Our Automated Commercial Bakery
Constructed in 2014, and expanded in 2017, our highly automated commercial bakery was designed from the ground up to power an innovative new vision in high speed baked goods manufacturing in the USA. Currently, our SQF Certified wholesale bakery features 8 production lines and 5 product platforms, and supports over 300 full time bakery jobs in Indianapolis.
Combining the best bakery equipment and technology with thoughtful integrated processes, our state-of-the-art commercial bakery produces baked goods products for some of the largest QSR, Fast Casual and retail instore bakery brands in North America.
CraftMark Bakery — The New Standard in Commercial Bakery Automation
CraftMark Bakery was built to set a new standard in commercial bakery automation, and today is credited as one of the most automated commercial bakeries in North America. Our large contract manufacturing bakery spans 345,000 square feet, including an impressive 65,000 square feet devoted to freezer storage for ingredients as well as our bakery products like frozen cookie dough, fully baked cookies, pre-deposited muffin batter, frozen bread dough and pizza flatbreads. Best of all, we still have room to grow and expand our capabilities, whether by volume or by adding additional baked goods categories for our customers in the Foodservice and In-Store Bakery markets.
As one of the largest European-style commercial bakeries in the US, a distinguishing feature of our bakery is the dedicated, self-contained production rooms, allowing each of our 8 production lines to have independent temperature control for product quality and consistency. Our dry and liquid bulk ingredients are handled in enclosed silo rooms, while circulation corridors are routed along the perimeter, eliminating foot traffic and forklifts in production spaces. Walk-on ceilings with overhead utility lines run above our bakery rooms, enabling maintenance to occur without interference.
As for the production rooms themselves, they feature highly-automated production lines using the most technologically advanced bakery equipment in the world, with automated mixing and ingredients delivery, automated bagging and case packing, spiral cooling and freezing towers, and robotic palletizing.
Modern QA for Best In Class Bakery Food Manufacturers
Excellence at Every Touchpoint is our core tenet, and that means QA is at the heart of everything that happens at CraftMark Bakery. Each bakery manufacturing line has a dedicated QA lab integrated right in the room, staffed by a QA specialist, to ensure bakery products meet customer specifications at every step.
Random product sampling occurs throughout, where the product is tested and baked to ensure consistent batch quality. State of the art bakery testing equipment is in place, including customer-specific ovens to ensure the baked goods perform properly. With spec sheets on hand, our QA specialists ensure the weight, color and size are on track, both before and after baking.
Smart Bakery System – The Brain of our Baking Technology
CraftMark’s automated commercial bakery leverages the latest enterprise bakery technology for optimal visibility. Our Smart Bakery System ensures that quality information and metrics are fed real-time throughout the organization. In production, the system ensures optimal batching and automated mixing to standard product inputs, increasing yields.
A comprehensive portfolio of enterprise software enables CraftMark Bakery to make informed decisions based on real-time, accurate data, for example in ensuring the reliable inventory of our ingredient inputs. And our centralized supplier tracking system ensures visibility and documentation of all ingredients to the source.
This high tech ERP backbone of baking technology enables CraftMark Bakery to be agile and responsive in a continually changing contract manufacturing bakery environment.
But our commercial bakery automation is just half the story — only in combination with our baking expertise and customer focus does CraftMark Bakery redefine the commercial baking industry.
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