Compliance support for bakery
19 July 2011 – Frank Roberts & Son, a Cheshire based family bakery, has been working with engineers at Lorien Engineering Solutions for the past two years on an automation project which will secure its position as a cost efficient bread supplier well into the future.
The engineers are now in the final stages of the development to extend the existing process and packaging plant, working with the bakery’s international equipment suppliers.
Tony Reynolds, compliance manager at Lorien, has been working with a bread slicing and bagging machinery supplier in Los Angeles as well as a basket conveying system engineering company in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as assessing the machinery against European Harmonised Standards, Tony modified the guarding and control systems to ensure that the equipment would meet the stringent CE marking legislation.
Reynolds says, “Neither of the international suppliers had any practical experience of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC as required for CE marking, so Lorien stepped in to ensure that the machinery met with all the relevant EU legislation. By preparing the documentation for the CE Technical File for Frank Roberts & Sons, we can ensure that employees are using safe and approved machinery.”
