With over 50 years experience in the baking and confectionary industries, Perrett and Kane Machine Services (Backwell, Bristol) has supplied the majority of celebration cake manufactures with it’s machinery designs, including sheeters, horizontal cutters and shape stamping machines.

The latest machine to join it’s range is the P&K 2D Shape Stamping, which has taken five years to develop and can produce a line of two-dimensional shapes in icing, pastry or marzipan every three seconds.

Shape boards can be changed in minutes by an operator and are a fraction of the cost of conventional rotary machine change parts, claims the company.

The 2D shape boards utilise a number of technologies in their design and are durable in every day bakery use, adds the firm. All of the detail in the customer’s original creation can be reproduced in finished moulds.