Ingredient Handling Equipment

Automated system solutions and material handling of your major and minor ingredients in bulk.

Dunbar Systems is proud of our long relationship with Shick USA for our ingredient handling systems. They provide all levels of ingredient handling for any bakery requirement including:

Bulk Flour Unloading & Storage
In Plant Transfer, Sifting & Scaling

Liquid Ingredient System
Water Blending System

Shick USA Features:

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Bulk Flour Unloading & Storage – Shick USA’s system can unload various types of flour from PD trucks or rail cars to storage silos. The silos include dust collection, high-mid-low level indicators and discharge aeration system to promote flour discharge into the convey system.

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In-Plant Transfer, Sifting & Scaling – Shick USA’s system is designed to transfer flour by pressure from the bulk storage silos to their scale hoppers. The Scale Hoppers include fill valve, aeration discharge kit, butterfly valve and load cell kit.

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Liquid Ingredient Systems - Shick USA's Bulk Liquid Handling systems are available for nearly every liquid bulk handling need. These systems are available with truck or railcar unloading, modified head space environment with nitrogen or UV filtration, in single or multi-tank systems.

Shick USA's Liquid IBC (Tote) Stands are used as a means to store and transfer various liquid ingredients. The totes feed a reservoir from which a pump draws product and distributes it out to one or more use points. When the tote (IBC) is empty, the inline level switch sends a signal to a PLC or local indicator. Typical reservoir design provides at least 15 minutes of changeover time.

Water Blending – Shick USA’s AquaMixer provides precise and quick two or three stream water blending with a variety of local or remote control and batching options.

As a compliment to the Shick Bulk Ingredient Handling Systems, Prater-Sterling’s hand prompt batching controls are designed for accurate minor ingredient weighing. These control panels are used in conjunction with platform scales, mixers on load cells, hopper scales, etc. to sequence an operator through a pre-programmed formula, one ingredient at a time. Once each weighment is satisfied the system will index to the next weigh sequence until the batch is complete, requesting the operator to remove the container, when applicable. Each batch produced may be logged to a disk, hard drive, report printer or Supervisor PC.