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Baker Perkins is launching the new ServoForm Duo cooking and depositing system to produce both hard candies and lollipops on a single production plant. This plant is based on Microfilm cooking and ServoForm depositing machines acknowledged as proven market leaders in both the hard candy and lollipop sectors.
High quality products can be made in a range of outputs, up to 3,125 pieces per minute of hard candy, and 1,125 lollipops per minute. One, two or three coloured products are possible, with a multi-component capability providing centre-filled, striped and layered possibilities for both hard candies and lollipops.
A single Microfilm cooker feeds the ServoForm Duo depositor, supplied with appropriate mould sets for candy and lollipops. Rapid interchangeability maximises output potential.
Two ejection stations are provided: hard candy travels via a cooling tunnel to the ejection point, lollipops through a patented, automated stick feeding, placing and detecting unit.
Baker Perkins was the first company to develop lollipop depositing technology to give higher quality and greater production flexibility than traditional die forming. The ServoForm Duo concept retains all the features of these systems, designed specifically for the lollipop market, and now in use in Europe, India and Asia.
Lollipop systems are based on the Baker Perkins hard candy depositing concept that is the acknowledged market leader, with over 400 plants at work throughout the world.
The newly introduced ServoForm platform provides depositing capability offering greater quality and flexibility than alternative methods. The nature of the process creates complete control throughout the system, leading to extremely high dimensional shape and weight accuracy; negligible scrap rates and efficient wrapping; plus low maintenance and maximum hygiene.
Greater flexibility and process control are created by the adoption of servomotors as standard to control ServoForm depositor movements. Three axis control is standard, enabling deposit weights and fillings to be changed at the touch of a button, giving the operator complete mastery of the process, including ‘on-the-run’ fine tuning of operation
Servos are under the control of a PLC, and a touch-sensitive screen that gives full process visualisation, recipe management, alarm handling and data logging. The system can be integrated with upstream and downstream equipment, or into a SCADA plant supervisory system.
Higher output is another key benefit, achieved by mounting drive components on the machine frame rather than the depositing head. This unique ‘underband’ design reduces the inertia of the head, allowing a higher depositor running speed. It also contributes to improved hygiene and easier maintenance.
The introduction of a totally self-draining hopper ensures an improved product flow, with reduced hopper retention time.
The ServoForm Duo line also includes the newly upgraded ‘Microfilm’ confectionery cooker which delivers greater product variety, superior quality and higher operational efficiency than traditional cooking methods. These advantages are seeing Microfilms increasingly used for low boilings such as toffee, as well as hard candy.
PLC control is now standard with touch-sensitive HMI screens for operator control. Features include on-screen trending of process parameters that helps operators improve real-time process control, and provides information for trouble-shooting and longer-term process development. Recipe control and system alarm management are included.
For more information
Go to www.bakerperkinsgroup.com/duodepositor
Contact us
Or call our Customer Services on:
+44 1733 283000 fax +44 1733 283008
Email on bpltd@bakerperkinsgroup.com
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