The Latest Host Baking News - Kissing GmbH

Issue no. 1 - August 2002
KISSING GmbH - 58706 Menden
The latest host baking news
Dear Client,
Dear Reader,
It is a great pleasure to be able to
present you with the first client magazine
in the one hundred and fifty
year history of our company.
"de Bakker" customers
taken over by KISSING
The success story of an international
Dutch company will now be continued
in the Sauerland. In the future, the
clients of de Bakker host baking
machinery in Hulst will be looked
after by KISSING GmbH, Menden.
We want to inform you on a regular
basis in the future regarding our
company and our products.
It is particularly encouraging
to have been able to
take on the clients of the
former Dutch company "de
Bakker". 80-year-old A. de
Bakker closed down his
company and as a result
the number of KISSING GmbH customers
has grown further. We feel
committed to offering both our present
customers and the new clients
quality products and service. We feel
fortified, our existence is safeguarded
and we can provide you with a
long-term service guarantee.
KISSING's team is delighted to be
your partner for the future.
A. de Bakker, a resourceful engineer,
had been searching for a long time for
a solution to enable continuation
of his Dutch host baking
machinery company of the
same name. His state of
health and the fact that he is,
after all, 80 years of age
prompted him to enter into
negotiations with KISSING
GmbH and to dispose of parts
from his workshop, spare
parts and host cutting equipment
ready for sale.
Everything was ready to roll by
November 2001 when A. de Bakker
and Uta Kissing reached an agreement.
During the sales negotiations
A. de Bakker made it a condition that
KISSING also continued to look after
his old clients in the usual way in the
future.
Mr de Bakker looked on with a wistful
eye as his last items of machinery and
a large number of containers bearing
spare parts were loaded onto a truck
The pictured de Bakker host cutting
machine is still on offer at KISSING
and available for purchase by interested
parties.
travelling in the direction of Menden
in the Sauerland at the beginning of
the year.
de Bakker had been supplying host
bakeries worldwide with sturdy and
durable equipment for nearly fifty
years - just like KISSING.
Menden's host baking equipment
sales manager, Klaus Danne, wrote
to around 300 bakeries on de Bakker's
client list in February 2002. The
first clients made contact just a few
days later. They were pleased to
respond and placed initial orders for
spare parts.
The last piece of de Bakker boring
machines was sold to Togo after only
five weeks.
Sincerely, Uta Kissing
In this issue:
Modern host baking system goes to Cape Town, South Africa
New non-cutting laser engraving machine
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Ultramodern host baking system goes
to Cape Town, South Africa
Everyone at KISSING was and still is
delighted. In October last year managing
director Uta Kissing was able to
surprise her employees with a major
order from South Africa. And the order
from Cape Town was far more
than a normal order. The large host
baking machine with eighteen baking
plates included a whole range of other
equipment needed for operating a
host bakery. A cake removal machine
and two multiple cutting machines
for cutting out host cakes were ordered
in addition to eight transport carriages.
Several mechanics, electricians and
engravers were busy for several
weeks transforming the basic machine
that had come from Austria into a
technically finely tuned host baking
machine.
It was the engravers' task to equip
the eighteen heated baking plates
with the alpha and omega motifs
prescribed by the client. Filigree
work was necessary to put these motifs
into place on the cast baking plates
using an ultramodern laser engraving
machine.
The pictured host baking
machine has been
designed and built in
accordance with the
latest developments in
technology and boasts
a whole range of special
features as
against machinery of
older design.
The host paste, produced according
to a finely coordinated recipe, is
conveyed by an electric pump to the
rotating baking plates. Each of these
eighteen baking plates is regulated
by an ultramodern temperature control
unit.
When running, the machine produces
up to 540 cakes per hour, these being
sufficient for around 23,000 hosts.
KISSING's final product weighs almost
two tons and is surrounded by
a high-quality, corrosion-proof stainless
steel housing.
host baking machine
Where as operating personnel is
needed to remove the baked cakes
manually from the less modern host
baking machines and place these in
appropriate containers, this new development
provides a purpose-built
removal machine (see lower illustration).
The host cakes are transported to a
container able to hold around one
hundred cakes via a polished stainless
steel plate slide. It takes approximately
ten minutes for the container
to fill up.
Automatic host cake removal

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540 cakes on every transport carriage
Hosts with various designs
The cakes are removed from the
container at another location and
then sorted into small portable
stands so that they do not come into
contact with each other. Enough
space remains to allow hot water vapour
to reach the cakes later on.
Eight large transport carriages, each
able to hold eighteen portable
stands, are supplied so that the overall
baking and processing sequence
of events is rational and fast. In all,
each carriage can receive 540 cakes.
The transport carriages are pushed into
a separate moistening room where
they are treated with water vapour.
It is only after the moistening procedure
that the cakes are prepared sufficiently
for the actual hosts to be cut
out. Due to the large number of pieces
involved, a KISSING multiple cutting
machine is used in order to be able to
deal rapidly with this work sequence.
Jochen Bendel, KISSING's
production manager of
host baking equipment,
explains, "Depending on
the host size, we are able
Multiple cutting machine
for cutting out hosts,
including drawer.
to cut out up to fifty four hosts with
every press stroke."
A test run under authentic conditions
is compulsory before delivery.
It must be tested whether the necessary
and required baking quality is
achieved long-term.
The machine was only carefully
packed for overseas transport after
the high quality requirement could
be guaranteed long-term.
Transport carriage
with portable stands
for around 540 cakes.
Since over ten years Jochen Bendel is the
responsible manager of the host baking
equipment by Kissing. Kritically he controlls
the new manufactured machine.

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A successful team!
Magdalene Noll has been with KISSING for twenty five years.
During a meeting with
Mrs Magdalene Noll
(centre of picture)
It was possible to celebrate a special
kind of jubilee at KISSING
amongst a circle of colleagues. Magdalene
Noll celebrated twenty five
years of service with her colleagues
in September 2001. It is the person
who is so remarkable and not the
number of years.
It was back in 1964, at the age of 15,
that Magdalene Noll joined the traditional
company, that had already
been established for one hundred
years at the time, as first female
apprentice. Up until this point in time
KISSING had almost exclusively
employed male staff members. That
has changed radically in the meantime.
Today almost half of the employees
are women. But above all it is
the good working atmosphere and
the team spirit of all employees that
guarantee KISSING's success.
During her time Magdalene
Noll has had dealings
with customers
all over the world. "It
really is very interesting
to know to which
exotic countries we
supply our host baking machines",
she says proudly.
The reliable KISSING baking machines
and accessories have been
supplied to nearly all continents of
the world for many decades. Whether
it's Africa including, for example,
Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Kenya,
Korea, Japan and China in the
Far East, or Australia, the USA, Chile,
Peru, Mexico and Micronesia -
these countries are just as much
KISSING's clients as nearly every
European country.
Magdalene Noll's activities are extremely
varied. As she has a very
good knowledge of the French and
English languages she is available
to the customers both on the telephone
and also during personal visits
to Menden in the Sauerland as a
competent discussion partner.
She is responsible for the foreign
language correspondence, produces
quotations and confirmations of order.
She takes firm action for her customers
when it comes to ensuring
that ordered goods reach the customer
on schedule.
Many months, sometimes even a year
or two, expire from working out
the quotation to the customer placing
an order. Securing the financing
can sometimes be a longdrawn-out
problem for the customers.
Frequently it is charitable associations
or private persons who
make donations so that the countries
populated by Christians are able
to set up their own host bakeries.
Greater pains must be taken with the
individual customs regulations depending
on the country to which the
host baking equipment is supplied.
It is quite often necessary to fill out
pages of forms until the customs authorities
give their consent for export.
"We'll see to correct order processing",
Jochen Bendel, Klaus Danne,
Uta Kissing, Magdalene Noll

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A new non-cutting laser
engraving machine!
Special requirements are no longer a
problem. More or less every motif
can now be worked into a baking plate.
However, it has certainly not been
easy to master the task. Even KIS-
SING's experienced and highly motivated
engravers needed almost a
whole year in order to be able to
operate the ultramodern laser engraving
machine, delivered at the beginning
of 2001, down to the last detail.
"We are now in the very first position
with this new laser technology and
can offer our customers interesting
advantages", said 28 year old master
engraver Michael Hanckowiak.
Assistent by a modern CAD
drawing programme, Michael
Hanckowiak designs the oulines
to be processed and subsequently
engaved onto the
baking plates.
The new laser engraving machine
had to pass the first test when an order
was received from Gdansk in Poland.
The "Braniewo" monastery
had asked KISSING to produce a baking
iron with a Christmas motif following
an old historic model (see illustration).
Thanks to the new hightech
machine the realisation of this
order was relatively uncomplicated.
Once the model had been scanned
into the computer the motif was edited
on the CAD screen and programmed
for laser engraving. The
laser beam, concentrated to 0.03
mm, needed about twenty hours to
burn the desired motif into the iron
cast plates. Contrary to classic engraving
technology, this was a noncutting
burning process. It takes 75
watts for this metal processing without
the use of tools and it replaces
the earlier hard metal cutter or extremely
costly engraving technology.
In the meantime, large, round baking
plates (see illustration) are also produced
on this laser machine with the
widest variety of host sizes and various
motifs.
Regarded as a typical Polish
Christmas greeting - a wafer
with Christmas motifs.
The baking plates are engraved automatically
and with high precision on the laser
engraving machine.

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KISSING - innovative
Host borer
now convertible
for compressed air
operation!
Manual baking
devices in
strong demand
KISSING's technicians
are
constantly working
on product
improvements.
They have now
come up with
something that
noticeably simplifies
work for
the machine operators. The host
boring machine, operated up to now
by means of a foot-pedal, can now
also be converted for compressed
air operation.
An ever increasing number of host
bakeries want to make things easier
for their employees. KISSING has
now met this wish. The Hbo-70 or
Hbo-83 host boring machine as well
as the de Bakker equipment can
now be converted to compressed
air. Anyone already having worked
with these machines for several
hours will appreciate this conversion.
Up until now it had been necessary
to trigger the lowering of
the borer by stamping sharply on
the foot-pedal.
The HB-90 and HB-95 host baking
devices, which are of interest to
host bakeries with small or mediumsized
production quantities, are very
popular on account of the simple yet
precise baking process.
During the last decade KISSING was
able to sell hundreds of these devices
all over the world.
Some of the bakeries even order two
devices for parallel operation in order
to increase the hourly performance.
The special features on these
devices in a nutshell:
The HB-90 baking plates are 376 mm
in diameter and those of the HB-95
model 300 mm.
An electronic control device on the
HB-90 ensures consistent temperature
distribution to the upper and lower
baking plates.
Around 80 to 120 hosts can be obtained
from the cakes depending on
host diameter.
Each baking iron can be equipped
with an individual engraving for the
hosts.
Only a single movement of the hand
is necessary to remove any paste
that has overflown during baking,
thus ensuring that a clean-cut host
cake can be removed from the baking
iron.
We can do so much more ……
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We have been designing and producing religious articles for 150 years.
Order the new catalogue "Religious Articles".
Now, after about four hours installation
work, it is possible to fit a
pneumatically operated foot-pedal
that reacts to foot contact.
KISSING GmbH - Werler Straße 18 - 58706 Menden
Telefon: 02373 - 9371- 0 Telefax: 02373 - 9371- 77
e-Mail: kissing@uww.de