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FOOD INDUSTRY SUMMARY
Our first exposure to the food industry was in 1952 when we supplied hot air heaters to the Quaker Oats Company in Akron, Ohio. Their famous "shot from guns" cereals were actually expanded by hot air from Lanly heaters. Additional units were eventually sent to Quaker plants in Illinois and Iowa.
In 1967 we were granted a contract by Bachman Jacks in Oneida, New York to design a dryer for extruded corn curls. The design was successful and a year later in 1968 we were given an order to provide an assembled unit for Bachman's Reading, Pennsylvania plant.
Curiously, the first design for Bachman was sent to a customer in Japan and between 1968-1970 all of our snack food dryers were sent either to Japan or England.
In 1971 our founder, James A. Lyle, collaborated with Charlie Seyfert on Lanly's first 3 pass snack food dryer. Today, our newly designed version of the 3 pass oven is our top seller overseas and in the United States.
Though our main focus is building custom designed equipment, we have also developed a line of standard food ovens for basic extruded corn snacks . We offer standard sizes of either single pass or three pass ovens with the option of painted or stainless steel construction.
As a result of our experience in the extruded snack industry opportunities have evolved for Lanly in providing ovens for pizza crusts, tostada shells, pretzels, toasted bagel slices, gingerbread houses, nuts, tortilla chips, and potato chips, cereals and pies.
At the end of this introduction is a partial list of our food industry customers. From 1987 to the present we have had a steady increase in our food oven business to where it is now an appreciable percentage of our total work.
Many of our most recent customers cannot be listed due to confidentiality agreements. In the past few years and currently Lanly is involved in the development of new systems for new processes.
We are very pleased with the results we have seen on developmental projects and have proven ourselves to be instrumental in helping our customers get product to consumers quickly.
Some development projects we have worked on are:
Pretzels
A large pretzel manufacturer (Snyders) began working with us to find a way to increase
production. Though bakers were highly skeptical of using convection dryers to bake and dry
pretzels, we knew it was a certainty that our ovens would increase production. What was
discovered is that not only did production increase but a more desirable product was
produced (appearance and texture) and there was significantly less breakage in the
process.
Tostadas
Again in the area of applying convection heat to a product thought to be produced only one
way, we helped develop a customers line of a unique product that is so successful we have
sold them additional ovens to meet their continuous growth.
Bagels
Sliced and flavored "Bagel Crisps" opened up another area for us to develop a
system and further our knowledge of the advantages and applications of convection heat.
Crackers
Our streamlined hi-velocity tubes worked out very well in cracker applications. Our
expertise with hi-velocity air goes back a long way yet only recently have we applied it
to new food products.
Pies and
Cakes
Convection air baking of pies and cakes in a continuous oven. Application uniformly bakes
and colors 300 pies per minute with a combination of high velocity air and lower velocity
air blanket.
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