Dale Spiral Systems & Bakery Automation supplies major equipment for Shakaskraal

Dale Spiral Systems supplied most of the bread cooling, conveying and packaging equipment for the Sasko Shakaskraal plant from the hot bread conveyors onwards.

Dave Brownhill, technical sales manager of Dale Spiral Systems, says that his company supplied the hot bread conveyors, spiral coolers, cold bread conveyors, collating and motorway conveyors, basket loader and basket conveyors as well as the basket de-elevators and stacking machines.

“It was a large project, especially as the plant has two lines,” says Brownhill. “There are two double drum spiral coolers as well as one single drum spiral which is used to cool Sasko’s Sarlie product range. It was also the first time that Dale Spiral Systems had supplied an overhead wicket bag conveyor system; which conveys wicketed bags from the store room some 75 metres across the plant to the bagging machines. The operators no longer have to leave their machines to collect bags as the wickets are transported to them.”

All equipment supplied by Dale Spiral Systems for the Shakaskraal plant was designed and manufactured by the company in its factory in Gauteng. Brownhill says that Dale Spiral Systems is the largest supplier of conveyor systems to bakeries in South Africa by market share. It also does many installations of conveyors and spiral freezers for frozen meat and poultry plants, and for other food production plants.

Dale Spiral Systems can supply all processing equipment for a new plant bakery - all designed and manufactured in South Africa by itself with the exception of make-up plant and bagging, which it normally imports. Dale Spiral Systems is also a supplier of swing-tray final provers and the Bakermation range of direct- or indirect-fired Spooner-type ovens.

Dale Spiral Systems also supplies robotic solutions for pan, lid and product handling. Its principal here is Yaskawa of Japan, with its top-of-the-market Motoman range. Dale Spiral Systems did not however supply the robots installed in the Shakaskraal plant. Brownhill believes this may have been due to price competition.

Brownhill says that Dale Spiral Systems’ family of equipment is growing continuously. He believes the company’s large market share in the bakery market is due to the fact that over the years it has reinvested heavily in the design and in-house production of equipment.

Source: Dale Spiral Systems

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