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Home » Multimedia » Slideshows » On the line with Custom Foods

On the line with Custom Foods

The bakery generates more than 200 SKUs on seven production lines for nearly 50 different customers.

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Diversifying offerings

Source: Ryan Alcantara / Sosland Publishing Co.
Five years ago, pizza dough balls were a small portion of Custom Foods’ ­business. Today, it makes up about 30%.
Mixer

Mixing in flour

Bulk flour is pneumatically conveyed to the mixer; specialty flours for custom formulas are added by hand.
Hopper

Maintaining dough levels

An inductive sensor reads dough levels in the hopper to keep production in motion.
Freezer

Freezing dough

The pizza line’s freezer can run 15,000 lbs of dough per hour.
Rounders

Dough's path to rounders

Pizza dough pieces travel in two directions from the divider toward four conical rounders.
Mixer

Automated production

Automation streamlined efficiency for Custom Foods and increased capacity for its pizza dough production.
Custom Foods team

The team at Custom Foods

Today, in the 48,000-square-foot, SQF-certified facility, Custom Foods makes more than 200 SKUs on seven production lines for about 50 different customers.
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Mixer
Hopper
Freezer
Rounders
Mixer
Custom Foods team
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