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A Post-War Innovation...

The international success of the Universal Dough Moulder, commercially launched in 1946, inspired Ayres Jones to invent and design a whole range of moulders, dough greasers, bread slicers and wrapping machines which were launched at the very first post-war International Bakery Exhibition at Olympia, London, in 1951.

By the early-mid 1950s the major baking groups were rapidly buying out all the smaller and medium sized bakeries and it was generally assumed that the demise of the small independent baker was inevitable.  Ayres had a different idea, however, and decided to concentrate his efforts on helping the small baker become more efficient and productive so that he could compete more favourably with the major players in the market.

This single-mindedness resulted in the 1958 launch of MONO Universal’s first Bread Plant, the Sleeping Baker, which completely automated the water dosing, dough mixing, intermediate proving and dough diving processes, meaning that the lack of skilled staff was no longer a barrier to producing quality bread at an affordable price.  Needless to say, the Sleeping Baker was a huge success!

Today MONO Equipment’s flagship bread plants, the Fusion range, are built on this proud heritage and incorporate a range of technological advancements to make them some of the most efficient, accurate and flexible bread plants on the market today.  Indeed, the Fusion bread plant has been embraced by some of the UK’s leading supermarket chains and independent bakers, and can also be found as far afield as Dubai, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia.

Mono's Fusion Pro Bread Plant