INTERVIEW WITH CAKE CONCEPT

Cake Concept is a niche engineering company and produce innovative products for food market. The headquarter and the facility are in the Netherlands and sales and service offices are in Turkey. Cake Concept can provide support to its partners anytime of the year, and besides design products according to Industry 4.0.

Designs are unique for the customer requirements and fit designs to its partners’ standards, recipe. Mainly produce systems for cake, confectionery and for functional food markets.

Easy Engineering: What are the main areas of activity of the company?

Cake Concept: Cake Concepts produce systems to fit in different markets. Main designs are suitable to produce pancake, pancake sandwiches, cake, waffle, donuts, bread sandwiches and more..

Pancake systems are quite popular products for ice cream, confectionery and protein market, besides with funcake system many different shapes are possible to be produced.

E.E: What’s the news for 2021 about new products?

Cake Concept: Adapting our systems to other markets to produce functional foods is the main aim of 2021. Decreasing cycle time providing more output with low cost solutions to our partners is another successful project of the year.

E.E: What are the ranges of products?

Cake Concept: Cake Concepts is in food market with 4 different ways. Pancake, funcake, bread sandwiches and Dutch waffles.

Sandwiching pancake machine is suitable for many sdifferent markets such as chilled, frozen, breakfast, protein and confectionery. Pancake is a good taste carriers so you can use any filling in between pancakes or just consume pancakes.

Funcake system can produce many different shapes for waffle, 3 dimensional shape cake, donuts and more. Moreover, system is suitable for deposit filling in center of the products. Different shape and unique production style provides the partners have unique test and shapes. This put them front in the market competition.

Bread sandwiches are getting popular products for European and American markets. Different shapes production with high automation makes this system more popular.

Another system to produce traditional Dutch waffles. The Dutch waffles are cut and delectable products for people. Recently people start to use different toppings instead of caramel and this makes these products more attractive.

E.E: At what stage is the market where you are currently active?

Cake Concept: We, as Cake Concepts, provides unique systems to meet with our partners’ and recipe requirement. We can lead the projects, help for recipe development with our technologists and provide turnkey projects to be sure projects will be successful. We can even provide our systems or we can provide turnkey solutions.

E.E: What can you tell us about market trends?

Cake Concept: Trends are converting recently. People are looking for more functional products with more protein and less sugar. Consumers are looking for more high quality and tasteful products. One component or combination of two components products are not popular anymore. More sophisticated products are much more popular.

E.E: What are the most innovative products marketed?

Cake Concept: Our bread sandwich system is the most innovative product of the year. We can provide highly automatic sandwiching system with any shape and stamp unit possible. There are many different fillings can be deposit in between breads and co-extrusion is also possible.

E.E: What estimations do you have for 2021?

Cake Concept: Consumers behavior is changing in every country. Including pandemic situation effects consumer expectation as a result market requirement are changing. Consumers are looking for more healthy products and producers are looking for more efficient and automatic system to meet this requirement of the market. Our estimation we’ll have more healthy and attractive products recently.

As Cake Concepts, we are speeding up our systems and providing the best and brand new technologies in our systems. We are working on our carbon foodprint and adapting machine learning systems in our machines. We firmly believe soon there can be seen highly automatic and clever systems will control the factories.