How Rijkaart Supports Your Industrial Bakery Equipment Needs
Article Summary:
Industrial baking equipment helps bakeries scale up and run all day without constant monitoring
Automated equipment isn’t about replacing staff, it’s about keeping up with growth and demand spikes
Longer shifts, dipping quality and turning down orders are signs your setup can’t keep up
Rijkaart has built reliable, customisable bakery equipment since 1963
Contact Vanrooy to find the right production line for your bakery
Ever wondered how some of your favourite bakery manufacturers produce bread, pastries and baked goods at scale, even up to one million units per day?
They achieve this volume by using industrial baking equipment in their production.
Now, while you may not be pumping out products at that scale, when your bakery grows, it becomes clear pretty quickly that you some form of industrial bakery equipment is needed to keep up with demand.
So, What Actually Counts as 'Industrial' Bakery Equipment?
Your local bakery’s mixer and a genuine industrial setup are on two different levels entirely.
Professional industrial baking equipment isn’t just a bigger version of what’s in the corner shop, it’s built to run all day, every day, without breaking a sweat, while a smaller piece of equipment wouldn’t be able to keep up and would require you to be monitoring it.
Other than size, there’s also the topic of automatic vs. semi-automatic equipment, which comes down to how much you want your hands in the process. Automatic runs the show itself start to finish; semi-automatic gives your team a hand where it counts and lets them take control the rest. Neither’s is inherently better, it’s just about what your bakery actually needs.
What’s more important for you are make-up lines and equipment lines. This is where the real work happens, from shaping and cutting to filling and moving product from raw dough to ready-to-bake without a person touching every single piece along the way.
How Big Does Your Bakery Need to Be Before You Go Industrial?
Automated bakery equipment is not about replacing your staff, it’s about giving them their time back. The dough still gets mixed, shaped and baked the same way, you’re just not standing over it doing it all by hand at midnight. It means you can continue growing and picking up new customers.
During those periods when demand doubles, whether it be the Christmas rush, a new wholesale contract, or a café chain wanting daily deliveries, good industrial bread baking equipment or other production lines keep up without you needing to hire five extra people for one busy month.
Ask yourself: Could your current setup run all day, every day, without fail? A proper bakery production line is built to start in the morning and keep doing its job, without needing a babysitter. Trust us: here at Vanrooy, we’ve seen productions running 24/7!
A few signs it's time to upgrade your large bakery production
A few tells that your current setup is buckling under large bakery productions:
You’re running longer shifts just to hit the same numbers
Product quality starts slipping when things get busy
Every big order feels like a scramble instead of just another day at work
You’re turning down new opportunities and contracts
Here at Vanrooy, we love seeing bakery productions across the country grow, so we have a range of manufacturers that help you meet your targets, one of which is Rijkaart.
Rijkaart: Why Do So Many Bakers Swear By It?
Four generations of building bakery equipment will teach you a thing or two and it shows. Since 1963, Rijkaart bakery equipment has been built for people who are actually on the floor running bakeries all day.
What makes Rijkaart food processing equipment different from the rest?
This comes down to range and precision, providing automatic and semi-automatic machinery covering everything from pie and pastry lines to make-up lines, sheeting lines, laminators and full bread lines. They also have a genuine willingness to customise around your space and your output, not the other way around.
Rijkaart have a range of fully autonomous lines that produce many different types of high quality doughs, so whether it be a pie production line, a pastry production line or automatic bread lines, they’re a great addition to your bakery.
Where Can Rijkaart Production Lines Help You?
This is the line for bakeries beginning their investment into industrial bakery production. Start with what you need today, then attach more as business grows. It handles flatbreads, crackers, filled pastries and short dough easily, and the touchscreen controls are simple enough that you won’t need extensive training just to switch it on. Fast changeovers keep downtime down to a coffee break, not a shift.
Built to make almost anything you throw at it, such as sausage rolls, croissants, danishes, pasties, you name it, and built around your business rather than forcing your business to fit the machine. The servo-driven depositor does the fiddly work with more consistency than the steadiest hands on your best day and the menu-driven controls are simple enough for your entire team to use.
If you need equipment that just keeps making bread, buns, baguettes and ciabatta, batch after batch, without ever needing a break, this is it. The dough forming system handles even the most delicate doughs like they’re nothing and between the automated duster, the sheeter and the oven loader, there’s barely a hand needed from start to finish.
Whether you need 5,200 pies an hour or 20,000, this line handles it all. Built heavy duty for the long run, with a servo-driven depositor that makes pie number one look exactly like pie number ten thousand. Product changeovers and cleaning cycles are quick, and the touchscreen menu means your team isn’t stuck guessing at buttons.
Consistent, high-quality laminated dough without a person babysitting every fold. From the flour duster to the butter pump running continuously through the dough, this line handles the delicate, repetitive work that would wear out a whole team by hand, making it perfect for large-scale bakery productions.
FAQs about Industrial Baking Equipment
What equipment is needed for a commercial bakery?
The equipment you need for a commercial, and then an industrial bakery depends how big you’re going and what you’re actually making. Most commercial bakeries land on a mix of the same core gear: a solid mixer, a make-up line to shape and cut your product, some kind of cooling or proving setup so nothing sits around waiting on itself and an oven that can keep up with volume. If you’re doing bread, you’ll want a proper bread line. Pies and pastries? You’re looking at a pie line or laminating line instead.
There’s no one-size-fits-all list, so here at Vanrooy, we look at what you’re producing and how much of it, then build the line around that, rather than selling you gear you don’t need, so get in touch and let’s have a chat!
Where to find industrial dough mixers in Australia?
As one of the best industrial baking equipment suppliers in Australia, here at Vanrooy, we supply commercial and wholesale production bakeries with the equipment they need to maximise their output, without compromising on the quality of their products.
When should I upgrade to industrial baking equipment?
You should upgrade to industrial baking equipment the moment your team’s working flat out and you’re still watching orders pile up faster than trays come out of the oven. If your bakers are staying back late just to keep pace, or you’re turning down big orders because you physically can’t make that much bread or pastry in a day, that’s your answer right there.
What is Rijkaart bakery equipment best for?
Rijkaart has built its name over four generations on gear that handles high-volume, high-consistency work, whether it be for pies, pastries, bread, laminated doughs, you name it, all without the quality dropping off when the numbers go up. If you’re mass producing and need every single unit to come out looking like the last one, that’s exactly what Rijkaart’s designed for.
Is Your Bakery Ready to Go Fully Automated?
If you’re ready for commercial bakery equipment that’s actually worth the investment, get in touch with the Vanrooy team. We’ll talk through your budget, your space, what you’re making and where you’re headed, and help you land on the production line that’s built to work as hard as you do.
