Moon cake Production Line

Moon cake is the traditional product in China and is also popular in Southeast Asia country and all worlds’ Chinese area. The moon cake can be made in a wide variety of shapes and tastes.

After molding line, the moon cakes are put into U shape baking pan and are transported into first part of tunnel oven, after brushing liquid egg yolk, the moon cake are baked again. After baking, the moon cakes are cooled in step-cooler, after cooled. They are taken out from pan by using the vibration type de-panner before enter into packing machines. The empty pans return through the pan cooling tunnel to the dough positioning and panning machine. And enter into next cycle.

Baking effect is the key to producing the perfect product. Saimai’s tunnel oven has independent temperature control in each zone to ensure that the product coming out of the oven has a uniform texture and color.The working parameters can be adjusted while machines are running, to further reduce stoppages. When running at steady state our ovens require no operator presence, and the efficient insulation system saves energy.

We also can customize our production lines to match the factory layout and design of our clients’ existing plants.

The baking tunnel oven include 3 parts : 1^st baking tunnel oven, liquid egg brushing machine, 2^nd baking tunnel oven.

The tunnel oven for baking moon cake is direct fired tunnel oven. The conveyor for this oven is slat band conveyor , which is suitable for baking products using baking tray.

Egg brushing machine

There are three methods to brush the liquid egg on the surface of moon cake after 1^st baking :

1: Brush manually 2: Auto brushing in length and breadth 3: Auto rotary brushing .

Step cooling tower

1: The qty. of step cooling tower depends on the cooling time and the customer’s workshop layout.

2: The step cooling tower consist of one set of single pan ascent tower and multi pan descent tower. The cooling tower is equipped with the cooling fan.

3: Working principle: when the pan is lifted up to top layer by layer, it will be transferred into descent tower, then multi pan per layer goes down layer by layer, and the moon cake cool down when the pan reached to the bottom of tower.

Moon Cake De-panner

the feature of moon cake is thin skin and heavy stuffing, and the skin is high sugar and high oil, it is easy to broke. So the proper way to take the moon cake from pan is manually. Especially for the moon cake size is big.

But it depends on the recipe, if the skin of moon cake is not so soft, we suggest to use the special designed tray and auto de-panner. (see picture 03)

Pan return conveyor /Pan cleaning machine/ pan lifter

After depanned, the empty pan will be cleaned and be stacked and lifted by a pan buffer, go through the overhead conveyor , and transfer them into auto traying machine for next cycle.