iba 2025

Our highlights at iba 2025

in Düsseldorf Hall 13, Stand C21

AZO, the expert for automated raw material handling of powders, ingredients, enzymes, flavours, colours and liquids, will be exhibiting at iba 2025 from 18 to 22 May.

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At our booth in Hall 13, Stand C21 , we will be showing you our solutions for the automatic handling of large and medium-sized components as well as the integration of minor quantities and ingredients into the automatic process.

Whether in the production of baked goods, dough pieces, snacks or spices. With our solutions, we offer you maximum reliability for the automation of your raw material handling throughout the entire production process. From product feeding, screening and conveying to dosing and weighing, including system control: at AZO, all solutions come from a single source and are perfectly harmonised - smart, simple and safe.
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You can find out about the following key topics at our stand:

Whether batch or continuous process, AZO is your expert for automatic raw material handling for feeding mixers and kneaders. Our solutions include the storage, discharge, screening, conveying, dosing, weighing and feeding of bulk materials and liquids. Plant engineering, process engineering and automation are perfectly harmonised as integrated and reliable solutions - all from a single source!
3D graphic of an AZO plant
3D graphic of an AZO plant

The AZO solution for kneader feeding in detail

Product delivery and storage in outdoor silos

Large quantities such as flour and sugar are delivered by silo vehicles. Product reception is integrated into the building and shielded to ensure the highest standards of hygiene.
 
  • Hygienic product reception in a closed environment, protected from environmental influences
  • Monitored receiving routines for safe and convenient operation
  • Filter systems and monitoring devices for safe silo filling
  • Integrated silo headspace drying to prevent condensation
Product delivery in silo trucks and silo filling station

Reliable discharge and efficient feeding of flour

  • Vibration bottoms in combination with rotary valves ensure safe emptying of the silos and a uniform mass flow to avoid flour nests.
  • AZO cyclone screeeners remove foreign bodies and agglomerates
  • Distributor agitators enable several lines to be fed simultaneously from one silo. This increases flexibility, reduces dependencies between the kneading lines and ensures reliable flour dosing.
Vibrating bottom in combination with discharge valves; AZO cyclone screener; distributor agitator

Storing and weighing the medium quantities

Medium quantities such as baking agents are delivered in big bags and conveyed into indoor silos by vacuum conveying. An AZO cyclone screener ensures that no foreign bodies or agglomerates enter the production process.
The stored products are precisely dosed into a hopper scale according to the recipe. As soon as all the components are in the scale, they are emptied into a secondary container so that the scale is ready for the next batch. The batch is conveyed to the kneading lines via the vacuum weighing systems.
Vibrating bottoms, dosing screws

AZO vacuum weighing systems for conveying and weighing the flours

The flours are distributed to the various kneading lines with the aid of vacuum weighing systems. Each line has a conveying scale in which the flours are weighed.
 
Advantages of vacuum weighing systems:
  • High weighing and dosing accuracy
  • Closed and hygienic conveying
  • Low-dust product infeed for greater cleanliness
  • Automation ensures consistent product quality and process reliability
  • Flexibility when adapting to new recipes
AZO hopper scale

Liquid handling

AZO LIQUIDS GmbH supplies the appropriate conveying, dosing and weighing systems for handling liquids such as water, oil, liquid yeast and brine and liquid egg as well as CIP systems.

 

Liquid handling

Continuous kneader feeding

The powdered raw materials supplied via the vacuum weighing systems in the conveying scales are homogenised in a downstream powder mixer. They are then continuously fed into the premixer via the AZODOS® dosing unit .
This is where the liquid components are added and mixed intensively with the powdered raw materials. The homogenised dough is then continuously transported to the continuous kneader.

 

Continuous kneader feeding

Batch kneader feeding

The kneaders or kneading bowls are fed with powdered raw materials via vacuum weighing systems. Other ingredients, such as cocoa, are added via separate lines. Separating the lines minimises the amount of cleaning required.
Batch kneader feeding

Batch and small quantity automation: Small quantity - big effect!

Thanks to our precise recipe tracking and our accurate dosing and weighing systems, you can rely on the consistently high quality of your products. Our systems ensure that the right raw material is used at the right time, in the right quantity and in the right process. We meet the strictest hygiene requirements and minimise contamination risks, even with small batches and an increasing variety of products. With our easy-to-clean systems, we enable you to change recipes quickly and easily so that you can concentrate on what really counts: the quality of your products.

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Cost-effective solution with a limited number of components: AZO COMPONENTER® (circular)

The AZO COMPONENTER® in circular design is recommended if a small number of components are to be weighed automatically. With this principle, the storage containers, such as feeding hoppers for bags, pneumatically fed separators or small silos, are arranged in a circle above the collection vessel. They can be fed by vacuum or pressure conveying. Each component has its own raw material-optimised discharge, dosing and weighing system.
 

Your AZO plus points at a glance

  • High batch frequency due to parallel weighing (up to 40 batches/hour)
  • Easy to allocate to specific recipes, e.g. light and dark product lines
  • Feeding of several mixing lines possible
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AZO COMPONENTER® in circular design

Automatic weighing of minor and micro components: AZO COMPONENTER® Step

Manual weighing of minor and micro components harbours risks and is prone to errors. The more components and batches come together, the greater the risk to product safety and quality.
With the AZO COMPONENTER® Step, we enable you to weigh these minor and micro components, such as pigments, dyes or flavourings, automatically and accurately to the gram. This improves product safety, increases production efficiency and ensures the hygiene and batch purity of your products. All in compliance with strict, industry-specific specifications.
 

Your AZO plus points at a glance

  • Maximum product safety thanks to tracking & tracing
  • Reproducibility of process steps and weighing results
  • High and consistent recipe accuracy
  • High accuracy and cycle times
  • Strict batch separation and thus avoidance of cross-contamination
  • Modularly expandable, making it flexible for product changeovers
  • High throughput rates thanks to fully automatic filling and transport within the system
  • Effective production planning possible
  • Low cleaning effort
  • Target containers can optionally be fitted with inliners
  • Fulfilment of high hygiene requirements
  • Reduction of physical and mental stress for employees
Find out more
AZO COMPONENTER® Step - Automatic weighing of minor and micro components
AZO COMPONENTER® Step - Automatic weighing of minor and micro components

Manual weighing centre for very small quantities: AZO ManDos

Some very small quantities are difficult or inefficient to automate. However, it is precisely these very small quantities that often have a decisive influence on the recipe. For this reason, we have developed AZO ManDos - an operator-guided, manual weighing centre that combines all the necessary components.

Scales, storage containers, work tables, vacuum systems, barcode scanners or label printers including the necessary software - all combined in one smart system!
 

Your AZO plus points at a glance

  • Can be used as a stand-alone system
  • Can be expanded into a comprehensive, networked batch production system
  • Consistent operator guidance
  • Complete documentation
  • Raw material identification
  • Order, recipe and article management
  • Warehouse management
  • Calibration data creation
  • Host coupling
  • Validation capability
Find out more
ManDos – operator-guided manual weighing system for micro quantities
ManDos – operator-guided manual weighing system for micro quantities

Cyclone screeners directly from the inventor.
Whether safety screening, fractionating, eliminating foreign matter, breaking up lumps or loosening up products: With the AZO Cyclone screener type DA you can perform all these tasks - smart, simple and safe.

And best of all: Thanks to self-dosing, you don't even need an upstream dosing unit!
 

Your AZO plus points at a glance

  • Low overall height
  • No additional dosing unit required
  • Can be pulled out completely without tools
  • Drive with dosing screw can be dismantled by loosening quick-release fasteners
  • Drive with sieve can be pulled out and swivelled using a pull-out device
  • Quick and easy inspection of the sieve basket
  • Made of chrome-nickel steel in various surface finishes
  • Fulfils IFS standard and HACCP
  • Automatic separation of foreign bodies
  • Clean and safe end product
Find out more
Cyclone screener type DA

The new AZO production control system Kastor ACAS offers an intuitive solution for controlling AZO systems. Based on the latest technical standards, we have developed an innovative system consisting of MES, batch and visualisation functions and implemented a completely new operating concept. The systems can be operated both stationary and mobile, allowing your individual requirements to be ideally mapped.

Your AZO plus points at a glance
  • Seamless documentation of production processes (e.g. batch records, balance sheets)
  • Individually configurable access protection
  • Industry-specific functions, such as allergen management
  • Configurable workflows for mapping system-specific operating steps, including plausibility checks to prevent errors
Find out more
AZO Production control system
AZO Production control system - mobile device

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Topic
The storage, discharge, weighing and dosing of large and small components, as well as the precise feeding of mixers, kneaders, mills and conches are prerequisites for the manufacture of quality products. In addition to high weighing accuracy, even with high throughput lines, process and product safety play an important role.


Using a system that has already been implemented in the confectionery industry, Jessica Brenneis shows in the webinar how we successfully master the challenges of handling typical raw materials such as sugar, cocoa or milk powder.

After registering, you will receive an e-mail with a link to our recording of the AZO Forum presentation in English.