If you’re starting a new pizza label, it can be overwhelming trying to find the right equipment. Beginning a new brand brings up important business questions. Does your brand install equipment that’s best for its starting size, or invest in tech that can scale up with your company? Should it employ user-friendly machinery for a starting company, or equipment that can adapt to shifting market changes?
Answering questions like these helps your team decide what its production processes will look like. However, the right pizza manufacturing equipment won’t require your team to pick between usability and adaptability. In this beginner’s guide to pizza manufacturing equipment, we’ll explore user-friendly and scalable frozen pizza topping applicators, key ingredients to new production lines, and spotlighting on frozen pizza cheese placement for novel labels. But first, we’ll start this guide by reviewing typical components of frozen pizza manufacturing.
Planning a new and successful frozen pizza label starts with knowing about the importance of layouts and maximizing efforts. At Quantum, we strive to provide a helpful guide of industry tips.
Components of Frozen Pizza Manufacturing
Components of frozen pizza manufacturing include the pizza manufacturing equipment, but they also include many other aspects. Each is critical to the success of a new pizza production line. These components of frozen pizza manufacturing include Circle Placers, Ingredient Applicators, and Conveyors, and they all play an important role in facilitating consistent, high-quality pizza products. Here, we’ll explore why.
Circle Placers
Cardboard circles, rectangles, and squares form a strong base for any pizza during assembly, freezing, transportation, and shelf-life. While new brands may be tempted to not include a circle placer in their production process, this type of equipment is critical for ensuring quality and consistency. Quantum Circle Placers can dispense a range of sizes and shapes of cardboard at adjustable speeds so that pizzas remain aligned for ingredient application and packaging.
Ingredient Applicators
Of course, ingredient applicators are key components of frozen pizza manufacturing. Finding the right ingredient applicators is arguably even more important. Newer brands have the luxury of choosing machinery built for lower volume. However, demand can increase without warning, leaving newer and smaller labels scrambling to keep up. Employing pizza manufacturing equipment that can adjust to a fluctuating market can prepare new brands for withstanding the challenges of food manufacturing. And, the same flexible technology helps brands to scale up when they’re ready to. At Quantum, we offer the following automated pizza manufacturing equipment:
- Sauce Applicators- perfect for dispensing red, BBQ, Alfredo, and other sauces
- Cheese/Topping Applicators- ideal for shredded cheeses, IQF ingredients, and dry ingredients
- Meat/Pepperoni Slicers-Cut and apply stick meats like pepperoni, sausage, and Canadian bacon. Quantum slicers can also be configured to cut meats and cheese deli-style for added versatility
- Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicators- great for dispensing herbs, salt, granulated cheeses, seeds, and similar ingredients.
Quantum equipment is precise and versatile in that it can dispense a wide range of ingredients, consistently. This is exceptionally helpful for new brands to maximize the functionality of their automated pizza manufacturing equipment. We’ll explore the specific ingredient application types a little later on!
Conveyors
Lastly, conveyors are also important components of frozen pizza manufacturing. While line progression is an important conveyor function, Quantum conveyors offer other benefits to the assembly lines. Our extensive range of specific-use conveyors streamlines assembly line operations, ensuring quality and consistency. We offer the following conveyors at Quantum:
- Water Spray Conveyors– For protecting pizzas during freezing, shipping, and baking
- Bulk Feed Conveying Systems– Great for managing ingredient availability
- Flat Belt Conveyors– Important for ensuring assembly line progression
- Compression Conveying Systems– Facilitates uniform ingredient thickness
- Reclaim Conveyors– Minimizes ingredient waste
- Infeed Orientation Systems– Ensures product alignment throughout assembly
Quantum conveyors provide additional ways to increase the functionality of your pizza production line, and can also change operational speeds as needed. Quantum equipment can scale with your company, maximizing ROI every step of the way. Automation brings many benefits to food manufacturing, and Quantum automated equipment helps new brands to easily excel in the industry. We make this possible by making our frozen pizza topping applicators (along with our other tech) user-friendly and scalable.
User-Friendly and Scalable Frozen Pizza Topping Applicators
Efficient pizza manufacturing equipment is user-friendly and scalable. User-friendliness ensures that staff can properly operate the frozen pizza topping applicators, allowing them to make products according to brand guidelines. Scalability allows equipment to adapt to the changing landscape of the food industry while streamlining operations and lowering investment costs. Regardless of application design, our waterfall and target ingredient applicators are easy to operate and are flexible to the industry’s demands. As a new pizza label, it’s important to know the benefits of either type of ingredient application and how functionality shapes success.
Target Application
Target ingredient application applies a specified amount of ingredients on each pizza. At Quantum we have target Sauce and Cheese applicators, as well as Meat/Pepperoni slicers. This ensures that toppings are dispensed exactly according to brand specifications, which also reduces waste. Target application is ideal for when your company has a certain product look in mind.
Waterfall Application
On the other hand, the waterfall application dispenses an even layer of toppings to each pizza without specification of placement. At Quantum, we offer waterfall Sauce, Cheese/Topping, and Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicators. When used with reclaim conveyor systems, waterfall applicators can also reduce waste by recirculating unapplied ingredients. Waterfall application works for any production line, and is specifically efficient for high-volume assembly.
Quantum frozen pizza topping applicators are not only user-friendly and scalable, but they also improve line sustainability and reduce ingredient waste. By doing so, they lower operating costs, which is exceptionally helpful for newer brands. To explore a practical example of topping application, let’s briefly look at frozen pizza cheese placement.
Spotlight: Frozen Pizza Cheese Placement
Good frozen pizza cheese placement is critical for a high-quality meal. For most pizzas, cheese is everything! So, brands getting cheese application right can lead to success. Target frozen cheese placement can create a more picture-perfect product while offering great taste. Waterfall frozen pizza cheese placement can offer the same taste and minimize waste as well. Our experts at Quantum recommend either for starting brands– your choice depends on what your company envisions its products to look like. If an ingredient-free border and gourmet-looking meal reflects your brand image, then we recommend a target applicator. If your brand wants to streamline applications without sacrificing taste, quality, or consistency, waterfall applicators will work just as well!
Find Industry-Leading Equipment at Quantum
At Quantum, we’re dedicated to creating industry-leading equipment that can help new brands grow. By being user-friendly, scalable, and adaptable, our technology is easily accessible to brands of all production volumes. We build our automated food equipment to overcome the challenges of food manufacturing today while offering the ability to handle the unforeseen demands of tomorrow. Contact our team at Quantum to learn which of our automated solutions can start your brand on the right track.