Food Industry

Baking

The baking industry is full of powders and granules.

Flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, additives and preservatives, to name just a few.

For baking ingredient manufacturers and large industrial bakeries, there are many operational challenges that large quantities of dry ingredients like these present.

Keeping these potentially combustible powders inside the process equipment is a key priority that BFM® fitting understands.

BFM® used to feed yeast for baking from silo to a big bag station.

Advantages of BFM® fitting in the Bakery Industry

In the baking industry, as with any food plant, keeping your production environment sanitary and your end product hygienic and food-safe has to be a priority.

Making sure your ingredients don't become a hygiene risk by leaking or building up inside transition points between pieces of equipment like hoppers, sifters, and mixers can be a real challenge.

Traditional flex connectors or sleeves are often fastened by clamps that aren't able to fully contain fine powders.

Find out how the BFM® fitting system design keeps your plant cleaner.

Flour, baking powder, flavourings, sugar, preservatives... baking ingredients are predominantly powders, and it's an industry with a high explosion risk profile because of this.

The safety issues posed by powders becoming built up on external surfaces is serious - there are many industry examples of devastating combustible dust explosions that could have been prevented through simple dust mitigation controls.

So how do you reduce your risk of combustible dust explosions?

Ensuring sanitary food-safety and full health and ongoing safety compliance throughout your plant is a constant challenge.

Knowing that all of your equipment - including your flex connectors - complies with international food and health & safety requirements is important.

BFM® fitting Seeflex 040E connectors are chosen by major multi-national food manufacturers because they are 3A, FDA, EU and ATEX approved. They're also Halal and Kosher certified.

Find out more about our compliance & certification.

Multi-national bakery saves over £40,000 in lost production

“BFM® is such a simple idea which translates into real benefit in our plant. It is impossible to fit BFM® wrong and there is no build up, so weighing problems are a thing of the past, saving us a small fortune. They are also 100% dust tight which reduces our cleaning bills.”

- Maintenance Manager

(Case Study courtesy of BFM® Distributor ProSpare, UK)

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Bakery Industry Applications

BFM® fittings outperform traditional hose clamp systems in virtually every processing application and condition. Below are some common process applications that are challenging for flexible connectors in bakery processing.

The constant movement on sifters and sieves puts stress on flexible connections between equipment, and often causes problems like poor sealing, leaks and failures.

Learn more about BFM® on sifters and sieves.

Metal Detector applications can be a challenging environment for traditional clamped connector systems because steel cannot be in near proximity to the detector.

See why BFM® is used with metal detectors.

Proper cleaning of your pipes and in-line fittings is important during CIP, and having a flexible connector that can handle the chemicals and won't leak is essential.

Watch a BFM® fitting in action during CIP.

Powder processors often operate equipment under negative pressure to avoid leaking product out of machinery, but you need to ensure your connectors seal properly too.

Find out why BFM® is ideal for vacuum.

If you operate under positive pressure, we know keeping your product inside your process brings all sorts of challenges, usually around dust control and connector failure.

See how BFM® handles operating pressure.

Static dissipative connectors like the BFM® fitting range will help reduce the chance of spark discharges occurring that can potentially ignite combustible dust explosions.

Learn more about BFM® and Electrostatic Build-Up.

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Bakery brands using BFM® fitting

Whether it's manufacturing core ingredients like flour, sugar and yeast through to baking the end product, leading food industry processors all around the world look to BFM® fitting products as the flexible connector of choice.