BCH provide a wide range of confectionery kitchens in our portfolio capable of producing a wide variety of products including liquorice, starch gels, jam, jellies, extruded fruit, fondants, candies and caramels.
Confectionery Kitchens
Used for pre-mixes for a wide variety of our process systems. Perfect for mixing before cooking syrup or as a premix blending system. Ensuring precise weight control of ingredients and maintaining optimal temperature control throughout the process.
Products
- Liquorice
- Syrup
- Extruded Fruit
- Jam
- Starch Gels
- Fondant
- Caramel
Pre-Mix System
Made from stainless steel, this mixing vessel is mounted on load cells for automatic weight control of ingredients, as well as automatic and manual loading of dry and liquid masses.
The vessel is steam jacketed for automatic temperature control and is equipped with the appropriate mixing equipment for precise and homogenous mixing of ingredients.
Delivery to the next process can be pumped, gravity, or by vacuum matched to the process and can also fitted with a product screening facility.
- Stainless steel mixing vessel
- Mounted on load cells for automatic weight control of ingredients
- Automatic water metering
- Steam jacket for automatic temperature control
- Contra-rotating agitator
- Automatic discharge valve
- Valve, pipework and pumping arrangements
Batch Cooking
Made from stainless steel, this machine is typically steam jacketed and can cook under atmospheric, pressure or vacuum conditions as required by the process.
Cooking operations can be to a weight, time, temperature or total sugar solids (Brix).
An agitator provides continuous mixing of the product.
Continuous Cooking
Our technical team will design a process matched continuous cooking system suitable for cooking the product to the highest quality and efficiency.
BCH manufacture scraped surface cookers (Viscotator) for cooking at low, medium and high temperatures and also under pressure conditions.
Our Maxivap cookers are designed to cook product under vacuum conditions where moisture is removed from the mass to achieve the required conditions.
A high-speed agitator provides continuous movement of the product.
Holding Vessel
Made from stainless steel, this machine is jacketed with steam or hot water and will transfer the finished product on to the next process on demand to ensure an efficient and continuous process.
An agitator provides mixing of the product and automatic discharge valves are also fitted with a product screening facility.
- Stainless steel holding vessel
- Hot water jacket (for automatic temperature and level control)
- Valve, pipework and pumping arrangements
- Agitator
- Automatic discharge valve (with product screening facility)
- Automatic level contro
Rework Processing System
The optional Rework Processing system is made from stainless steel and is designed for the processing of start-up / shut-down waste.
Mounted on load cells for automatic weight control, the option of steam or hot water jacket for precise temperature is also included.
An automatic discharge valve is fitted for easy disposal/emptying.
- Mounted on load cells for automatic weight control
- Hot water jacket
- Agitator
- Automatic discharge valve