilion. Baker Perkins offers a choice of production system for cereals: extrusion and rotary steam cooking. We have also developed the unique Cereal Master™ concept, which allows any cooking or extrusion system to be expanded at any time to extend product range capability as a business grows.

 

New developments in both technologies will be introduced at Gulfood. The latest addition to the extruder range features an extended barrel that enhances the choice of process options for extruded breakfast cereal flakes; this technique combines cooking, cooling and pellet forming in a single extruder to provide a compact system suitable for the majority of extruded flakes.

 

Baker Perkins’ standard twin-screw extruders and co-extrusion systems offer continued product innovation for a wide variety of extruded and co-extruded cereal products. Today’s sophisticated extruders are designed to produce consistent high quality products at efficiency levels that minimize downtime and waste. They are automatically controlled using parameters stored in pre-configured user recipes.

 

The Cook Master™ rotary steam cooker is a high-output batch machine that processes milled or whole grain cereals including wheat, corn, bran and rice. They are used world-wide for traditional high-quality flaked and shredded products, making many leading brands. The latest upgrade includes a completely new slide valve arrangement that improves performance, reduces maintenance and enhances safety. Pressure is maintained more reliably in the vessel during cooking by an air-assisted floating seal that also cleans the underside of the valve as it retracts. The seal can be changed by a single operator without the use of tools in under 10 minutes.

 

The upgraded cooker also features an enhanced control system including a new pressure sensor mounted on the cooker shell that prevents the valve opening while the cooker is under pressure. 

Source: Baker Perkins