Golden Bake Pushes Biscuit Automation Further with Smart Ingredient Handling at the 140th Canton Fair

From storage and dosing to baking, Golden Bake's automatic silo and material-feeding system aims to lower costs, raise productivity and support ESG goals.

ZHUHAI, China, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Bake, the flagship baking equipment division of EVERGROWING MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITED, brought its biscuit machines and moulds to the 140th Canton Fair. A 3D model, however, offered a fuller picture of its approach to factory automation. It showed how intelligent silos, automated dosing and conveying systems could work alongside mixing, forming, and baking as one production line.

Much of the work starts before the dough reaches the mixer. Flour needs to arrive in the right quantity and at the right time; a delay here can hold up everything downstream. To address this situation, Golden Bake's automated ingredient handling system is designed to keep production stages running in step.

"Biscuit manufacturers focus on three things: safe operations, product quality, and productivity," said Golden Bake's marketing manager at the fair. "We wanted to show how smart ingredient handling and line-wide controls can cut flour dust exposure and weighing errors at the source, while keeping production moving."

Flour Dust is the First Problem

Before flour reaches a mixer, it must be unpacked, sifted, moved, and stored. Increased exposure to airborne dust and contamination results from manual tipping. The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) states that flour is a flammable dust that, in some circumstances, could cause an explosion.

Golden Bake's feeding station combines bag emptying, 30-mesh sifting, and dual-suction, negative-pressure dust extraction. Up to 50kg of flour per minute can be fed and screened through a pulse-cleaned cartridge separator with food-grade anti-static filter media and a rotary valve at the hopper base.

The pneumatic conveying system then transports flour in sealed pipes to storage, including between floors. The powder handling system and the electrical system are designed in compliance with the explosion-proof requirements of GB 50058-2014 and AQ 3009-2007. In a 1,000 kg buffer hopper, dust is controlled by gravity separation and filtration, with intermittent agitation at the bottom to avoid bridging and blockages.

Three Minutes Weighing and ±200 Grams Error

Precision ingredient dosing is not merely about hitting a target weight. The real challenge is keeping small dosing variations from becoming larger process inconsistencies.

A Golden Bake food technologist explained, "With mixed-flour recipes, even a small shift in the ratio can change water absorption, dough strength, and forming performance. In high-volume production, that quickly shows up in biscuit thickness and texture."

That concern is increasingly reflected in bakery investment priorities. According to Baking Business, 59% of respondents to a 2025–26 industrial bakery capital spending survey cited improvements in quality, consistency, and precision among their key investment objectives for 2026.

Golden Bake's automatic dosing system is controlled by a PLC and an HMI touchscreen for ingredient feeding, weighing, and discharge. The 1,000 kg automatic weighing hopper can be fed with different flours separately, by vacuum feeding and pneumatically sealed discharge, to feed horizontal, vertical, or other mixers.

The weighing cycle for a two-flour recipe is about 3 minutes. The tested tolerance is ±200 grams. The system supports recipes and weighing data recording, which helps with product changeovers and reduces the impact of operator turnover.

Cut the Cost of Waiting

Even accurately weighed flour does little good if the mixer is waiting for powdered sugar. And when mixing stalls, the rest of the production line can follow.

Golden Bake's integrated bakery production line is designed to close those gaps. The PLC-controlled scheduling allows sugar to be milled and weighed online and additives to be metered to recipe. Separate temperature-controlled modules pump oils, water and other liquids into the mixer in parallel. This means less waiting for ingredients and a steadier supply of dough to form and bake.

Setups can be adapted to the product, ingredients, and biscuit machine involved. A cookies production line, for example, puts more emphasis on the order in which sugar, fat, and flour enter the process. A cracker production line may require staged mixing and fermentation.

Retrofit, or Build From Scratch

Baking Business also revealed that, among the surveyed bakery enterprises, 32% are focusing on upgrades and retrofitting, while 22% plan to add new equipment or production lines by 2026.

Golden Bake's modular feeding system can be configured for integration with existing biscuit lines, depending on the plant layout and existing equipment. Furthermore, to support clients in establishing new facilities or expanding production areas, Golden Bake offers turnkey biscuit factory solutions—covering everything from facility planning and equipment layout to manufacturing, installation, and on-site commissioning.

Alongside the multifunction cookies machine and cream puff production line shown at the fair, its range includes the biscuit sandwich machine, biscuit creaming machine, and wafer stick machine.

As more biscuit makers invest in automation and digital controls, Golden Bake is expanding its global service network and using its engineering experience to help customers improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and extend the useful life of production assets.

About Golden Bake

Golden Bake was founded in 1999 by a team of machine engineers and food processing technologists. As a biscuit production line manufacturer, the company offers equipment for producing various types of biscuits—including cookies, soda crackers, Marie biscuits, and sandwich biscuits—along with customized, fully integrated production systems covering ingredient preparation, forming, baking, cooling, and downstream automation.

With its own R&D center and manufacturing facilities, Golden Bake has installed over 3,500 production lines across more than 30 countries and regions. The company has established long-term strategic partnerships with several leading overseas food enterprises.

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