If you’re looking to start a frozen pizza label, your team has to know what equipment you need to make frozen pizzas. This also includes knowing what equipment can facilitate your operations as you’re starting out and looking into what equipment can grow as your brand does. But, with so many equipment choices available on the market, where does a new label start?
At Quantum, we understand how overwhelming it can be to find the right frozen pizza manufacturing equipment that also meets your brand needs. This article will serve as a guide to what equipment you need to make frozen pizzas and become a top industry competitor. We’ll explore the types of frozen pizza equipment necessary for an assembly line. We’ll also discuss what applying frozen pizza toppings looks like with Quantum Quality equipment. But first, we’ll review the benefits of automated frozen pizza manufacturing to highlight why automated equipment is critical in the frozen food industry.
Benefits of Automated Frozen Pizza Manufacturing
Automation is absolutely necessary to make frozen pizzas in high volume. While manual assembly may only result in hundreds of products per day, automated assembly can produce hundreds of products per hour. In addition to increased productivity, automated frozen pizza manufacturing brings many benefits to brands, including minimized error, increased food safety, and streamlined costs.
Minimized Error
Automation reduces the number of human employees involved in assembly. This inherently decreases human error, helping more products pass QC. Minimized staffing also contributes to increased food safety. Quantum equipment is built for precision and consistency to decrease production errors.
Increased Food Safety
The combination of reduced human staffing and increased production visibility enhances the food safety of frozen food products. Automated frozen pizza manufacturing is safer for both employees and consumers as long as the machines are properly taken care of and the correct safety features are in place. We’ve built Quantum equipment with stainless steel designs to simplify cleaning and maintenance and with shielded moving parts to increase employee safety.
Streamlined Costs
The equipment used to make frozen pizzas also streamlines overhead costs. By reducing the number of staff needed, limiting food waste, and conserving water and energy resources, automated food equipment lowers the cost of operations. Quantum frozen pizza manufacturing equipment helps brands conserve costs while still offering great quality and taste.
These benefits of automated pizza equipment immediately transform pizza production lines. As a new brand, it’s important to start your venture with the right tools. Now, let’s look at the different types of frozen pizza equipment available to build your products.
Types of Frozen Pizza Equipment
Your production processes will depend on what kind of toppings your brand wants to include in its products. However, the typical types of frozen pizza equipment in assembly lines include cardboard circle placers, a range of topping applicators, and conveyor systems.
Cardboard Circle Placers
A cardboard circle placer is a necessary piece of equipment at the start of your assembly line. Quantum Circle Placers can automatically apply cardboard circles, rectangles, and squares of various sizes to the conveyor. These cardboard pieces form strong foundations for any pizzas, keeping them aligned throughout assembly and intact during transportation and shelf life.
Sauce Applicators
Sauce applicators are key pieces of frozen pizza equipment since red sauce is an iconic part of most pizzas. Quantum equipment features target and waterfall applicators. They dispense red sauce as well as other sauces like Alfredo sauce and barbecue sauce for product diversification.
Cheese/Topping Applicators
Cheese applicators are also critical pieces of equipment for making frozen pizza. Quantum equipment is built to dispense dry and IQF ingredients beyond shredded cheese. Your brand has the choice between conveyor applicators and cantilevered designs for quick implementation.
Meat/Pepperoni Slicers
Meat/pepperoni slicers are another key piece of frozen pizza equipment since pepperoni is the most popular pizza topping. This equipment is also vital for product diversification. Quantum Meat/Pepperoni Slicers facilitate unique slice designs to fulfill brand vision. Our Meat/Pepperoni Slicers can slice and apply pepperoni, sausage, Canadian bacon, and other stick meats, and they can be configured to slice meats and cheeses deli-style.
Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicators
The last piece of equipment needed to make frozen pizzas is a Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicator. The right Dry/Granular applicator is easily implemented while bringing ingredient versatility to an assembly line. At Quantum, our Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicators can dispense dry ingredients like dried meats and veggies, as well as granular ingredients like spices, seeds, granular cheeses, salt, and herbs. Our cantilevered and conveyor designs allow brands to choose how they’d like to integrate this equipment into their operations.
Conveyor Systems
Conveyor Systems are also critical during assembly. At Quantum we offer conveyor systems like flat belts, compression systems, and water spray conveyors, each serving a unique purpose to streamline assembly. Your brand can incorporate various conveyors to tailor your production process to your needs.
These types of equipment are important for making frozen pizzas. Having different ingredient toppings enables brands to build pizzas that customers are looking for. Now, let’s explore the different topping application methods of frozen pizza toppings. This will elaborate on the specific types of ingredient application technology for your new brand.
Applying Frozen Pizza Toppings With Quantum
At Quantum, we design both target and waterfall ingredient applicators for frozen pizza toppings. Both ingredient applicators benefit pizza production in different ways. Let’s take a look at each type:
Target Applicators
Target applicators dispense a designated amount of ingredients per product, which limits ingredient waste and conserves production costs. At Quantum, we offer target Sauce Applicators and Meat/Pepperoni Slicers that provide high visibility over the design of the pizza.
Waterfall Applicators
Waterfall applicators dispense an even level of ingredients as the pizzas proceed under the applicator. Quantum waterfall applicators include some of our Sauce Applicators, Cheese/Topping Applicators, and Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicators. Our waterfall applicators with reclaim systems allow brands to conserve ingredients and cost by recirculating toppings that missed application.
From different ingredient applicators to different applicator types, your brand will find the equipment needed to make your brand’s frozen pizza. As the best in the business, Quantum provides automated solutions that help new brands achieve success.
Find All You Need at Quantum
Quantum Technical Services is the industry’s leading automated pizza equipment manufacturer. Built with the needs of the food manufacturing industry in mind, our equipment is durable and reliable. Our tech can help clients overcome the challenges of food manufacturing. We offer an extensive selection of frozen pizza equipment so frozen food brands can find the solutions they’re looking for and implement them right away. Contact our team today to find out more about Quantum equipment.