Vikan cleaning tools for Dry Ready-To-Eat Snacks manufacturing plant
Snacking is on the rise! Boost your business with support from Vikan cleaning tools and Vikan hygiene experts.
The global snack food market was valued at 427.02 Billion USD in 2020 and is projected to grow significantly over the next 5 years. Dry and low moisture snacks, like crisps (or chips), cereal bars, and dried fruit are popular and convenient snacks in many parts of the world. Maintaining the quality and integrity of these products is key to ensuring consumer satisfaction and safety and that’s where Vikan can help.
Whether your dry snacks are sweet or savoury, maintaining them at optimum quality requires careful control of moisture throughout production. Excess moisture in the production environment can lead to poor product quality, spoilage, and waste. Vikan are experts in dry cleaning and support some of the world’s largest dry (and low moisture) snack manufactures. Our comprehensive range of manual cleaning tools - including brushes, dustpans, scrapers, and microfibre mops and cloths, provide all you need to facilitate both dry and controlled wet cleaning in your dry production environment.
Selecting the right cleaning tools
Brushware
- Fine bristle brushes tend to clog quickly and be difficult and time consuming to clean when used with fine dry powders like seasonings.
- Choose medium bristle brushes to clean up larger loose dry soils like nuts, seeds, crisps, and popcorn etc.
- Choose stiff bristled brushes to remove sticky, sugary and fatty deposits as part of a controlled wet clean.
Squeegees
- A fully moulded, single-bladed squeegee is a great alternative to the use of a fine bristle brush for removal of fine dry powders. They don’t clog and are much easier and faster to clean.
- They also work well for cleaning surfaces of excess oil and grease.
Scrapers
Scrapers are an effective way of removing burnt on snack debris. Take care to choose a scraper blade material that effectively removes the soil but doesn’t damage the surface being cleaned.
Microfibre
- Mops and cloth can be use dry or damp.
- Used dry they are very effective at removing allergen residues from surfaces.
- Used damp they can remove grease build-up from the sides of equipment and walls, even without chemicals.
Dedicated colours
Use equipment of a dedicated colour to minimise the risk of cross-contamination. For example,
- Purple for products that contain gluten, and Green for those that are gluten-free.
Product handling tools
Shovels, scoops, jugs, stirrers, and buckets should be made of food contact compliant materials and preferably be of a contrasting colour to the food to aid visual detection in the food.
Suggested Products for Dry Snacks Ready-To-Eat processing plants
Dry snacks processing requires strict adherence to sanitation rules and regulations. Tools from Vikan are made out of tough, compliant materials such as polypropylene and stainless steel. Unlike foamed plastic or wooden tools, our high-quality products have smooth surfaces for easy clean-up and better hygiene. Vikan tools are hygienically designed, which makes them easier to clean and less likely to harbor bacteria.
Vikan tools come in up to twelve colours, making them ideal for integration with colour-coded plans. Colour-coding helps prevent cross-contamination between raw and finished products, as well as keeping allergens separated.
Regardless of your operation’s size and complexity, Vikan has the tools and expertise to help you execute your colour-coding plans.
Source:
https://www.vikan.com/int/sectors/food-beverage-processing/dry-snacks-ready-to-eat-processing