Breakfast Cereals
FLOURS MIXING
Flours are dosed into the mixer according to the selected recipes and mixed.
MACHINES FOR THIS PROCESSING
Breakfast Cereals
EXTRUSION, CUTTING AND FLAKING
The single-screw cooker-extruder enables to gelatinize the mixture of flours and to produce dough ropes. These are cut at distance into small cylinders which are processed in a flaking mill, where the traditional flake shape is obtained.
MACHINES FOR THIS PROCESSING
Breakfast Cereals
PRE-DRYING
It is the first drying stage. In order to reduce the surface moisture content, the flakes are heated while passing onto the vibrating floors of the shaking pre-dryer. This process also avoids that they stick together and it includes a tempering stage.
MACHINES FOR THIS PROCESSING
Breakfast Cereals
TOASTING
The flakes are hit by a flow of hot air in two separate stages so as to achieve the right expansion and surface gilding.
MACHINES FOR THIS PROCESSING
Breakfast Cereals
COATING
SYRUP PREPARATION
The unit is composed of two tanks: one for the preparation of the syrup and the other one that serves as a buffer. The coating syrup is then dosed to the coating drum.
COATING
The product is sprayed with syrup inside a coating drum. The rotating speed and the drum inclination vary according to the desired residence time.
MACHINES FOR THIS PROCESSING
Breakfast Cereals
DRYING
A further drying stage is required to crystalize the coating.
MACHINES FOR THIS PROCESSING
Breakfast Cereals
COOLING
After a cooling and stabilizing phase, the product reaches all its essential features.
