'Unique' cake processing line

The UK's leading manufacturer of depositing equipment for the food industry, Turbo Systems, has completed the design and build of a new twin lane indexing line for manufacturing assorted cream cakes

The UK's leading manufacturer of depositing equipment for the food industry, Turbo Systems, has recently completed the design and build of a new twin lane indexing line for manufacturing assorted cream cakes.

The new system is designed for filling and decorating a wide range of bakery items, such as desserts, celebration cakes, patisserie products, and puddings.

It cuts and slits products then injects sweet fillings, such as chocolate sauce or cream.

Equipped with special nozzles and decorating heads, it deposits toppings, such as fondant or sprinkles, and creates bespoke pattern effects with jam, for example.

In fact any depositing, filling or decorating requirement of cakes can be achieved on the line.

Turbo Systems claim the system is ideal for bakery and food manufacturers looking to automate production and reduce labour costs.

Originally built for one of the UK's leading dessert patisserie suppliers, the processing line can be redesigned to meet individual size and capability requirements.

It has already increased production for one customer by 100% and has seen the company save seven operators per shift.

The system also has a manual loading station where operators can place cakes into clear, plastic trays, ready for wrapping.

And it works in-line with most lid closing machines and wrap labelling applicators.

For Turbo Systems' leading dessert patisserie customer, one side of the line is producing fresh cream chocolate eclairs and the other is making fresh cream and jam finger doughnuts.

The line took approximately four weeks to install, and is now operating at 20 cycles or 40 packs per minute.

On the eclair side the line consists of a twin acetate-dispensing unit for two and four pack products.

It has a manual loading station for inserting eclairs into acetate trays, a twin D102 Turbo Depositor with cream injection heads on rise and fall nozzles, and a twin M102 Turbo Depositor with a hot water circulation system and spreading nozzles that deposit fondant toppings at 40degrees Celsius.

The doughnut line has a manual loading station for placing finger doughnuts into indexing track pallets.

It has an automatic, four-across circular cutting machine for slitting doughnuts, and a plough and guide rail system for opening the slits in doughnuts for the insertion of fresh cream.

A twin D102 depositor and special decorating heads to give roped cream pattern effect, and a twin M102 depositor and piping nozzle to give top jam stripe decoration.

Turbo Systems UK sales manager, Clive Butcher, said: "I believe this type of production line is relatively unique to Turbo Systems.

It has proven to be very successful for our dessert patisserie customer - reducing manual labour costs and improving product quality.

And we can adapt the system to provide bespoke solutions and allow all bakery and patisserie manufacturers to benefit from this type of automation.".

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