Four Lindor mixers for Balaji Wafers
Balaji is the second largest producer of potato crisps in India. The Balaji Group uses Lindor gentle touch mixers for savoury snacks.“ We are always looking for new technologies to improve our production”, says Balaji Group director, Keyur Virani.“ Lindor has managed to transform our mixing into a more hygienic and efficient process."
Balaji Lindor mixer
Due to increasing market demand, the Balaji plant in Rajkot( Gujarat) required modernisation and expansion of its production capacity. Lindor’ s Indian partner Food Processing Technologies( FPT) has maintained close ties with the Balaji Group for many years, and together they explored how best to improve the factory’ s production process.
Director Virani soon became convinced that Lindor’ s Gentle Touch Mixer was the best solution, giving the greatest reliability for taste consistency and quality.
The importance of mixing for extrusion
It is essential for extrusion that water is added uniformly to a homogeneous mixture of raw materials.
Lindor mixers are ideal, because in addition to mixing the dry raw materials, they also allow for optimal water distribution over the moving product bed without causing any dust.
Dust, which causes loss of quality for several reasons in extrusion, must be prevented at all costs.
The mixer is fitted with injection lances that have process-specific nozzles, to distribute the water very delicately over a moving product bed, resulting in a homogeneous mixture of a high and consistent quality.
The return on investment of a Lindor mixer is very quick, because of its quality advantages and significantly higher productivity.
At least six batches per hour, with a batch weight of 400 to 500 kilos.
Hygiene and low costs
The machine surfaces are hygienically treated both internally and externally using the Viwateq ® water jet finish. Because of this, the surface is beautifully smooth and easy to clean. This minimizes the risk of microbial retention. This is important because the mixture of flour and water is an excellent breeding ground for microbes. The mixer has a retractable inlet and outlet. This makes the mixer, and in particular its seals, even easier to clean.
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