Baked Goods

Cookies, crackers and pastries sold by weight drop from a weigher into a formed bag, and the seal has to close clean on every cycle or the pack leaks on the shelf. Our Mars Series VFFS packaging machines form, fill and seal from rollstock with servo-driven controls, smart film tracking and touchscreen operation, so a recipe change between a delicate shortbread and a rugged cracker takes minutes rather than a shift. The MarsCompak runs to 50 packs per minute and the MarsRapid to 180, covering bakery packaging machine requirements from a single shift up to continuous production.

Cookies, pastries, muffins, croissants and bars each ride the infeed differently, and a wrapper set for a rugged bar will crack a decorated shortbread on the way through. Our Pack Series flow wrapping machines feed, wrap and seal gently, with intelligent motion control, hygienic construction and film settings tuned to keep waste down. The Pack 1000 HS runs to 350 packages per minute and accepts product up to 15.7 inches wide, which covers the long items narrower cookie packaging machines turn away. For flat or decorated pieces the Pack500i loads from above instead of pushing product through a lug infeed.

A resealable stand-up pouch costs more per unit than film off a roll and earns it back in shelf presence, which is why cookies, pastries, baking mixes and bread snacks increasingly sell that way. Our premade pouch filling machines pick, open, fill and seal a ready-made bag rather than forming one. The RotoBagger runs to 55 bags per minute, the EcoBagger Pro to 30, and the EcoBagger Mini to 20 in a footprint sized for a first move off hand bagging. All three hold fill accuracy tight enough to protect freshness without overfilling every pack.

Most cookie breakage happens at the weigher, not at the bagger. Standard buckets tumble product the way a rugged cracker can take and a decorated shortbread cannot, so the damage is done before the bag ever forms. Our EliteWeigh multihead weigher runs to 200 weighments per minute holding 0.1 to 0.5 gram accuracy, and a gentle-handling configuration slows the drop for fragile bakery product. AISI304 buckets and chutes lift out without tools, which is what makes an allergen changeover between a nut-topped biscotti and a plain butter cookie something you can document.