We work closely with our distributor Kanchan Metals to optimize FoodTools machines for cutting, portioning and slicing ethnic sweet goods in India. Sheet products are very popular in the Indian market and Kanchan partners with their customers to use our automated machine solutions to portion local favorites including soan papdi, dodha barfi, karachi halwa, mysore pak and more.
Cutting With Mechanical Blades
The CS-10TWWA is a mechanical cutting machine that portions frozen, chilled or hard products into squares or rectangles with a stainless steel blade. A full sheet, or multiple smaller sheets, are loaded onto the platform and with the push of a button the machine automatically indexes the product into position for cutting. Once the X and Y axis slices are finished the product is returned to the operator to be unloaded. Mechanical automation means that the products are cut perfectly every time, no matter who is operating the machine.
Kanchan Metals created a video showing FoodTools machines in India slicing products including badam burfi, kesar burfi, patisha, and kaju katlia.
Slicing Ethnic Sweet Goods In India With Kanchan Metals & FoodTools
Cut In Or Out Of The Pan
Sheet products can be depanned and sliced on a cutting board or custom product holder, or the products can be left inside the pan and portioned with a custom cut pattern and notched blade. This can save time by not depanning the products before slicing, but may also leave small uncut portions in the finished product. The cutting experts at Kanchan work closely with their customers in India to find the most accurate and efficient way to portion their products.
Cutting With Ultrasonic Technology
Some products at warmer or ambient temperatures achieve better cut quality using our ACCUSONIC® line of ultrasonic slicing machines. Ultrasonic blades vibrate at 20kHz, fast enough that most products cannot stick to the blade. This allows food production plants to slice fresh, ambient and sticky sweet goods without crushing, dragging, or destroying the product. This sheet of soan papdi was sliced with an ACCUSONIC® ultrasonic cutting machine.
Cutting Unique Shapes
Kanchan has also worked with bakers to slice sheets of sweets into unique shapes, including this kaju katli sheet cut into diamonds. Slicing unique portions like this requires servo driven indexing and a bit more engineering, but can be an option for Indian sweet good manufacturers looking to differentiate their products.
The partnership between FoodTools and Kanchen Metals is a great resource for sweet goods manufacturers and food processing plants in India. With our 4+ decades of portioning experience and Kanchan’s regional expertise we’re always excited to connect with new contacts and deliver automated equipment solutions for slicing ethnic sweet goods in India.
For more information about portioning regional products with automated sheet product slicing machines contact our sales team today.