Miller Magazine Issue: 126 June 2020

22 NEWS MILLER / JUNE 2020 Earlier this year, GEA Pavan successfully hand- ed over a seventh production line for manu- facturing breakfast cereals to OBST S.A.. Both companies have been working in a close part- nership for 20 years. This long-lasting collabo- ration aims to turn marketable ideas into con- crete and successful cereal products. The recent line addition will allow the Polish company to go to the market with innovative cereal prod- ucts. In this case cereal shaped like pillows. GEA Pavan installs seventh production line for Polish breakfast cereal producer OBST – the Polish solution for high quality breakfast cereals In the 90s, Polish consumers started to replace traditi- onal morning food like “Jajecznica”, a large meal com- posed of eggs, sausages, with breakfast cereal. During the years that followed, the shelves of supermarkets in Poland began filling with corn flakes and other breakfast cereals that were produced outside the country. OBST saw the opportunity to break into a growing market, opened the company and partnered with GEA Pavan to provide a local source of breakfast cereals. In 1997, OBST ordered its first line from GEA Pavan, creating the beginning of a strong strategic partners- hip. The business grew and OBST decided to increase production capacity by installing five more lines. It was a positive experience for OBST, and they confirmed GEA Pavan as a preferred supplier. With these six GEA Pavan lines, OBST produces 3.500 tons per year of bre- akfast cereal and exports into Europe, Africa and Asia. The new seventh line allows OBST to step into a new product area. Starting with one existing line used for corn flake production GEA added machinery, transfor- ming the line into one that produces cereal pillows. The die for two-layered whole meal cereals is applied dire- ctly to the extrusion head, allowing the production of coextruded pillows. The filling system composed of a feeding system, a buffer and a dosing system, allows for filling of the pillow and it ensures perfect dosing calibration. The extruded product is initially processed by a two-layer forming unit which, by means of a roller, will give the product its typical pillow shape and at the end separated through a rotating drum. Once separa- ted, the pillows are dried in the oven and, once cooled on the belt, are ready to be packaged and distributed. GEA Pavan extrusion technology ensures high efficiency and product quality “The GEA Pavan production lines assure high stan- dards of quality and extreme flexibility. These are