Silo Dosing System

A silo dosing system automates the storage and batching of bulk powdered raw materials, replacing bag handling with an integrated chain: silo storage, automatic feeding, pneumatic conveying, precision metering and dosing, and intelligent control.

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Product Overview

Wanttone’s silo dosing system stores flour, sugar powder, starch and other powders in silos from 1 to 100 tons per unit, then conveys and doses them automatically to your dough mixers according to recipe. By removing manual weighing and bag tipping, the system fully automates measurement and batching — dramatically improving the working environment, dosing consistency and production capacity of biscuit, cookie, cake and bread production lines.

Flour delivery pipework feeding the mixers downstream of ingredient dosing
Flour delivery pipework into mixers — downstream process reference

Capabilities & Applications

Key Features

  • Bulk Storage at Any Scale

    Silos are customized from 1 ton to 100 tons per unit, supporting bagged-flour operations upgrading to bulk tanker delivery as volume grows.

  • End-to-End Automatic Batching – One integrated system covers material storage, automatic feeding, pneumatic conveying, metering and batching, and intelligent control

    cutting human participation and eliminating weighing errors and material omission.

  • Consistent Recipe Accuracy

    Automated metering and dosing guarantee every batch matches its formulation, protecting dough quality and reducing raw-material giveaway across shifts.

  • Clean, Enclosed Material Flow

    Enclosed pneumatic conveying with dust-controlled loading platforms keeps powder contained from silo to mixer, improving plant hygiene and worker health.

  • Multi-Line, Multi-Material Capability

    The control system doses different materials to different destination mixers by recipe, serving several production lines from one silo battery.

  • Engineered as One System – Silo count and volume, conveying routes, dosing points and control logic are designed together with your mixers and factory layout

    not assembled from generic parts.

Applications

  • The silo dosing system serves biscuit and cookie production lines, cake and Swiss roll lines, bread plants, potato chip and snack lines, and central flour-handling rooms — any facility where powdered raw materials must be stored and dosed accurately at scale. It handles wheat flour, rice flour, starch, sugar powder and similar food powders, and is the standard infrastructure upgrade for factories moving from bagged material to bulk silo supply with fully automatic batching.

A Defined Role in the Line

  1. Upstream Requirements

    Confirm the incoming material or product condition, target throughput, infeed height and available utilities.

  2. Core Machine Function

    A silo dosing system automates the storage and batching of bulk powdered raw materials, replacing bag handling with an integrated chain: silo storage, automatic feeding, pneumatic conveying, precision metering and dosing, and intelligent control.

  3. Downstream Integration

    Match discharge height, line speed, control signals, guarding and cleaning access with the next operation.

Specifications & Configuration

Technical Parameters for Silo Dosing System
ItemSpecification
Silo volume1–100 T per silo, customizable
Silo configurationSingle or multi-silo battery, indoor or outdoor
Process chainStorage → automatic feeding → pneumatic conveying → metering & batching → intelligent control
MaterialsFlour, sugar powder, starch, rice flour, milk powder
LoadingDust-controlled loading platform; bulk tanker intake optional
ConveyingEnclosed pneumatic conveying
Dosing destinationsOne or multiple mixers, recipe-managed
ControlPLC + touch screen, batch records

Silo sizing, conveying distance and dosing points are engineered to your daily consumption and factory drawing. All parameters customizable.

The Wanttone Difference

A silo battery touches every part of your plant — civil works, material flow, mixer scheduling and hygiene — so it must be designed by a company that engineers whole factories, not just tanks. Wanttone is an all-round biscuit line solutions provider and an operating biscuit producer: we size silos against your real consumption curve, route conveying around your building, and integrate dosing logic with your mixers, because we build the entire production line ourselves. Under ISO 9001 management with 40+ years of biscuit engineering behind us, we deliver design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and operator training as one package, with lifetime after-sales support and dispatched technicians. One accountable partner from foundation drawing to fully automatic batching.

Frequently Asked Questions

What silo sizes are available?

Silos are customized from 1 ton to 100 tons per unit. We size the battery against your daily flour consumption, delivery cycle and available space — many customers combine one large flour silo with smaller silos for sugar powder and starch.

Can the system dose to several mixers on different lines?

Yes. The PLC manages multiple silos, materials and destination mixers, sequencing conveying and dosing so each line receives its own recipe automatically, with batch records for traceability.

Can we start with bagged flour and add silos later?

Yes. The system is designed for expansion: begin with a dust-controlled bag-tipping station and add bulk silos with tanker intake as your volume grows. We plan the layout for future silo positions from day one.

How does the system improve plant hygiene?

Powder travels in enclosed pipelines from storage to mixer, with dust collection at loading and transfer points. Manual bag opening, spillage and airborne flour are largely eliminated, cutting housekeeping labor and contamination risk.

Which production lines can a silo dosing system serve?

Biscuit and cookie lines, cracker lines, cake and Swiss roll lines, bread plants and even potato chip lines — anywhere powdered raw materials are consumed at industrial volume.