Experience at the booth iba 2023

Baked Goods Baggers at IBA

The company will display two machines from its Ibonhart brand: the fully automatic IBPRO Bagger, the world's most advanced bagging system available today, and an IB30 Hand Bagger, designed to provide an economical solution and ease of use for small to medium size businesses.

Bradman Lake will showcase its baked goods bagging equipment at the IBA show in Munich, Germany, from 22-26 October 2023 on stand # B1-190.

The company will display two machines from its Ibonhart brand: the fully automatic IBPRO Bagger, the world's most advanced bagging system available today, and an IB30 Hand Bagger, designed to provide an economical solution and ease of use for small to medium size businesses.

The IBPRO Bagger is capable of bagging a wide variety of products, including sandwich bread, artisan-style products, sliced or unsliced. The machine can be equipped with a half-loaf infeed and customised to meet each bakery's specific needs. It can be paired with Bradman Lake's range of slicer machines including its fully automatically adjusting slice thickness IB420 Band Slicer for the ultimate bakery bagging system.

The IB30 Hand Bagger is ideal for bakeries looking for a manual bagging process. The machine is easy to use and can be operated by one person. It is also compatible with a variety of bag sizes and types.

Both machines are designed to be efficient, space-saving, and easy to maintain. They also incorporate ergonomic features that make them simple to operate. They are available for purchase and immediate delivery after the show!

A wide variety of bag sealers can be positioned on the discharge of our machines, giving the bakery complete flexibility.

Bread bakery equipment forms a small part of our packaging machinery portfolio, we also manufacture a wide range of equipment and systems to meet our customers' packaging automation needs.

Visitors to the booth will also have an opportunity to see curated video collections. These videos will illustrate how the packaging equipment on display seamlessly integrates with Bradman Lake's upstream equipment, that includes product distribution and feeders and downstream equipment that includes cartoners, case packers, shrink wrappers and palletisers, creating a flawless end-to-end process. This reaffirms Bradman Lake as the ultimate one-stop shop for packaging solutions – where innovation meets integration.

Features and benefits for all Bradman Lake's equipment

Bradman Lake packaging equipment sets the benchmark for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging. Equipment can be supplied as a 'stand-alone' machine for low speed, hand-fed applications, or as a fully automatic system to meet the demands of the most sophisticated hi-tech processing and packaging lines. They have become the machines of choice for many multinational manufacturers operating in the bakery & biscuit, chocolate & confectionery, dry foods, chilled & frozen foods, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries.

Experience

Bradman Lake has a large installed base; our customers benefit from over 75 years of knowledge in designing and building packaging equipment. Bradman Lake is an established brand with a high reputation for machine reliability and value for money worldwide. Its position as an innovative, progressive and forward-thinking global supplier of packaging solutions derives from vast industry experience, a consultative customer driven approach, delivering commercially viable solutions with strong project management and a commendable health and safety record.  

All Bradman Lake products are the result of thoroughgoing research and development and are developed from an undertaking that every project, no matter how small or technically challenging, will be a custom solution to meet exact customer requirements. This responsive, solutions-based approach has helped establish Bradman Lake as a leading global provider of future-proof packaging technology.

Flexibility, “Future Proof” Principal

The ergonomic modular design provides the ultimate flexibility to handle a wide range of products, carton formats and sizes that can be rapidly adapted to specific requirements, enabling our customers to easily meet the demands of the fast-changing markets at any time in the future.

Sustainability

Environmental sustainability is an important focus for Bradman Lake, both in machine development and business operation. As well as promoting recycled packaging, it seeks to minimize packaging material waste through various equipment features. Ergonomic equipment design enables concurrent task completion in one compact frame, reducing spatial requirements, lowering energy and air consumption while ensuring no harmful emissions are produced.  

Bradman Lake is proud to communicate its machinery helps to remove many millions of single use plastic trays year-on-year!

Safety and hygiene

Robust and well-built to the latest safety and hygiene standards. Upgradable machine construction to handle wash-down applications that are required in the food and healthcare industries. Machine guarding has been designed to provide operator safety, maximum visibility of operation and excellent machine access.

From Process to Pallet 

Bradman Lake provides true, single-source turnkey systems, with project management from initial concept to site acceptance and beyond. The benefits to customers include commonality of engineering standards and parts; a single servo motor size, common wiring patterns and identical HMI look-and-feel all contribute to ease of use and operation; a single point of contact for procurement; project manager and aftermarket; FAT for full system occurs in single location and systems are fully integrated and tested prior to delivery resulting in expedited start up.

Intuitive HMIs and a common control platform offer customers an easier method of extracting information from a single source, as well as seamless exchange of data upstream and downstream. A single network infrastructure offers unprecedented levels of visibility, flexibility, and scalability to respond to market opportunities and operational threats.

Initial Capital Savings

The core competence of the equipment is its unique capability for seamless future integration with other Bradman Lake innovative equipment to achieve full automation and yet retain initial capital savings.  

Smart Layout

Compact footprint, which is available in several orientations to suit plant layout and incorporates narrow integral electrical cabinets with easy access. All machines are designed with minimum frame sizes and easy-access guard design.

Customer Service

Backed by readily available and award-winning customer support, commercial commitment, resources, and spare parts delivery.

About Bradman Lake

Established in 1948, Bradman Lake provides innovative packaging solutions to an international client base. The company is a leading designer and manufacturer of packing machinery and turnkey systems to the bakery & biscuit, chocolate & confectionery, dry foods, chilled and frozen foods, consumer, pharmaceutical, and healthcare sectors. In 2022 the company was awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise. Bradman Lake's manufacturing plants are located at Beccles and Bristol in the UK and Rock Hill, SC, in the United States. Bradman Lake is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multidisciplined UK engineering and manufacturing group, Langley Holdings plc.