New laboratory-scale depositor
In a bid to enhance its product and process development capability for the confectionery industry, Baker Perkins has installed a new laboratory-scale depositor in its Innovation Centre. The machinery can handle three components of hard or soft candy simultaneously.
The Baker Perkins Innovation Centre is a resource where customers develop new products and processes, produce samples for test marketing, and conduct feasibility trials. The new depositor can make sophisticated confectionery with features such as stripes, swirls, centre-fillings and layers. Capability includes hard candy; lollipops; and soft candies including jellies, gums, toffee, caramels and fondants.
The depositor enables full control over the production parameters, and enhanced hygiene features improve operation, cleaning and maintenance. Both the depositor and cooking equipment in the Innovation Centre replicate the procedure of a full-size plant. Results can be scaled up accurately for research, product development and test marketing purposes.
