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Sunbeam biscuit line with stainless conveyors and forming sections
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Complete turnkey lines for biscuit, cookie and cracker production, covering ingredient handling, dough forming and baking through to stacking and packing.

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Two dough families, two complete lines.

Each line is configured around the product you plan to make, from dough preparation to the packer.

Assortment of hard dough crackers and laminated biscuits

Hard Dough Lines

Crackers and hard sweet biscuits hold their shape only when the dough is worked in stages. Our lines sheet, laminate and cut in sequence, so the piece that leaves the cutter is the piece that reaches your carton.

Product range

  • Marie biscuits
  • Petit-beurre style biscuits
  • Rich tea fingers
  • Cream crackers
  • Savoury snack crackers
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Assortment of soft dough biscuits: cookies, shortbread, swirls and cream sandwiches

Soft Dough Lines

Rich dough gives up its shape easily, which puts your giveaway in the hands of the forming section. Our moulding holds weight and surface detail steady from the first tray of a shift to the last.

Product range

  • Cookies
  • Shortbread biscuits
  • Butter biscuits
  • Glucose biscuits
  • Cream biscuits
  • Tea & plain milk biscuits
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Flexi Line

One Line. Both Dough Families. Fifteen Minutes Between Them.

Plants that make crackers and cookies have carried two lines, or given up a shift to every rebuild. The flexi line holds both forming arrangements in registration, so switching product family takes roughly fifteen minutes.

  • One line and one footprint covering two product families
  • Changeover hours returned to saleable output
  • Short runs of a second product worth scheduling
  • One spares inventory and one maintenance routine
Sunbeam Flexi Line with stainless conveyors and forming sections
15min changeover
Illustration of an integrated Sunbeam biscuit line with oven and conveyors
Turnkey Solutions

Complete plant machinery, planned around your product and budget.

Sunbeam acts as your engineering and procurement partner, helping you select, source and integrate the machinery required for a complete production setup.

  • Product and production requirement assessment
  • Machinery selection and sizing
  • Plant layout and space planning
  • Packing line integration
  • Utilities and equipment interface planning
  • Installation, commissioning and operator training
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Every Stage, Engineered Together

  1. Mixing and Dough Feeding

    Automated dosing and jacketed mixing hold dough consistent batch to batch, which keeps piece weight steady at the forming section.

  2. Soft Dough Moulding

    Chainless moulders with independent drives let an operator correct weight or release in minutes, and hold embossing detail through the run.

  3. Hard Dough Forming

    Sheeting, lamination and staged gauging build the layer structure and hold the cut dimension through to the oven.

  4. Baking

    Multi-zone tunnel ovens develop colour and texture independently, with insulation that holds fuel cost per tonne across the life of the line.

  5. Cooling, Stacking and Packing

    Cooling sized to your plant's working ambient reduces breakage after packing, and synchronised stacking keeps your packer fed at line rate.

Super Hygiene Construction

Paint-free stainless surfaces, track-free belts and open access shorten sanitation downtime and keep an audit routine. Layouts are drawn for low product contact, aligned to GMP and HACCP expectations.

Integrated Control

PLC control with touch screen HMI holds recipe memory across the line, which shortens changeover and reduces the load on your operators. Data logging supports maintenance planned ahead of wear.

Our Capabilities

Engineering Expertise

Every line architecture originated in-house by our own design team, supported by decades of accumulated knowledge in biscuit machinery design.

Integrated Solutions

Equipment, automation and process requirements considered as part of a connected production system.

Production Flexibility

Solutions configured around product type, output targets, plant layout and future capacity, including the ability to transition between hard dough and soft dough production on a single platform.

Aftersales Support

Installation, commissioning, operator training, spare parts and ongoing technical support, delivered by the same teams that designed and built the line.

Specifications

Every line is configured to the product, capacity and plant. Machine drawings and full specification sheets are issued with a quotation.

Hard Dough Lines

Full details
Belt speed
Up to 120 metres per minute
Sheet thickness range
0.4 mm to 15 mm
Laminating capability
Up to 8 overlapping layers
Layout options
Straight-line or L-shaped configuration
Scrap return
Pneumatic or conveyor-based automated system
Control system
PLC with digital speed control

Soft Dough Lines

Full details
Production capacity
250 kg/hr to 2,500 kg/hr
Working widths
800 mm, 1,000 mm, 1,200 mm, 1,500 mm and 1,800 mm
Energy options
Electric, oil, natural gas or LPG
Control system
PLC with touchscreen HMI
Construction
Food-grade stainless steel or PU painted

Installed, Commissioned, Handed Over Running

We install your line, commission it on your own formulation, and train your operators before handover. Standardised parts held ex-stock simplify spares selection and shorten downtime.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What machines make up a biscuit production line?

Mixing and dough feeding, a forming section, a tunnel oven, cooling conveyors, and stacking with packing integration. The forming section differs by product: a rotary moulder for soft dough, or sheeters, laminators, gauging stations and a rotary cutter for hard dough.

Which tunnel oven should my plant choose?

Crackers generally take a direct fired oven. Products sensitive to the combustion atmosphere take indirect radiant. Thicker products bake evenly under convection. Configuration is recommended against product and available fuel.

Can one line make both crackers and cookies?

Yes. A Sunbeam Flexi Line keeps both forming arrangements on the line, so changing between hard dough and soft dough production takes roughly fifteen minutes.

Tell us what the plant has to produce.

Share your product, target capacity and available space. An engineer will recommend a line configuration.

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