Biscuit Manufacturing Machines: More than Mere Ovens Crispy, chunky, creamy or digestive - We all have a favourite kind of biscuit or cookie. Some of us like chocolate coated biscuits and other may like sugar sprinkles on their cookies. Kids usually like biscuits shaped like stars or their favourite animals. Whatever your preference is, there’s a biscuit out there for you! And you probably buy it off-the-shelf at the closest super-market. But how are these bakery products, with such diverse attributes, made available to us in colourful packaging, on a retail scale? There obviously isn’t a pretty maiden or a funny panda, somewhere far away, sprinkling the chocolate chips or whisking the eggs (like the advertisements suggest). The truth is actually far more magical! Industrial scale bakery plants enable biscuit and cookie manufacturers across the world to produce all of kinds of baked goodies by the thousands and package them in attractive packaging, within minutes.
The bakery plants of known confectionery brands are fully-automated as manual handling of ingredients or the finished product raises the risk of wastage and contamination, which would be detrimental to their brands. Biscuit Manufacturing Machines or Cookie Manufacturing Machines are capable of performing some incredible tasks, at high speeds and with great accuracy. These can also be specifically engineered to accommodate the particular needs of biscuit and cookie manufacturers, like shapes, sizes, coating, sprinkling, depositing, etc. For obtaining a particular shape and size, biscuit manufacturing machines equipped with extruders are used to force the malleable dough through dies of the desired shape and size. Extruders may also be used for multi-layered products and centrefilled products. For dough that is hard or not malleable, biscuit manufacturing machines equipped with wire-cutting mechanisms are used. Rotary mechanics are widely used for speeding up the cutting, slitting, moulding, capping and decorating processes. For depositing cream, icing or jam on the extruded dough, biscuit manufacturing machines with batter depositors may be used.