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ONLINE AUCTION: Complete Bakery & Snack Food Plant Surplus to the Kroger Company (June 26 – 27)

Sale Highlights:
Cookie & Cracker Lines: 

  • Saltine Cracker Line: $12 million investment complete with
    Spooner Vicars laminating system, 70-meter mesh belt oven, Bosch slug
    wrappers, plus Jones stacker & cartoner system
  • Cookie Band Lines: (3) Werner & Baker Perkins steel band
    ovens with wire cut extruders, icing slurry mixers, Peerless cooling
    tunnels and high-speed tray packaging systems
  • Bag in Box Packaging Line: Previously used for oyster
    crackers and mini Vanilla wafer cookies with Hayssen Yamato multihead
    weighers and FF&S baggers with accumulating feed bin

Bread & Bun Lines

  • Bread Production Line: (2) Peerless 2100 lb roller bar
    mixers, AMF ADD divider, indexing rounder table & flouring belt,
    Stichelber bread moulding systems, plus 5 strap bread pans
  • Bun Production Line: Peerless 2000 lb roller bar mixer with
    chunker, Cummins Eagle TRS-4 bun extruder/pan-o-mat systems, Stewart
    carousel bun cooler, plus hot dog pan inventory
  • Liquid Fermentation Dept: Walker cold hold process tanks,
    Crepaco Sponge-o-matic mixer, auger type fermenter tank, Mueller
    8000-gallon cream yeast silo tanks, plus CIP system

Snack Food Plant 

  • Tortilla Chip Lines: (2) Casa Herrera/Heat & Control
    1000 and 2000 lb cap hot oil chip production lines with masa mixers,
    feeders, sheeters, bake ovens and continuous fryers
  • Puff & Fried Snack Lines: For fried cheese snacks, puffs
    and flavored popcorn, with Wenger extruder & dryer, Pitman fryer,
    Spray Dynamics coating systems, and Cretors HSP650 popper
  • Corn Processing & Bulk Storage: Lee 400-gallon full
    sweep corn kettles, 18-tank corn soak platform, corn wash tumblers, plus
    bulk storage silos for corn kernels and popcorn seeds

Mixing, Process & Bulk Storage 

  • Dough Mixing Areas: (3) Peerless triple roller bar bread
    & bun mixers; (4) Shaffer and Peerless single arm sigma blade cookie
    mixers, T.L. Green 3 spindle cracker mixers with (40) mix troughs
  • Process Equipment: Oakes 40SM & Peerless SM-1000 slurry
    mixers; Peerless HT-1600 icing tanks; Lee cook & mix kettles to 400
    gallon, Waukesha & Crepaco positive displacement pumps
  • Bulk Flour & Sugar Systems: (12) silos for flour &
    sugar storage, Pfening in plant flour & sugar use bins, Great
    Western flour sifters, plus dust collectors, diverters & PLC
    controllers

Packaging Systems

  • FF&S Bagging Platforms: (10) bagging platforms with
    Hayssen Yamato 14 head weighers, Hayssen Ultima and Bosch baggers, metal
    detectors, Blueprint Automation case packers
  • Packaging Support: Doboy Linium flow wrappers,
    Safeline-Mettler-Toledo metal detectors & checkweighers, AMF
    Versa-Pack case packers, OK Int carton erectors, Douglas case packers
  • Robotic Case Palletizers: Fanuc M-410iB robotic case
    palletizing stations with Lantech pallet wrapping systems, auto pallet
    dispensers and automated pallet delivery car

General Plant   

  • Facility Equipment: IR, Quincy & Gardner Denver air compressors & dryers; Vilter refrigeration compressors & BAC tower coolers; Newly installed 13.5KVA transformer & switchgear vaults
  • Factory Support: Crown electric forklifts, stackers & pallet movers; Enormous quantify of Hytrol case conveyor; pallet racking; waste water & sanitation systems; walk in coolers & freezers
  • Shop & Spare Parts: Wide array of shop tools and welders (multiple shops throughout): Huge spare parts inventory with bearings, electrical controls, motors, drives, pumps and Vidmar cabinets

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