Food — snacks
Snack processing
powder systems.
The difference between batches of the same snack is grams of seasoning per kilo — a powder dosing problem wearing a flavour label.
In brief
Snack production handles powders at two points: base ingredients (flours, starches) into the process, and seasonings onto the product. TLG builds both — bulk ingredient transfer at line rates, and consistent seasoning delivery to applicators where dosing accuracy is the flavour specification.
The powder problem
Process requirements.
Seasoning systems fail small and taste big: an applicator starved for thirty seconds ships bland product. Loss-in-weight feeding, level-managed applicator supply and contained transfer keep flavour on spec and the plant clean — seasoning dust is the stickiest housekeeping problem in food.
- Base
- Flour and starch transfer at extruder / fryer rates
- Seasoning
- Loss-in-weight supply to applicators
- Containment
- Extraction at transfer — oily dusts cling
- Changeover
- Fast flavour swaps, tool-free cleaning
The process — stage by stage
The snack processing line, stage by stage.
Every stage below is equipment TLG designs and builds — follow any of them into the solutions range.
- 01
Raw material intake
Sacks and bulk bags enter the line contained — dust captured at the tip point, foreign objects screened out.
- 02
Conveying
Transfer matched to the powder — pneumatic phase chosen for friability, mechanical for short controlled runs.
- 03
Raw material & finished goods storage
Silos with discharge engineered to the powder's measured flow properties — storage that empties reliably.
- 04
Automated batching
Every ingredient weighed to recipe on isolated load cells, majors to minors, with the batch record generated automatically.
- 05
Mixing
Blenders matched to the recipe's shear tolerance, with discharge designed so the blend survives to the pack.
- 06
Foreign material removal
Magnets hold ferrous wear metal; check-sieves reject oversize — placed where HACCP analysis puts them.
- 07
Dust extraction
Capture at every transfer point, ducted to reverse-jet filtration — hygiene, compliance and recovered product.
- 08
Automation & controls
One control system sequencing the whole line — recipes, interlocks and records included.
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