Lawer: take control of powder recipes

A weighing specialist for the work before mixing

Lawer’s relevance begins upstream of the mixer: organising how powder ingredients are stored, weighed and handed over as a recipe.

The company designs dosing and dispensing equipment for powders and liquids across food, textiles, rubber, tyres, colour masterbatch, cosmetics and paint. That wider industrial portfolio gives this spotlight its context: Lawer is a process-equipment manufacturer whose food systems address recurring weighing tasks, rather than a supplier of finished gelato or pastry ingredients.

Our shortlist concentrates on three bucket-based powder systems. UNICA establishes the basic automated recipe path; UNICA TWIN introduces larger ingredient storage and a choice of weighing arrangements; SUPERUNICA extends the workflow into automatic bucket handling and an enclosure. For central kitchens, growing laboratories and food factories visiting SIGEP, these are distinct starting points for discussing a production layout.

Who should put Lawer on the shortlist

Start with the recipe preparation workload, then match storage, handling and records to the people who will operate the system.

The most useful project team combines production, quality, engineering and the person responsible for cleaning and refilling.

Three ways to organise powder recipes

These are portfolio selections for SIGEP’s food production audience. Start with the handling workflow that suits your operation, then establish the configuration around your ingredients.

UNICA

UNICA automates the collection of powder ingredients into a recipe bucket. Ingredients sit in stainless steel silos and are dispensed by screws; an electronically weighed trolley positions the bucket under the required silo and carries it to the collection point. The operator receives the weighed recipe and an identification label. Management software provides operational reports and statistics, with data export through an interface to external systems. Manual or automatic bucket loading and unloading are available within the range. For a gelato laboratory preparing recurring dry mixes, a useful evaluation would follow a complete recipe from selection through dispensing to labelled collection, including the operator’s refill and handling tasks. The result should be a clear map of which preparation steps the proposed UNICA configuration takes over.

UNICA TWIN

UNICA TWIN is the option to examine when ingredient storage and weighing organisation need more scope. Independent stainless steel silos feed screw dosing devices, while one or two automatic weighing trolleys position buckets beneath the ingredients. A touchscreen computer manages the system, and suction and filtration form part of the working arrangement. Integration with external software is possible. For a bakery supplying several shops, the relevant scenario is a sequence of different dry recipes rather than one isolated batch. An evaluation should compare the proposed trolley arrangement against that sequence and include refills, bucket movement and recipe changeovers. This makes the choice of weighing arrangement a practical capacity decision instead of an assumption that a second trolley will resolve every production bottleneck.

SUPERUNICA

SUPERUNICA combines modular ingredient silos, a travelling electronic weighing trolley and automatic bucket loading and unloading inside a full enclosure. Its dosing device combines screw and vibration, and each bucket is identified by ID-TAG; recipe data are printed on a label at the end of the weighing cycle. Silos can be supplied by gravity or vacuum loading. The enclosure is designed for connection to external conditioning, and the system uses dedicated Lawer software with possible external software integration. For a central pastry or dessert production site, trace a bucket from entry through the complete recipe to labelled discharge, then review how the record follows the batch downstream. The useful outcome is an agreed material and information flow, including the responsibilities for conditioning, refill equipment and integration.

What changes the choice

The strongest comparison connects each machine’s architecture to a real production constraint.

• Powder recipes
• Bucket handling
• Recipe identification
• Software integration

Use the same ingredient list and production sequence for every proposal. That gives storage capacity, handling effort and integration scope a common basis for comparison.

From textile machinery to wider process automation

Lawer S.p.A. has its registered office in Cossato, Biella, Italy. Its history begins in 1970 with Lanaro Walter’s textile machinery business; the company later expanded into powder and liquid dosing and into other industrial sectors. Design and production are concentrated at its Italian plant, with commercial and assistance units in China, Turkey and the United States. The wider portfolio includes liquid dispensing, laboratory dosing and compound preparation systems alongside the food powder range. Equipment selection, installation, commissioning and after-sales assistance are part of its service offering.

Use the five-day show to sharpen the brief

SIGEP World’s published exhibition hours are 10:00–18:00 daily, 23–27 January 2027. The sequence below is TSI’s suggested planning approach; arrange any Lawer discussion directly in advance.

Five questions that advance the decision

Bring actual recipes and a production sequence so the discussion can produce a configuration and a trial plan.

1. For the proposed UNICA model, how will our smallest powder addition be dosed and checked?

   A trial with your own recipe establishes whether the configuration suits the required ingredient quantities; scale display resolution alone does not settle that decision.

2. On UNICA TWIN, what changes in our recipe sequence with one weighing trolley versus two?

   The answer should connect the extra equipment to actual bucket movement and competing recipe demands, so you can judge the configuration.

3. For SUPERUNICA, what conditioning and extraction connections must our site provide?

   The enclosure is designed to connect to external conditioning. A utility schedule defines installation scope and the division of responsibility.

4. On the selected system, how are silos, screws and buckets accessed and cleaned between our allergen recipes?

   Cleaning access and the proposed changeover procedure determine whether the installation fits your own segregation and production plan.

5. Which recipe identifiers and batch records can the proposed Lawer software exchange with our production system?

   A sample export or interface specification establishes how a weighed bucket will remain identifiable after it leaves the machine.

Plan your SIGEP World visit

Send a brief that can become a proposal

Contact Lawer at sales@lawer.com or +39 015 9899511. Include your application, ingredient list, minimum and maximum additions, daily recipe sequence and a floor plan. Add cleaning requirements and the name of your production software. Request a recommended configuration, installation scope and a practical ingredient evaluation plan.

Questions before the next conversation