RUSK & CRUMB (Breadcrumb-Type Filler) PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING LINE

Item # 9358 - RUSK & CRUMB (Breadcrumb-Type Filler) PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING LINE

Suitable for bakery crumb, coating crumb, and meat-industry filler manufacturing

A complete, proven rusk and flake-bake production line, 

formerly processing 3 tonnes/hour of flour into 2.5 tonnes/hour of finished rusk and flake bake (used as a filler in sausages, pies, coatings and stuffing mixes). 

The line ran continuously until the site was sold in December 2025, with numerous safety upgrades installed throughout its operating life.

Line includes:

2x Baker Perkins dough mixers – recently upgraded motors and gearboxes

Dough sheet former – forms the dough sheet ahead of the oven

Spooner oven – stainless steel panelling, three burners and controls renewed in 2024

Peg roller – breaks the biscuit sheet at oven exit

Cracker – reduces biscuit to a manageable size for the next process

2x Mikawa mills – mill biscuit to coarse granules for drying/conditioning

Dryer, conditioner and moisturiser (inline) – dries to ~2% moisture with burners replaced in 2023; spare unused burners and an unfitted replacement bed also available

2x Turbo mills – grind biscuit to finished rusk/crumb size

Sieving suite – includes two Russell Finex sifters (installed ~1 year before closure), a Cuccolini sieve, and a smaller Russell sieve

Ancillary equipment – cyclones, seals, filters, fans, metal detection and magnets, blowers

Packing line – 3 packing points with heat sealers for 13–25kg sacks, each with its own weigher and ~2 tonne holding hopper

Chronos Richardson palletiser – fully refurbished in 2025

2x bulk bag packers – for tote bags up to 1 tonne

2x shrink wrappers

Inline metal detection on bulk packers, plus two full-bag metal detectors on plastic sacks