What are the advantages of the Formatic Cookie Machine?
Need to speed up your cookie production?
The Formatic cookie machine (also known as a Food Form Fill machine) is an automatic machine used in bakeries and food factories to shape and portion cookie dough before baking. It has several important advantages in cookie production, including:
- High Production Speed: The machine can easily produce thousands of cookies per hour (some models up to about 12,000 pieces per hour). This greatly increases productivity, especially when compared to making cookies by hand.
- Uniform Size and Shape Every cookie is formed with the same size, thickness and weight, giving consistent quality and appearance.
- Variety of Shapes The machine uses interchangeable drums or molds, allowing bakeries to produce many different cookie shapes or designs with one machine – almost any shape imaginable can be custom CNC on the drum. It is even possible to have multiple shapes on one drum.
- Handles Dough with particles (Inclusions) It can process dough containing chocolate chips, nuts, berries, and other particulates without damaging them. Note: it is recommended to work with dried berries when the goal is to maintain the standard cookie colour.
- Versatility: Besides cookies, it can also form biscuits, scones, granola bars, protein bars, and even pet treats – some clients successfully do veggie products, including meatless patties, pierogi filling, potato products, as well as fish products. Multiple hopper options include Straight Hopper, Funnel Hopper, Goose-neck for your different products, staffing and procedural needs. There are also different paddle styles available to accommodate an almost endless range of products.
- Reduced Labor Cost: Because the process is automated, fewer workers are needed, which lowers labor costs and improves efficiency. No more carpel tunnel from hand scooping!
- Easy Operation and Cleaning: The Formatic is designed to be simple to operate and easy to clean. There are several options available that make it even more ergonomic to operate, including an optional foot pedal and, for larger models, automatic papering (meat products) and panning.
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