Bakery & Baked Goods
Gentle handling and precise wrapping for sticks-like pretzels, meat sticks, cookies, wafers, chocolate, confectionery, bakery and consumer goods, and dry baked goods. Flow wrapping and weighing systems that maintain product integrity at high speeds.
Baked goods are made to be fragile and sold to arrive intact. A bakery packaging line is judged on how gently it moves product, from the cooling tunnel all the way to the case.
Most of that protection is won in the run between the cooling tunnel and the pack, at the transfers, the collation and the infeed to the wrapper. Design that path well and product is packaged looking the way it left the oven.
Stack and wrap, or weigh and bag?
A stacked bar flow wrapped into a rigid pack protects the product well and presents as a premium item. The collation is where the engineering earns its keep, and LoeschPack builds the buffering, feeding, distribution and collating equipment alongside the wrapper, so the stack arrives neat, correctly counted and at pitch.
Weighing a loose quantity into a bag sets up quickly and easily handles product variation. How the product enters the bag is a configuration input, so drop height and transfer methods are specified around the delicate properties of the product.
What protects the product
- A short, direct path from the oven to the pack, with every transfer designed for gentle handling.
- Gentle collation, so the stack reaches the wrapper neat, correctly counted and intact.
- Buffering that absorbs surges upstream, so the line holds a steady rate across the shift.
- A wrapper fed at a steady pitch, which is how a flow wrapper holds its output and its pack quality together.
Where Piepenbrock Packaging starts
With the product itself: diameter, thickness, weight and how it behaves in handling. Send Piepenbrock Packaging a sample and the pack you need, and we will work the line back from the wrapper with LoeschPack and Hastamat. Cookie, biscuit and wafer packaging covers the fragility handling in detail.
Machines for Bakery & Baked Goods
- FHW Horizontal Flow Wrapper LoeschPack's proven continuous-motion flow wrapper for sheet and bar products, running at up to 1,500 products per minute with a seal that holds across the long axis.
- FHW-S Horizontal Flow Wrapper LoeschPack's flagship high-speed flow wrapper for chocolate bars, biscuits and bakery, engineered for up to 2,100 products per minute. Paper and plastics on one platform, changed at the touch of a button.
- TBS-2 Automatic Tray Loader LoeschPack's pressureless, gripper-free tray loader, placing product upright, flat or shingled at up to 800 products per minute.
- CMT Top-Loading Cartoner LoeschPack's top-loading cartoner, erecting cartons and loading collated product from above, configured to the carton styles, counts and patterns your line runs.
- LOMATIC Feeding and Distribution System LoeschPack's flexible feeding and distribution system presents product to the wrapper oriented, evenly spaced and without surges.
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Common questions
- Where does our breakage come from?
- Most of it is recoverable, and usually without replacing the packaging machine. Damage typically traces to transfers, accumulation and lane changes ahead of the wrapper or bagmaker, which are the points a well designed line controls. Piece size, weight and the path from the cooling tunnel set how gentle the handling has to be. Tell PPT USA where you see damage and we will work the line back with LoeschPack or Hastamat and specify the handling that protects the piece.
- Fixed count or sold by weight?
- Both routes are well served, and the choice sets the architecture. A fixed count points to collation and flow wrapping, where LoeschPack builds the feeding and wrapping equipment as one system. A pack sold by weight points to Hastamat multihead weighing into a vertical bagmaker, which changes over quickly across SKUs. Your count tolerance, piece variation and target output decide which one fits. PPT USA can size both against your volumes and confirm the configuration with the manufacturer.
Packaging bakery & baked goods?
Tell us the product and the pack you need. We will come back with the architecture that fits, a realistic sustained-output figure and what is worth proving on a sample first.
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