Snack Food

Ad Jaffa Biscuit Factory, Crvenka
The combination laminator at the new Ad Jaffa biscuit factory produces Petit Beurre and crackers.	The new Ad Jaffa factory incorporates a mix of older equipment from the previous facility and new technology from Baker Perkins.	The hybrid oven supplied by Baker Perkins can bake to any product specification required at the Ad Jaffa facility.
Petit Beurre and crackers will now be added to Ad Jaffa's repertoire with the completion of the new facility.	Products are cooked at high temperatures on entry to the hybrid oven but then dried and coloured further along the production line.

ADM Cocoa, Processing Plant, Pennsylvania
Cocoa beans in pods.	The dry beans ready for processing.	The final article.
The ADM plant can process several types of cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

AIPC Pasta and Noodle Production Plant,
8,000kg/h long goods production line.	8,000kg/h pasta press.	Close-up of the 8,000kg/h pasta press.
Articulated robot arm used in palletising.	Short goods on their way to the dryer.	Form-fill-seal packaging machine.
Dies for extruder.	Part of the long goods production process.

Bubs Godis Confectionery, Jonkoping
The Bubs Godis factory produces 15,000kg of jelly candy per day for the domestic and Scandinavian markets.	The pump heads can deliver flavouring and colouring to a high degree of accuracy.	The facility at Jonkoping used to waste a lot of ingredients (up to 200kg) at each changeover or downtime process.
The new peristaltic pump system has helped the production process.

Cadbury Chocolate Production Operation, Dunedin
Dunedin is on the South Island of New Zealand and has an excellent climate for dairy farming.	The factory produces chocolate crumb and also finished products for the Asia Pacific market.	The expansion of the Dunedin facility is a result of increased demand for chocolate crumb production.
The Dunedin site also plays host to 'Cadbury World', alongside being a major production and distribution centre.	The cacao itself for production of crumb chocolate has to be imported and is then combined with local milk.	The high-speed wrapping machine at the Dunedin site will wrap small products such as Cadbury's Crème Eggs.

Cadbury Schweppes Confectionery Factory, Skarbimierz
The special economic zone where the new factory is based.	Trident gum is one of the major brands produced at the new plant.	Dragee pellet gum is now being packed in blister packs for freshness.
High-speed production of coated pellet gum.	Gum being coated and polished prior to packaging.	Trident gum also comes in liquid filled centre forms.

Campbells Grocery Products Production
Campbells Grocery Products has invested more than £3 million in updating equipment, new R&D facilities, and a new pilot plant, development kitchens and office buildings at its Worksop plant.	The utility consumption monitoring system has the capability to monitor specific production zones or discrete items of equipment.	Campbells has acquired many well known UK brands over the last ten years such as Homepride, Fray Bentos, Batchelors and Oxo.
Campbells uses a system to monitor utility consumption across five centres at its Worksop site. It has a web navigator which enables users to access the system from anywhere on site via the intranet.	The Fray Bentos range of tinned pies is another well-known brand in the Campbells family.

Conrad Schulte & Co Automation Upgrade
Conrad Schulte & Co approached Schüco Design Industrial Automation and explored the possibility of introducing new conveyor technology.	A need was identified in late 2008 to automate some processes and increase production efficiency.	Conrad Schulte & Co employs about 250 people at its Reitberg facility.
The company has retained traditional manufacturing and baking methods.

F Duerr and Sons, Honey Filling Line,
The Model 1000 four head filling machine.	F Duerr is one of the best-known UK brands for preserves.	Honey is a new area for Duerr; the company has also launched a new marmalade containing a honey full of antioxidants.
Riggs Autopack had worked with Deurr for previous lines but this is the first fully automatic line for the company.	F Deurr also produces condiments.

Ferrero Confectionary, Production Plant, Ontario
A computer rendering of the new plant.	The Tic Tac brand will be produced at the plant.	The Kinder Joy brand (promoting its Asterix campaign).
The Ferrero Rocher brand will also be produced at the plant.

Fresh-Pak Sandwich Filling Production Facility,
Fresh-Pak completed the fitting out of phase one of a new production facility for egg mayonnaise in June 2004.	The facility will be one of the largest suppliers of egg mayonnaise to the UK sandwich market (estimated at 200t per week).	Eggs are delivered in bulk pallets and in protective trays; all are logged and fully traceable from delivery to the batch of product.
Egg quality being checked during the egg mayonnaise production process.	The plant after the first two expansion phases.

Great Kitchens Pizzas
The Safeline (PowerPhase PLUS) metal detector system is used in the Great Kitchens Illinois facility to detect and pinpoint all types of metal contamination in products.	Great Kitchens operates from its 40,000ft² manufacturing facility which has four fully flexible production lines.	Great Kitchens can produce 200,000 pizzas per day in a range of different flavours.
The Illinois facility also produces appetisers and deli sandwiches alongside pizza production.

Hormel Food Processing Plant, Dubuque, Iowa
The new Hormel plant will be one of the most environmentally sound food production facilities in the US.	The plant is being constructed on the west side of Dubuque, Iowa.

Kellogg’s Food Processing Plant, Georgia
There are more than 800 food production companies located throughout Georgia.	Kellogg's is one of the leading producers of cereal and other convenience foods.

Kettle Foods Processing Plant, Wisconsin
The building has 18 wind turbines to help offset its electricity use.	The exterior of the facility.	The restored prairie land surrounding the facility.
The construction used sustainable materials as much as possible.

Kettleby Foods, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Turbo Systems were able to design and install a custom solution for Kettleby.	Kettleby Foods make all of the ready meals for major supermarket Tesco in the UK.	The robotic arms of the depositing system save time and increase production levels.
The three-across depositing unit uses nozzles to add piped mashed potato to ready meals.	The three heads deposit mash quickly and efficiently.	A ready-to-cook cottage pie is one of the many meals made for Tesco.

Malt-O-Meal Breakfast Cereal
A range of Malt-O-Meal products.	The Malt-O-Meal facility produces a range of breakfast cereal products, including puffed rice, wheat and oatmeal cereals.	Five production lines now run at the Tremonton plant, including for gun puffing, extrusion and sheeting.
The Malt-O-Meal plant uses soft Idaho wheat in its production of cereals and is the fifth-largest maker of cereals in the US.	The Trementon facility has its own railway spur for raw material delivery.

Nacional Breakfast Cereal Production Facility,
APV Baker coating system (mixing and preparation of coatings).	Barrel coating system from APV Baker.	Computer rendering of the APV Baker Thermoglide Toaster.
Barrel extrusion system.	Cereal extruded shapes.	Barrel extruder.

NECCO Confectionery Manufacturing Plant, Revere, Massachusetts
AMP Rose's Super 42HSF cut wrap machine offers a range of wrapping options.	NECCO's new chainless molder will allow it to produce Sky Bars in miniature sizes.	Using AMP's BR42 batch roller, NECCO can produce 900 pieces of Mary Jane's candies a minute.
Carle & Montanari's chainless molder.	NECCO's popular Canada Mints range.	In 2003, the NECCO plant in Revere became the company's main manufacturing site in Massachusetts.

Nestlé R&D Centre
The R&D centre at Santiago, Chile.	The facility is one of Nestle’s 28 global R&D centres.	The inauguration of the facility took place on 5 January 2010.

Nong Shim Foods Noodle Plant,
The California site contains the Nong Shim corporate headquarters, manufacturing and distribution facility.	The noodle production line is highly automated, with Siemens devices overseeing operation.	Part of the packaging line for the aluminised packeted noodles.
Ramen instant noodles are a Japanese invention, and are inexpensive and easily reconstituted.	Nong Shim Foods is also entering the Mexican market and will invest up to $40m over the next five years.	Nong Shim holds 31% of the savoury snack market in Korea and 72% of the instant noodle market.

Nordgetreide Breakfast Cereal Production Plant,
Nordgetreide GmbH is constructing a new breakfast cereal production plant near Saarbrucken in Germany.	End view of the flaking roll system showing the gap adjustable and temperature controlled rollers.	Low volume double drum cereal coating system.
Side elevation of the facility design showing the production hall and the administration area.	Bioland organic wholemeal cornflakes is one of the product lines to be produced at the new facility.	Raw product discharge chutes; the plant produces a wide range of breakfast cereals.
The discharge system ensures products are handled gently and are therefore not damaged before being packaged.	Discharge into bins is controlled so the fall is only 100mm.	Raw materials infeed station; equipment in the plant was designed and supplied by Robin Engineering Services.
Bucket for food applications with dimpled surface to prevent sticky products from accumulating.

Olympic-Hermes Confectionery Production Plant,
Olympic-Hermes completed a major refit and expansion of its Liossa, Athens, confectionery plant in early 2005.	The microfilm cooker acts by applying a continuous vacuum directly onto a thin, swept film of sugar / sugar-free mixture during cooking.	Olympic-Hermes produces a range of confectionery including toffees, hard candies, chews and jelly products.
Microfilm cooker indirect condenser system.	Sugar-free vacuum evaporator skid.

PepsiCo Frito-Lay Chip Production Facility
The plant uses skylights to maximise natural light.	The plant turns about 500,000 potatoes into potato chips every day.	Solar energy is one of several energy initiatives at the plant.

Pukka Pies
Three Mettler ToledoT10 X-ray machines were installed at the Pukka Pies factory in Leicester.	The user interface on the T10 metal detector is easy to operate with its 15in touch screen display.	The Mettler Toledo X-ray system can detect contaminants down to a size of 1mm, including metal, glass, stone, plastic and bone fragments.
The T10 X-ray machine has increased the level of accurate detection that can be achieved at the Pukka Pies facility and has made production easier, alongside increased product safety.

Reser's Fine Foods, Ready Meal Production Plant
The opening of the new plant.	One of the main raw ingredients for the new plant is potatoes; Topeka, Kansas, is an agricultural area with sufficient potato farms to supply the plant with the volume it needs.	Some of the more popular Reser’s side dishes.
The site prior to building the new Reser’s facility. This is the old Farmland Foods hot dog plant.

Sabra Dipping Company Production Facility
The site of the new building.	The reception area of the new production facility.	One of the many varieties of hummus produced by Sabra.
Sabra now has a 40% market share in the hummus market in the US.

Serious Desserts Manufacturing Facility
Fresh cream desserts such as the Black Forest trifle are produced in a glass bowl; Riggs' equipment ensures accurate depositing of the cream.	A wide range of depositing nozzles and decorative heads on the Serious Desserts production line allows a variety of desserts to be sold by the company.	As well as having the latest technology, the Serious Desserts facility at Llantrisant employs many well-trained staff.
Riggs included a training programme for operation of its equipment for staff at the Serious Desserts facility.	The key lime pie dessert is just one of many that are supplied to the premium supermarket sector by Serious Desserts Ltd.

Simpsons Ready Foods, Sponge Pudding Production Line, Manchester
The microwaveable sponge pudding plastic containers.	Goblin brand meat pudding as produced by Simpsons Ready Foods.	Simpsons also packs sauces in pouches as a contract packager.
The Goblin brand steak and kidney pudding.	Goblin brand hamburgers a great favourite for the UK market.

Sugar Refining Plant, Louisiana
Design rendering by Baisch Engineering of Kaukauna, Wisconsin.	Groundbreaking for Louisiana Sugar Refining’s new plant in Gramercy.	Construction at the site of the new Louisiana Sugar Refining plant site.
Construction is planned to be completed in early 2011.

Superbee Honey Factory,
Superbee has moved into a new facility in Forbes to meet demand for its honey products.	The new factory in New South Wales has provided more space for production, so Honeybee can process around 1,500t of honey per year.	The honey is supplied to Superbee in bulk barrels from beekeepers in the eastern states of Australia.
The Superbee facility was rebuilt at the new site using the equipment from the old Queensland facility.	Superbee blends and filters its honey to produce a superior product.	Honey can be supplied in a number of packed formats. Superbee supplies to supermarkets, the foodservice industry and is to set up a direct retail outlet at the Forbes factory.

Tanfield Food Company
Tanfield Food Company is based in the Northeast of England and sells through UK wide supermarkets.	There is a wide range of meat and vegetarian offerings from Tanfield Food Company.	Ready meals from Tanfield are produced in shelf-stable laminated pouches.
The meals are ready to heat and can be served with a choice of accompaniments, such as rice with chilli.	Tanfield produces tasty ready meals for the premium market.

Tate & Lyle Sucralose Production Facility
Sucralose molecular structure model.	A number of popular drinks use Sucralose as a sweetener, emphasising its importance in the global sweetener market.	Splenda Sucralose is stable to heat, making it suitable for use in baking and cooking.
Splenda sweetener is derived from sugar, making it more popular among sweetener users worldwide.

The Rowse Honey Company Ltd, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
The Rowse product selection not only includes 30 types of honey but also maple syrup.	The bees are the workers behind the process.	The PET line being installed and tested.
Some of the worldwide honeys supplied from the Rowse range.	The Rowse product line also includes the PET squeezable bottle.

Tulkoff Food Products
Horseradish is grown commercially in the US and is harvested between May and July. The new Tulkoff facility has a two million pound storage freezer for the storage of horseradish root.	The horseradish root is processed at the Tulkoff facility using the Chill Mill method, allowing the root to be ground and processed without losing any of its flavour or colour.	Tulkoff supplies its products to the US market where horseradish condiments are incredibly popular.

Zorba Foods Expansion,
Zorba Foods produces dips, spreads and deli fillings for the UK retail and food services market.	The Zorba facility was expanded in October 2006 into the unit next door and gave the company 40,000ft² of extra space for production.	The mezzanine floor in the Zorba facility expansion helped to save space while allowing new equipment to be installed.
The Zorba Foods company was founded in 1976 and began by producing three traditional Greek dips.	Zorba's dips and deli spreads are packaged in formats from 40g pots up to 2kg tubs.

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