Most buyers start this search with a product in mind, biscuits or tortillas or crisps, and a vague idea of a machine. What actually decides the equipment is how many kilograms an hour you must bake or fry, and what the dough does on the belt.
The lines side by side
| Line | What it makes | Output in our range | Notes | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compact cookie machine | Cookies, 10-250 g | 20-120 pcs/min | 220 V, forms only; oven separate | Small bakeries, start-ups |
| Hard and soft biscuit line | Hard and soft biscuits | 100-1,000 kg/h | 380 V, gas or electric oven | Biscuit factories |
| Touch-screen biscuit line | Soft, hard, soda, sandwich | 100-1,250 kg/h | 29-125 m long, recipe storage | Large plants |
| Wafer and cookie line | Wafer, cookies, cakes | Set by project | 304 stainless contact parts | Multi-product bakers |
| Flatbread line | Tortilla, pita, lavash, naan | Up to 12,000 kg dough/h at top of family | Modular tooling | Flatbread bakeries |
| Tortilla press with griddle | Discs 10-27 cm | Up to about 1,050 pcs/h | 110/220 V, 60 Hz | Restaurants, small makers |
| Potato chips and fries line | Chips, French fries | 100-5,000 kg/h | 380 V, 304 stainless | Snack factories |
Convert pieces to kilograms first
A forming head quoted in pieces per minute hides the real capacity. At 120 pieces a minute and 20 g a piece, a cookie machine yields 2.4 kg a minute, about 144 kg an hour. That is a generous bakery output but well short of a 500 kg/h line. If you need 500 kg/h of 12 g biscuits, you are counting near 700 pieces a minute, and the answer becomes a rotary moulder, a tunnel oven and a cooling conveyor. This is an illustration, not a quote.
What the oven does to the price
Oven length follows output and baking time. On our biscuit lines, hard biscuits bake about 3-6 minutes and soft ones 4-8 minutes at roughly 180-260 degrees C, so a 500-1,000 kg/h line needs an oven of about 30-60 m. Supplier guides that publish prices show a wide spread, with semi-automatic lines listed at about 200-800 kg/h and fully automatic lines above that; cost rises mostly with output, oven length and automation. For the full cost logic, read our biscuit machine price guide.
Fried snacks are a different job
A chip line is built around the fryer, with washing, slicing, de-oiling and seasoning on either side. Heating can be thermal oil, gas or electric. A published case study shows how continuous frying with oil filtration let one plant double output when replacing a manual line, which is why oil management belongs in the specification. Our chip line is listed at 180 kW installed, with typical frying at about 170-190 degrees C.
Packing the product
Finished biscuits need a pillow wrapper and snacks a vertical bagger. See the flow wrapper group and the form fill seal group.
What to send for a quote
- Products, piece weights and recipes (dough type matters).
- Target kg/h or pieces per minute, and shifts per day.
- Fuel for the oven or fryer: gas type, electricity, thermal oil.
- Hall length, width and ceiling height.
- Voltage and frequency, such as 380 V 50 Hz.
- Packing, cooling and coating equipment to include.
Send these and we will propose a line and layout for your hall.