Application Note
Major Ingredient Transfer And Weighing For Snack Food Processing
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•Application Note: Major Ingredient Transfer And Weighing For Snack Food Processing
By K-Tron Process Group
The manufacture of baked snack foods generally requires various ingredients to be transfered to mixing and extrusion processes. Depending on the percentage of each ingredient in the blend, materials are usually categorized as majors, minors and micros. In many cases, the transfer and weighing of these majors, minors, and micros can be a manual and tedious process. When increased production demand and lack of overall process efficiency caused a manufacturer of baked snack foods to switch from a manual to a more automated process, they approached the K-Tron Process Group for help.
The manufacturer agreed that utilizing pressure differential (PD) trucks for the bulk delivery of the major materials to their plant would be beneficial. Utilizing a pressure blower, the ingredients are transported from the truck to silos for storage until their usage is required. The ingredients can then be transported via a pressure system and delivered to the mixers in the proper amounts using a closed loop Aeropass system with scale hoppers.
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