Food Extruder Catalogue

MALIK’S Food Extruders
Food Extruders employ single or twin screws to transport wet flour inside the Extruder and
compact and cook the dough to required degree, and extrude out of suitably shaped die
opening. Following categories of Extruders are used for Food processing:
1) Direct Expanded Extruders: The Extruder consists of single screw & Barrel segments.
The food materials are pre-mixed with water and Extruded out of die opening to produce
directly expanded products from Corn Meal, Soy Meal and other flours. The process is
generally adiabatic with the heat for cooking the products coming from friction and mechanical
working of products by the rotating screw at high speed. The water converts to superheated
steam due to high temperature in the product and is held at high pressure inside the machine.
When the product emerges from the shaping die, the products expand immediately and become
light weight, because the steam escapes out of the product due to sudden drop in pressure at
the die. The products needs to be dried to remove excess moisture.
Typical products from such machines are: Corn Curls, Potato fingers, Cheese Balls,
Rings, Soy Nuggets, Aqua Feeds, etc.
2) High Shear Cooking Extruders: Single screw type, Geletinisers, mainly used to cook food at high
temperature & shear (HTST). They are provided with external heating & cooling system for
proper temperature control. The Conical and tapered screw are responsible for high shear generated
for cooking of ingredients.
Used for pre-gel starch, pre-cooked flours, etc.
3) Formers: Formers are Low Shear Single or Twin screw Extruders. They are used to re-compress
or densify the already cooked, hot and moist dough, while imparting very little mechanical shear.
Former also serves to “relax” and cool the already cooked extrudate (from Cooker) to be propelled
through the final die.
Used for producing Snack Pellets, as final means for shaping and cutting, and in production of
cold formed shapes from food materials, Extruding Pasta products from Durum Wheat into various
shapes like noodles, tubes, wheels, etc.
For all above processes, water is essential and important ingredient to raw-material. The product
from the Extruder has excess moisture present, which needs to be evaporated in suitable Dryers
followed by cooling, before final packing of products.
Agitator or Mixer: It is first step in Food processing plant, used to dry mix all the ingredients before
feeding to Extruder. Water is usually, not added at this stage. Consists of ‘a mixing shaft fixed with
number of paddles or arms for thorough mixing of dry ingredients.
Conveyors: Elevating screws are used to transport the pre-mixed raw-materials to the Pre-conditioner
Vessel via the Loading Bin/Hopper.
Pre-Conditioner: It has single or double agitating shafts fitted with several mixing arms or pedals working
closely with “U” Shaped Vessel. It is used for mixing water with the dry ingredients for feeding to the
Extruder.
Snack Pellet Production Line:
Snack Pellet are termed as 3-G Snacks or In-direct expanded products- so called because they are
fully expanded after Extrusion, by frying in hot oil or heated in hot air.
Variety of shapes are commonly produced as 2D figures. Recently 3D Pellets have been in great
demand and remain hollow after expansion by frying, e.g Pillow, Grain shape, Triangular, etc. 3D
shapes call for special dies and Cutter, different from Conventional die face cutters used for 2D shapes.
Snack Pellet line consists of following components:
1) Flour Mixer. 2) Elevating screws 3) Loading Bin/Hopper 4) Pre-conditioner 5) Geletiniser

(Cooker) 6) Cooler Mixer 7) Former 8) Cutter 9) Pre-Dryer 10) Main Dryer 11) Cooling Belt.
Pasta Extrusion:
Pasta products includes Macaroni, Spaghetti, Noodle production and other shapes. They are produced
using Former or Low Shear Extruder for Cold processing of Milled Durum Wheat or Semolina premixed
with water. The homogenized dough extrudes out of a shaping die and cut into small lengths to get
pasta. As before, the wet product is transferred to The Pre-Dryer and Main Dryer and finally to the
Cooling Belt before being finally packaged.
Pasta Line comprises: 1) Flour Mixer 2) Elevating screws 3) Pre-mixer 4) Vacuum Capsulism
5) Extruder 6) Shaping Die 7) Cutter 8) Pre-Dryer 9) Main Dryer 10) Cooling Belt.
Vacuum Capsulism ensures removal of any air bubbles from the hydrated flour before feeding in the
Extruder, as any entrapped air in the dough will result in “chalky” appearance and weak product.
Examples of Extruders being offered by us:
MEFE-300 Single screw Cooker Extruder for pre-cooked MEFE-800 Single Screw Cooker Extruder used as
flours (Geletaniser in Snack Pellet Plant). Capacity 300 Kg/Hr. Geletiniser in Snack Pellet Plant. Capacity 800 Kg/Hr.
Mini Extruder 50 Kg/Hr for

300 Kg/Hr cap. Pasta Press expanded product from
500 Kgs capacity Flour Mixer (Extruder) corn meal
MESEB-200 Extruder for producing Corotating Twin screw Food
Soy Nuggets from defatted soy meal Food Extruder components Extruder for Lab trials & small production
Multi Deck Continous Belt Dryer used in Extrusion line for producing Soy Nuggets/Protein
Snack Food line 300 Kg/Hr capacity
Floating fish feed

from direct expanded
Extruder
Just some of the many

product possibilities on our
Extruders.....
Manufacturers:
MALIK ENGINEERS
Unit-1, Shailesh Ind. Estate-1, Navghar, Vasai(East)-401 210, M.S., India. Telefax: 91 250 2390839
Off: B-203, Atlanta, Evershine nagar, Malad(West),Mumbai-400 064, India. Telefax: 91 22 28830751
Email: [email protected] website: www.malikengg.com

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MALIK’S Food Extruders

Snack Pellet Production Line:

1) Flour Mixer. 2) Elevating screws 3) Loading Bin/Hopper 4) Pre-conditioner 5) Geletiniser

Examples of Extruders being offered by us:

Mini Extruder 50 Kg/Hr for

Floating fish feed

Just some of the many

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