Forty Years of Bakery Engineering
Fraschetti Consulting and Sales LLC is Ed Fraschetti. From his first machine in his early twenties, he has spent a career building equipment for commercial bakeries, and developed the first rotary blade scoring systems in the USA and Europe in the early 1980s.
You Deal With the Engineer
From early in his career, Ed has been an innovator in the baking industry. His inventions have included scoring machines, conveyorized storage and retrieval systems, dough handling systems and elevators.
He also served as a strategic partner in building and running plants, covering acquisitions, equipment decisions, board seats and planning.
He is not taking on new machine builds or plant consulting. What that history buys you now is a straight answer about parts: which blade your head takes, and whether the blade is even what is wrong.
Machines That Did Not Exist Yet
Inventions across four decades of commercial bakery engineering.
Four Decades, Briefly
- Early 20s
The first machine
Ed built his first bakery machine in his early twenties and never stopped. What began as one machine became a career spent designing equipment that did not exist off the shelf.
- Early 1980s
Rotary blade scoring
Ed developed the first rotary blade scoring systems in the USA and Europe. It is the method the business is still built around today, and the reason bakeries call about scores that will not hold.
- 2007
Great Buns Bakery fire rebuild
After a fire destroyed much of the bakery, Fraschetti helped rebuild the equipment: repairing the oven and extending it by three meters, plus repairing the proofer and adding 25% to its capacity.
- 2012
Orlando Baking proofer conversion
Converted a rack proofer to a tray proofer, tripling tray capacity without expanding the building, inside a three week shutdown window.
- Today
Engineer-direct, nationwide
The machine-building years are behind us. What continues is the parts side: scoring blades, hubs, shaft hangers and bearings, in stock and shipped nationwide to the bakeries still running these machines.
Conveyors, Plants and Fabrication
A few frames from projects. The full set is in the gallery.
The Parts Are Still On the Shelf
Blades, hubs, hangers and bearings for the machines he built. Shipped nationwide.