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p.8 Extruding - BW Spring 2013_p.8 Extruding - BW Spring 2013.qxd 13/03/2013 10:09 Page 9 preservation of the dough structure and texture, a fast change over, modular flexibility, a unique ‘hose-down’ cleaning capability and gentle handling of dough with inclusions and aerated mass. Cost, as always, is a concern for the industry and Aasted have taken this into account through the recent appointment of Optimisation Manager Michael Sode who will help clients make their line productivity, whether this be retro-fitting or introducing new technology. robustness German company OKA, with more than perfectly produced biscuits are what the consumer 100 years of history in designing and demands. building machines for the bakery and confectionery industry is a fourth generation family-owned business and its name is synonymous with reliable, robust high tech equipment. The company’s extruder and depositing equipment offer a variety of options with wideranging resultant flexibility. In extruding, OKA covers the complete range of possible options – from simple machines for continuous extrusion of confectionery material up to co-extruding of pastes with very different viscosity in working widths from 100-1,800mm. OKA machines are, by the means of modular and flexible accessories, excellent for later expansion possibilities for different products. For instance, OKA accessories allow movable or When it comes to depositing, extruding and wire rotating nozzle devices, one or multicolour cutting, Haas-Meincke offers a wide range of extrusion, light dough or heavy fruit pastes. equipment. For instance, the V50 system is In the depositing area, OKA’s depositors offer, designed for single, twin or triple depositing, wire even in a dedicated line, later extension possibilities cutting and extruding. for different production types. It can process semi-liquid batters, soft deposited The range and its accessories allow for drop dough, stiff wire-cut dough, chocolate fillings for depositing, wire-cutting, moveable depositing or pralines and even low fat extruded applications. As continuous extrusion – whether using aerated all depositor heads of the V50 have the same pastes, standard depositing dough or difficult design, it is possible to produce products with three choco-chunk dough. different stiffness of wire-cut dough. The Haas Group from Austria is another market Then the 6100 is designed for manufacturing of leader in the world of biscuits, wafers, cones and wire-cut biscuits and cookies at higher capacities. It confectionery. can process dough with inclusions and is suitable for products up to a diameter of 65 mm. Its robust construction makes it possible to support a depositing head containing 1500 kg of dough. With working widths ranging from 6002,000mm, the 6100 features an oscillating wire/knife cutting system working at extremely high frequency for clean cuts. Operation is via a touch screen with full recipe control. With the customer’s needs to the fore, HaasMeincke has a Techcentre (technology centre) in Copenhagen where academically trained test team with a broad range of practical experience within the “Designed for wire-cut biscuits and cookies at higher capacities, it can process dough with inclusions.” BISCUIT WORLD  spring 2013 9