Application Bulletin AF14
Quadro Comil
 

PRODUCING BREAD CRUMBS FROM SCRAP BREAD PRODUCTS
 

Background / Requirement

A baking company produces a large amount of scrap product. This scrap product consists of stale or fresh, damaged hot dog and hamburger buns, full and sliced bread loaves as well as English muffins. A Hammermill was being used to make the crumbs. The customer was looking to replace this mill due to its high maintenance, its inability to accept a choke/flood feed and its low capacity.

To grind the various bread products to a uniform crumb size suitable for sale as a packaged bread crumb product. A particle size of 8 mesh to 20 mesh U.S. standard at a rate of 1,000 lb/hr. (450 kg/hr.) was required.

Comil Performance

The Comil was able to accept a choke/flood feed of bread product and produce a continuous discharge of high quality bread crumb at a rate of up to 1,500 lb/hr. (680 kg/hr.) The Comil produced a material with a very low percentage of fines (flour).

Summary

The Comil’s low maintenance, high capacity and sanitary design makes it the ideal mill choice for applications in the food industry.

This Comil has been operating continuously since its purchase trouble-free.

A second Comil purchase is being processed.

Note: Since this report, we have been involved with several ingredient companies where the main intent is to produce bread crumbs not from scrap bread but as regular production.