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can even control when changeovers
causes a gap on the belt between
products," he said. "You can shut the
dampers and then run without heat.
This also helps save on energy costs."
INCREASING FLEXIBILITY. The
electronic controls Mr. Knost referred
to also play a major role in making
tunnel and tray ovens flexible for baking a wide variety of products.
In fact one of the ovens offered by
Werner & Pfleiderer that is still fairly
new to the US market, according
to Pat Kennedy, president, Kemper
USA, Shelton, CT, a subsidiary of the
WP Bakery Group, is the Megador,
a multilevel tunnel oven. This oven
is available with either thermal-oil
heating or cyclothermic radiation.
The Megador has up to eight different levels and can be feed by two
production lines, allowing companies to bake multiple products in a
single oven at the same time.
Processors want flexible ovens
that have a wide baking range and
capacity, according to Mr. Zaleski.
"New snack products may or may
not have staying power in the market, and new product development
is risky especially if an oven is purchased specifically for that item," he

added. "Manufacturers want a fallback position where they could bake
other products on the line."
The baked foods market is demanding product variety more than
ever. "Bakers are looking for production flexibility that will allow them to
broaden their production capability
to meet the needs of a more diversified market," Mr. Gore said.
Many bakers today are baking
several products on the same line to
minimize the risk of their investment,
according to Ms. Pedersen. "This demands a high level of flexibility from
the oven, which has to make quick

changes in baking profiles from one
product to the next," she said. "With
a precise control of airflows, heat
distribution and moisture level inside the DFE Meincke ovens, this is
actually done very easily."
EXPANDING OPTIONS. AMF has
unveiled new ovens in the past five
years, allowing it to integrate new
technology into its current oven designs instead of rehashing 40-yearᮢ The latest generation of this indirect-fired tunnel oven bakes with significantly reduced energy
consumption compared with previous models.
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