Imagine how, in one hour, thousands of cookies of the same shape can be baked and preserve their flavor, texture, hygiene, and other quality features without any compromise. Consistency, speed, and customisation are no longer something preferred in the dynamic food industry, but rather a necessity, in the current times. This happens particularly in the cookie manufacturing where precision and scalability are the key to success.
In comes cookie making machines: the backbone of bakery automation. Designed to meet high-output needs and a variety of recipes, high-efficiency cookie production lines, such as the production line by New Era, a trusted cookie making machine manufacturer, change the scope of bakery activities. The appropriate equipment is what fills the gap between artisan processing and bulk processing, so even when you make fine-cut cookies using wires or filled cookie types, the right equipment will save the day.
Let’s explore everything about cookie making machines and how their exceptional features can improve your production lines.
Why Cookie Making Machines Are the Next Revolution in the Bakery Industry?
The era of manual decoration of cookies or making of the dough is long gone. Gone are the days of shaping dough by hand or decorating cookies manually. Today, the manufacturers require:
- Quality without reducing the baking pace
- Every cookie should be of the same size and shape
- Texture customisation, filling, and shape customisation
- Fewer human involvements in food safety
- Accuracy and reproducibility of processes
These qualities allow the process to be incredibly precise and repeatable. Modern cookie making machines are not only bread-baking apparatus but are an ecosystem that provides automation, innovation, and profitability.
Key Components of a Cookie Making Machine
A high-speed cookie manufacturing machine entails the following important elements:
- Dough-feeding Unit: The place where the pre-mixed dough is loaded.
- Forming/ Depositing System: The cookies are shaped with the help of molds, by cutting with wire, rotary, and extrusion molding.
- Baking Tunnel Oven: Offers constant and scalable baking.
- Cooling Conveyor: Gives the much-needed cooling prior to the process of packaging.
- Packaging Process: Good integration between production and designs of wrapping and packaging systems.
The lines of New Era are modular, and a manufacturer can select and adapt the systems according to the capacity, cookie type, and the available space.
Types of Cookie Making Machines
1. Wire-Cut Cookie Production Line
Highly suitable with butter cookies, shortbread, chocolate chip, and center-filled cookies. The mechanism used in this line is a wire-cut that accurately changes and cuts adhesive or soft types of dough.
The Wire Cut Cookie Production Line by New Era sets a standard by providing high speed of production, and it is also adjustable to different stroke settings and die plates to accommodate different designs.
You can use this line to make more than 1,500 kg/hr of various gourmet cookies with minute consistency levels.
2. Cookie Production Line of Rotary Moulding
Best used on cookies with lots of fat, those in molded shapes, and ornamental patterns. The dough can be given a complex design by this system through the use of a rotary drum that gives it a perfect shape. This means that branded cookies or cookies with specific themes can be done.
New Era’s Rotary Moulding Line is precise to have a fine designed to produce minimal wastage in dough. The production of biscuits from rotary moulding can be done easily, as it attains 120 rows per minute.
3. Wire Cut and Depositor Combined Line
The line best suits top bakeries that require a variety of cookies in a single machine, which include drop, swirl, filled cookies, and wire-cut cookies.
It is a multi-purpose line that is flexible. It allows quick recipe and design changeovers, which are suitable for companies that have to handle seasonal flavors or a variety of products.
4. Filled Cookie Manufacturing Line Center Filled
New Era Center Filled Line comes with twin extrusion and filling nozzles that provide perfect center-to-shell ratios. It also provides multi-color dough colours in order to be attractive. This line is apt for biscuits with chocolate, jam, cream, or fruit fillings.
This production machine is quite fast, so you can multiply the production of your choco-center cookies and meet rising demand with minimal formulation changes.
The Right Way of Selecting the Ideal Cookie Production Line
On the way to choosing the best cookie making machine, keep in mind:
- Production Capacity: What is the kg/hour or cookies/minute?
- Cookie Variety: Single or multicooking possible?
- Floor Availability: modular or small-space design?
- Automation Requirements: Semi-auto or an integrated line?
- Future Upgrades: Does the line have the capability of expanding with your brand?
Cookie Making Machines: Technological Innovations
Cookie production is about to see a new dawn of intelligence with AI-aided quality management, IoT maintenance monitoring, and vision-based sorting control systems. In an actual sense, the AI market worldwide in food & beverages created a shift, and is expected to reach USD 84.75 billion (increasing by more than 39.1%) by 2030. This has seen this swift growth, as the industry seeks to go automated, accurate, and avoid waste.
At New Era, our next-generation lines will translate the technology into these next steps: implementing machine-vision quality control modules, real-time sensor alarms, and predictive analytics, to allow bakeries to move effortlessly into Industry 4.0.
Conclusion
Cookie making machines are no longer considered an upgrade, but a mandatory need for the forward-thinking bakery business. Regardless of whether you are a new entrant into the business and wish to break into the packaged cookie business or you are a multinational organization scaling into several regions around the world, New Era has the perfect combination of cutting-edge solutions that you require in terms of technology, quality, and reliability.
New Era has a team of experts who help clients in planning the layout, optimizing the cost, and advising on the ROI of any project.
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FAQs
- How long do cookies making machines last?
The cookie production lines of New Era have a life of around 10 to 15 years or more depending on the maintenance.
- Is it possible that the machine could take various cookie dough mixes?
Yes, majority of New Era machines are capable of accommodating a broad range of dough with a textural difference such as sticky, soft and hard varieties.
- What is the time frame of installation and commissioning?
The machine set up can vary range between 2 to 8 weeks depending on a machine type and customisation.
- Does the machine include operator training?
Absolutely. New Era gives full scale training, manuals and support to all installations worldwide.
