APEX Series

Dividing

The extrusion APEX BreadFlex Divider by AMF Flex offers improved scaling accuracy over conventional volumetric dividers with 1% standard deviation for doughs at speeds of 10 – 70 cuts per minute.

Moulding

The APEX Straightline SMP or sheeter, moulder, and panner system delivers 50 – 70 loaves per minute with simple operation, maintenance, and sanitation to produce high-quality, soft tin or panned bread loaves.

Rounding

Designed for high-speed, precision rounding, the APEX Bread Belt Rounder by AMF Flex uses an FDA approved poly-slick rounding belt to prevent dough sticking. The rounder belt is easily integrated with AMF’s extrusion dividers and controlled by the divider’s operator station.

Depositing

The first universal depositor, Unimac Depositor by AMF Tromp is capable of depositing a wide range of cookies, batters, meringues, eclairs, praline, choux-paste, and more for emerging consumer markets.

For filling soft buns or large croissant and pastry products, the APEX Side Injector injects a variety of fillings into the sides of products with up to 14 strokes per minute or 5,000 pieces per hour.

Decorating

Apply an even, shiny and protective coating onto a range of baked goods with the APEX Target Glaze. Suited for producing premium buns, breads, pastries, and cakes, the Target Glaze preserves product moisture and flavor while extending shelf life.

The inline APEX Seeder is designed to deliver consistent coverage of a wide range of decorative dry toppings onto hamburger buns and hot dog rolls. An integrated APEX Water Sprayer & Splitter System provides decorative horizontal splits onto products in the direction of the pan flow as a standard feature with vertical or cross splitting options available to make baked goods visually more appealing.

Sheeting

For efficient production of doughs with up to 55% water absorption, the APEX EX Sheeting Line by AMF Tromp offers maximum product flexibility via extrusion delivering consistent dough sheet thickness to produce any range of products. For low-stress production of consistently moulded products with up to 65% water absorption, the APEX SF Sheeting Line achieves light, open grain structures with maximum flexibility for a wide range of pizzas, flatbreads, or specialty breads.

Laminating

Offering low-stress or extrusion production of consistently moulded pastry products, the APEX Laminating Line achieves accurate dough sheet thickness with repeatable performance and controlled baking parameters. By continuously layering, folding, cutting, and/or stacking dough layers, the APEX Laminating Line delivers a finer cell structure to meet exact product requirements for pastries, croissants, and danish or puff-pastry products.

Complete Make-up Systems

Produce 4,000 to 24,000 buns or rolls per hour with the APEX Series Mini Accupan and Accumax Accupan Systems, designed for bakers looking to automate their dividing, rounding, sheeting, moulding, and panning processes. For bakeries transitioning from a manual to a semi-automatic operation in their combination bread and bun production, the APEX Mini Combo BDR offers a complete make-up solution to create 2400 – 7200 hamburger or hot dog buns per hour and 600 – 1800 bread loaves per hour.

Proofing & Baking

For consistently baked products with proven reliability and superior layout flexibility, AMF BakeTech Continuous Proofer and Oven Systems ensure each pan of product travels one behind the other exposing products to identical conditions delivering the most uniformly baked products.

AMF Den Boer’s Multibake® Tunnel Ovens offer flexibility for a wide range of products while improving energy efficiency, delivering maximum process control and lowering operating costs.

Pan Handling

The APEX Edge Pan Cooler offers a compact, efficient solution for pan cooling while eliminating debris via a pan cleaner brush that loosens seeds or products before tilting the pans on their edge to dump debris.

AMF’s APEX Mechanical Pan or Lid Stacker and Unstacker solution ensures the most gentle stacking and unstacking motion to extend the life of pans and lids. Stacking up to 20 pans per minute and 50 to 70 pans per stack, the fully automated pan stacking system is easily integrated with hand trucks or automated pan storage systems.

Cooling

The APEX Spiral Cooler improves cooling conditions in a continuous flow and is custom-configured to suit a variety of product types and product applications.

Conveying

AMF Convay delivers seamlessly integrated conveying and product handling solutions for moving raw dough, products, pans, baskets, cases, and more from mixer to marketplace. Handling your bakery’s most valuable assets, the APEX conveying and handling systems are designed with simplicity in mind and engineered with easy access, open frames for quick sanitation and maintenance.

Product Handling

The inline APEX Depanner for bread, hamburger, and hot dog rolls gently removes baked products from pans with seamless transfer to APEX product conveyors.

Bread Packaging

Designed for safety and maximum sanitation access, the APEX 60 Band Slicer and APEX 60 Bread Bagger offer the most reliable and versatile, continuous slicing and bagging operation handling from 35 to 60 loaves per minute of varying loaf and bag size.

Bun Packaging

The APEX HS20 Bulk Bun Packer by AMF PackTech is designed for efficient bulk packaging of hamburger and hot dog buns or rolls with improved package tightness and seal integrity up to 20 packages per minute.