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equipment

Labor-Saving Depositors
Labor costs, ingredient costs, operational costs - put almost any

New at Hinds-Bock is a ﬁnancing option for customers. Busi-

word in front of "costs," and you'll notice a trend: they're going

nesses that don't want to tie up their operating capital in

up. As a result, companies that make depositors for foods mar-

equipment can instead ﬁnance it at an affordable rate that

keted in bakeries are trying to make their machines as efficient

provides quick return on investment, Aasness says.

as possible - and to lower costs for their customers.
Hinds-Bock is keeping an eye on are single-serve, smaller porUniﬁller Systems Inc. is continually developing new depositor

tions, gluten-free and grab-and-go -Aasness calls them the

technology to meet the changing needs of its customer base,

"movers on the shelves and in the coolers." Anticipating these

says Stewart Macpherson, the company's vice president of

trends years ago, Hind-Bock engineered equipment that is spe-

sales and marketing. In September, Uniﬁller introduced a new

ciﬁcally designed to meet and exceed the needs they created,

batter depositing machine at the IBA expo in Munich.

he says.

The RP depositor relies on a multi-port depositing system that

Industry trends that Uniﬁller is capitalizing on include demand

uses rotary piston technology. That means product is on both

for products that taste better, have better ingredients, are more

sides of the pistons, which Macpherson says eliminates the pos-

consistent and boast new, innovative designs, Macpherson says.

sibility of air entering the portioning chambers. The RP also can

Only one thing, he says, guarantees that the company can keep

be conﬁgured by the user, allowing the machine to be set up

up with those and other trends. "We are in constant communi-

from single ﬁll to as many as 18 deposit portioning chambers.

cation with our customers, who are usually aware of the next
trends as they develop."

"We continue to introduce new depositing, pumping and ﬁnishing technology and systems every year and plan to continue

Uniﬁller developed the Deco-iSpot, a depositor speciﬁcally for

adding further new products from here forwards," Macpherson

products sold in instore bakeries that Macpherson says suc-

says. "What our customers repeatedly say about our machines

cessfully resolves "three big issues." The depositor automati-

is the performance, accuracy but mostly the simplicity of the

cally draws ready-made frostings or ﬁllings directly from the

Uniﬁller designs is why they keep returning to us."

pail in which the product was delivered; eliminates the need to
sured amount of frosting directly onto cupcakes; and eliminates

for its depositors, says Lance Aasness, the company's executive

the need to ﬁll or squeeze pastry bags.

vice president. "Hinds-Bock has become a trusted name that
production facilities can rely upon to be hassle free, last forever

"It has a built-in twisting mechanism that allows a completely

and has the best in class after sales support. What people like

inexperienced bakery to quickly decorate cupcakes, or it can

best is that the equipment is robust, super reliable, easy to

be used as a stand-alone batter depositor," Macpherson says.

clean and maintain and very accurate," he says.

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