Spooner Vicars is a manufacturer of high quality production lines and equipment for the food industry, processing: Biscuits, Crackers, Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Pies, Cereal, Pet Foods and Potato Snacks.
Spooner Vicars offers High Speed Dough Mixers, Dough feed systems, laminators, Sheeting Lines, Wire Cutters, Moulders, Sprinkling devices, Ovens (gas fired, direct forced convection, indirect forced concetion and hybrid) and cooling conveyors.
Mixing
The High Speed Sprag Mixers are used extensively for the production of potato snack, crackers, hard biscuits, rotary, wire cut and pet food biscuit dough… The Unique ‘Sprag’ beater design has greatly reduced the mixing times on most types of doughs. In most cases up to 40% reductions have been achieved.
Because of the beater design it also allows the mixing of small batches in larger mixers without loss of the mixing efficiency, which gives the machine even more flexibility.
- The mixing drum can be arranged to suit various discharge angles up to 170° depending on the customer’s individual requirements.
- The curved entablature which forms the top of the mixer can be supplied to suit various options of dry and liquid ingredient feeds.
Dough Feed Systems
Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems are able to offer standard or bespoke Dough Feed Systems to suit specific or varied product dough’s, factory disposition and whether fully or semi-automatic operation.
- Fully or semi-automatic production lines for a wide variety of products.
- Suitable for many different types of soft, hard, cracker, speciality, Baked Potato doughs and the like.
- The dough is visible throughout the ‘forming’ processes, enabling the operator to control and produce the optimum product.
- Capacity to suit your immediate and future needs.
- • Add unit machines to existing lines.
A typical dough feed system includes 2 Roll Dough Feeding, with integral Low Level Tipper, Flared Hopper for storage of the batch of dough prepared by the Mixer, 2 Roll Dough Feed Unit, Inclined Dough Feed Conveyor (with or without Metal Detector & Reject system) removal Kibbler or Rotary Cutter attachments to suit respective ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ dough’s.
Soft Dough Forming
Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems ProSeries Forming Machinery combines product flexibility with high speed accurate production. Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems Pro Series Rotary Moulders and High Speed Wire Cut / Rout Press / Co-Extruder have been designed to meet operator’s demands for a user friendly machine combined with excellent performance. The latest generation of Machinery offer unrivalled hygiene, flexibility & accuracy for the cookie, biscuit & pet food sectors.
We can offer standard or tailor-made solution that will permit flexible, effective and most important of all, profitable production.
- Fully or semi automatic production lines for a wide variety of products.
- Suitable for many different types of soft, hard, cracker, speciality, Baked Potato doughs and the like.
- The dough is visible throughout the ‘forming’ processes, enabling the operator to control and produce the optimum product.
- Capacity to suit immediate and future needs.
Laminating & Sheeting Line
Spooner Vicars offers various formats of Forming Machinery which combines product flexibility with high speed accurate production. The laminating and sheeting lines which can be either fully automatic with recipe driven control systems or semi automatic. The machines are suitable for many different dough types from the soft, hard and tough cracker doughs.
Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems ProSeries Forming Machinery combines product flexibility with high speed accurate production. For Laminated Biscuits and Cracker types Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems has a renowned reputation for providing reliable, high speed precision machinery for Laminated and Enzyme Crackers, Hard and Semi Sweet Biscuits and other products such as Garibaldi and Breakfast Pouches.
The ProSeries Sheeting Lines are specifically designed to give accurate sheet thickness, reliable performance and the correct controllable baking conditions to give a consistent and reliable product quality.
Hygeine and maintenance demands are a critical part of our design criteria with every effort made to keep labour and time requirements to the minimum. Special attention has been taken to product changeover times as any delay will affect the line profitability.
Baking
A wide range of ovens designs are available to suit the customer product and capacity needs. The Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems range of ovens are designed provide the optimum conditions for quality baked products. A number of options are available to enhance the performance and meet the individual needs of each customer.
They are of a modular design to ensure quality standards are maintained and provide a rapid and efficient installation. Each module is constructed from corrosion resistant high temperature material in 2 or 3 meter modular lengths. These modules are then assembled together on site to form the oven. The oven is split into suitably sized zonal lengths of between 8 and 18 meters to create the correct number of zones for optimum baking profile control.
Spooner Vicars offers Direct Gas Fired Tunnel Ovens, Forced Convection Tunnel Ovens, Hybrid Tunnel Ovens and Bakery Tunnel Ovens.
Cooling & Product Handling Systems
Spooner Vicars offers a wide range of Post Oven product Cooling & Handling Systems which are available to suit the product line and factory requirements.
Spooner Vicars Bakery Systems have a world class reputation in the design, manufacture and installation of integrated modular built conveyor systems for the Biscuit & Snack Food Processing Industry.
This involves design & supply of bespoke Product Cooling & Handling Conveying Systems tailored to meet the customer needs. These are specifically designed to give appropriate Cool to Bake Ratio, handle specific Biscuit, Cracker & Cookie type products, customers factory layout, and arrange for the products to be suitably presented to the Packaging area of the Line for packaging manually or automatically.
More Midera Brands
PacProInc
Produces high capacity interleaving, stacking and packing solutions for the food industry. The systems are sanitary, washdown-duty and made in stainless steel.
Colussi Ermes
Colussi Ermes design and manufactures customized washing systems and washing solutions for industrial production, including industrial bakery production.
Baker Thermal Solutions
Baker Thermal Solutions delivers complete industrial baking systems. Conveyor ovens, tray ovens, tunnel ovens, proofers, coolers, product conveyors, relidders and more
Stewart Systems
Stewart Systems customer adapted and complete automated lines for High Volume Bread- and Bun Industry. Know for their highly efficient conveyorized proof and bake systems.