3 Features That Improve Your Baking Mix Filling Equipment

When you need to find an auger that’s suitable for your baking mix filling application, choosing the right partner for your equipment is essential.

Since baking mixes can present various filling challenges for their desired packaging applications, it's important to make sure that your auger is up to the task before making a large investment. After all, since the density of these powders changes from batch to batch, consistency and accuracy are hard to achieve, and replacing an auger that doesn’t work well is costly. To make things worse, insufficient filling equipment can cause seal contamination, leading to consumer complaints. 

Read on to explore the 3 features you should look for when choosing the auger that’s right for your baking mix application. 

Baking Mix Packaging Machinery Backed by Experience & Product Testing  

When deciding which manufacturer to partner with for your baking mix filling needs, experience is an essential capability to look for.  

Our team of experienced engineers and technicians has extensive applications experience and is trained to find a solution that works best for your application and confirm you will achieve your desired rate, accuracy and line efficiency. That way, there’s no guesswork when installed at your facility. This aids in overall risk reduction and helps ensure the success of your project.  

Our recently updated and well-equipped test lab can replicate your plant conditions to run products as they would at your plant.  

Key features of our test lab include:   

• 15’ x 40’ mezzanine, with a total of five test bays  
• three test bays with cutouts for integration with ancillary packaging equipment such as Vertical Form Fill Seal machines 
• three available styles of mobile test equipment 
• multiple auger fillers, cup fillers and a rotary test turret 
• bulk product sample storage 
• full washdown capability 

Protect Your Investment with Sanitary Features  

Maintaining a sanitary environment is crucial to safely filling baking mixes. This is why choosing equipment with design features that facilitate a hygienic environment is vital.  

Sanitary features such as: 

• auger height adjustment in the drive head not in the hopper 
• hopper cover bolts outside of the product zone 
• removable hopper gasket seals for cleaning 
• ¼” solid stainless-steel hopper cover with quick disconnect clamps 

...and more are crucial to optimizing your food safety and keeping consumers safe.  

With optional vacuum tooling, product drip is eliminated and gives you a clean seal–every time.  

Easily Fill Multiple Products with Quick Changeover   

To increase your uptime and production yields, features that allow for quick changeover are fundamental to your auger’s design. That’s why Spee-Dee augers are designed with features that make accessibility and ease-of-operation a breeze. 

These include: 

• quick disconnect hopper clamps 
• sliding key tooling lock and the auger height adjustment in the drive head  
• 100-product memory that allows operators to quickly load and switch product recipes 

And more! 

Our Customers Say It Best   

Listen to what some of our customers had to say: 

“It’s all about people and reputation.  Anyone can set up a shop, but it takes people to make it successful.  Many people buy from a vendor and never buy another machine….we have been buying Spee-Dee machines for over 20 years.” - Charles Weinberg, CEO of MSI Express 

 “Spee-Dee has not only proven to be an industry leader but also set the standard in the area of dry product filling. Their machines are easy to disassemble for cleaning and incredibly consistent regarding repeatable performance.” - Jeremy Blazek, Sr. Project Manager of MSI Express 

Learn more about why leading baking mix suppliers choose Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery for their filling needs.  

How can Spee-Dee make your good baking mix packaging great?