Would your wheat-based snack production lines benefit from Continuous Mixing? Explore the innovative equipment from Exact Mixing to improve the consistency of your products, lower your labor costs, and simplify your mixing process.
Founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1994, Exact Mixing, now a Reading Bakery Systems brand located in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, is the leading supplier of Continuous Mixing systems for the food industry. Our knowledgeable team has solved complex mixing challenges for customers across the globe.
About Continuous Mixing
Continuous Mixing is the process of continuously metering ingredients directly into a mixing chamber and generating a continuous stream of mixed product at the exit of the mixer. This results in even dough hydration, better integration of minor ingredients, and eliminates the dough variables caused by batch mixing. One mixer can feed multiple lines and can be operated with less labor and energy than batch mixing.
Advantages of Continuous Mixing
- Improves reliability and repeatability
- Eliminates surface imperfections
- Accommodates “within spec” flour variations
- Maximizes water absorption—reduces cost of ingredients, improves yield
- Eliminates dough contamination
- Quick and easy sanitation
- Reduces labor and peak energy demand
- Eliminates mixer loading errors
- Allows consistent time between mixing and further processing
- Easy to learn and operate
Exact Mixers for Wheat Snacks
Cookies, Snacks, Fillings & Icings: The MX Continuous Mixer, a twin screw mixer, is our most versatile model and is suitable for many types of products, including snacks, cookies, pizza, pretzels, muffins, cake-style donuts, icings, batters, peanut butter, pie fillings, and other fat/sugar mixtures. This mixer offers dough production rates up to 8,000 kg/hour.
Crackers & Wheat-Based Products: Specifically designed for gentle kneading and mixing of low- to mid-absorption, fully developed doughs, our EX Continuous Mixer is a single-screw mixer that is ideal for pretzels, crackers, sweet goods, pie crusts, pet treats, and a variety of other wheat-based snacks.. This mixer offers dough production rates up to 7,500 kg/hour.
Cookies & Other 2-Stage Products: The LDX Continuous Mixer is well-suited for most types of cookies and other applications where ingredients are blended before adding flour. In the first mixing stage, all minor ingredients can be combined with some of the flour, and the fat can be cut in. In the final stage, the remaining flour is added to create the final dough. This mixer offers dough production rates up to 9,000 kg/hr.
What Does an Exact Continuous Mixing System Include?
A complete Continuous Mixing System includes the mixer, blender, materials handling and ingredients metering equipment, and a control system that monitors and distributes product between them.
We design our mixers with Loss-in-Weight technology – the most accurate feeding technology available. And all metering and mixing procedures are monitored and initiated by the control system so the operator can always confirm and modify as needed.
To explore which Exact Continuous Mixing equipment would be best-suited for your wheat-based snack production lines, visit with our team at the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, USA. Get in touch with us at (01) 610.693.5816 or contact us online.
