Recipes for success

Directly expanded ready-to-eat cereals are airy products with crispy or crunchy textures. Clextral twin-screw extrusion lines are designed to customer specifications with built-in flexibility so that they can produce an infinite variety of directly expanded cereals. This allows food manufacturers to respond, adapt and even anticipate on consumers’ demands for ever-increasing variations in taste, shapes and flavors.

A wide choice of raw materials

Clextral expanded cereal production systems enable food producers to use an almost unlimited choice of raw materials: corn, wheat, oats, barley, rice, rye, quinoa, amaranth, German wheat, buckwheat… These cereals can be whole-grain and enriched in fibers, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to create wholesome and healthy foods.

An unlimited range of shapes, flavors and textures

Countless shapes : rings, balls, stars, petals, animals, alphabets…
Specific coatings : glazed and frosty coatings, sugar syrup, honey, chocolate, various flavors,…
Multiple colors
Various aromas : fruits, vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate, malt syrup, caramel…
Integration of numerous ingredients : complex and simple sugars, powdered milk, honey, cocoa, aromas, salt…
Visible inclusions : rice crisps, petals, oat and wheat flakes, dehydrated fruit or vegetable particles…
Transformation into cereal bars : puffed rice, wheat balls and other cereals