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EQUIPMENT

Green power
Gorinchem, The Netherlandsbased AMF Bakery Systems
has introduced the world's ﬁrst
emission-free, hydrogen-fueled
tunnel oven.
While continuing to deliver
consistent, premium product
quality, the Multibake VITA
Tunnel Oven by AMF Den
Boer offers industrial bakers
an effective solution to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions by
99.9% within the baking process.
Europe's leading innovator
of proofer, oven, and handling
technologies, AMF Den Boer has
taken the application of hydrogen
technology in baking from
concept to commercialization,
expanding AMF's complete
portfolio of thermal technologies,
according to the company.
The modular Multibake
VITATunnel Oven utilizes green
hydrogen to activate its burners,
also known as clean hydrogen,
a proven CO2-neutral fuel
that's produced via a renewable
source. Though commercial
ovens typically use natural gas
as the resource for heating the
oven, this new patent-pending
technology by AMF Den Boer
will virtually eliminate CO2
emissions from the oven while
reducing the cost of utilities,
according to AMF.

Den Boer has
raised the bar on
environmentally
friendly ovens.

"We have been manufacturing
tunnel or band ovens for more
than a century," the company
said. "As part of our global
mission, we strive for continuous
improvement in all that we do
and will continue to introduce
breakthrough innovations
like the Multibake VITATunnel
Oven to help our bakery and
food producing customers -
both large and small - meet
sustainability objectives, and
bake the best breads or pizzas."
AMF delivers, installs and
commissions the oven in just
a few weeks and also supports
its customers through the
certiﬁcation and subsidy process,
inclusive of the hydrogen
network installation through our
partner KIWA.
"Bakeries and food producers
with a sustainability agenda,
wanting to reduce the carbon
footprint in their baking process,
are invited to test their products
at our Innovation Center,"
said Remco Bijkerk, executive
product manager for AMF Den
Boer. "We can even retro-ﬁt this
technology into existing ovens
that are already in the ﬁeld.
We are conﬁdent many food
producers will make the upgrade
as we see growing urgency
for sustainability measures in
baking."

SPACE SAVER
Burlington, Vt.-based Blodgett Oven Co's award-winning
Hoodini line of self-contained ventless oven hood systems
helps operators cramped for space ﬁnd a solution that fulﬁlls
all of their needs while not taking up too much room.
Here's how Hoodini works its magic:
x Main fan starts and pulls cooking vapors out of the oven
cavity.
x Heavy particles drop towards the drain. Lighter particles get
pulled towards the condenser.
x Vapor gets drawn over the condenser. As it cools, water
particles from and drop towards the drain.
x Remaining vapor gets super-heated, then passes through
the platinum and palladium coated catalytic converter where
gases are further reduced to carbon dioxide and water.
x These harmless gases are returned to the oven cavity to start
the cycle over again.

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