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EQUIPMENT

Pizza production
by Andy Nelson

emand for pizza in grocery prepared
foods sections and in c-stores is surging.
Fortunately, leaders in the pizza production
equipment industry are there to meet it, with
machines designed for efficiency, durability
and dependability.
Jerry Murphy, president of Moonachie, New
Jersey-based Rondo Inc., also is bullish on
the future of ready-to-eat pizza at grocery
retail. "The category continues to grow and
the demand for easier ways to produce higher quantities with excellent quality."
Rondo's Pizzolo is a double-pass sheeter
that's used at the store level to shape crusts
from dough balls. One advantage Rondo has
over its competitors, Murphy says, is its ability to support a wide range of capacity demands - "from small to very big," he says.

What separates Unifiller from the pack when
it comes to pizza production equipment,
Sigrist says, can be summed in one simple
phrase: "easy to use." As with all its equipment, Unfiller's pizza equipment has been
designed with the goal of using the least number of parts, the simplest design possible and,
wherever possible, tool-free disassembly.
"With this approach Unifiller creates the easy
way for customers," he says. "It's faster to set
up, clean and maintain than most other equipment, and it's simpler to operate, with the
fewest adjustments and settings possible."
Add modularity to the list of advantages offered by Unifiller's pizza production equip-

Somerset Industries
recently launched a new
dough divider that when paired with
the company's dough rounder, offers
commissaries complete dough processing
capabilities. (divider shown here with the
SDR-400T dough rounder)
Photo: Somerset Industries

Most of Rondo's business in the pizza category, Murphy says, is with central manufacturing locations that have a larger line
making pizza bases and toppings - either
as kits or finished pizza. Rondo then adds its
expertise in crusts.
"We can automate the production of opencelled 'rustic-style' crusts with raised edges," he says.
Delta, British Columbia-based Unifiller Systems Inc. offers a host of equipment solutions that increase customers' yields and
lower their costs and waste through fast and
accurate portioning of sauces and doughs,
says Andy Sigrist, the company's senior
product manager.
Those solutions include:
x Unique ways to spread pizza and pesto
sauces with custom-depositing heads
and other solutions;
x For smaller systems, accurate and efficient portioning of sauces with handheld nozzles;
x Pre-bake solutions for spreading glutenfree pizza doughs; and
x Solutions to easily pump and transfer
sauces and pastes from shipping containers into hoppers.

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Unifiller's pizza production products easily integrate into automated systems, and many
customers use a combination of modular products to change their systems for specific
production runs. Photo: Unifiller

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