Bread Pan Recoating Program
AST runs a rolling recoating program for multi-strap bread pan sets for Goodman Fielder — one of Australia's largest bread producers. Sets are stripped, blasted and recoated in a food-grade PFA system, batch by batch.
Recoating is how production bakeries optimise the life cycle of their bakeware. Pan sets are capital equipment — and instead of spending capital on new tooling, recoating extends the life of the sets you already own, multiple times over, for a fraction of the cost. Each recoat takes the pan back to a freshly prepared substrate and applies a full new coating system — the same system, the same process and the same QA as a new coat. What makes a bakery program work is the scheduling around it: enough tooling in service to keep baking while the rest is processed. For more on service life and the recoat decision, see how long Teflon coating lasts.
Recoat the tooling without stopping the line
Bread pan sets are expensive, custom-tooled assets that work hard. Release performance falls away gradually as the coating wears, and when it does the bakery sees sticking, product damage and more line stoppages. Replacing pan sets is the capital-expenditure answer — recoating extends the life of tooling the bakery already owns, for a fraction of that cost. The question for this producer was never whether to recoat — it was how to recoat without taking a production line out of service, because the pans have to keep baking while their replacements are away being processed.
- Custom-tooled multi-strap bread pan sets
- Release performance degrades with bake cycles
- Replacement is the expensive alternative
- Production lines cannot stop for the recoat
A rolling program, batched by pan-set group
AST runs this as a rolling program rather than one large job. Pan sets are grouped and processed in batches so the bakery always keeps enough sets in service while a batch is with us. Each batch is inspected on receipt, stripped of its existing coating by thermal burn-off, silica bead blasted back to a clean substrate and the correct anchor profile, then recoated with a food-grade PFA system and cured. Turnaround is 7–10 working days per batch.
- Batched by pan-set group so lines keep running
- Inspection and condition assessment on receipt
- Thermal burn-off strip, silica bead blast
- 7–10 working days per batch
Food-grade PFA recoat
A food-grade PFA system — the higher-build member of the Chemours Teflon family — specified for release performance and durability through repeated bake cycles. AST PTFE/PFA bakeware coatings deliver 3,500 to 6,000 bake cycles between recoats, depending on the coating system selected, the bake duty and how the pans are handled in service.
- Chemours food-grade PFA topcoat system
- 3,500–6,000 bake cycles per recoat
- Same coating system and QA as a new coat
- Materials Certificate of Conformance available
A standing cycle instead of a replacement bill
Recoated sets go back on the line with as-new release performance, and the program has continued as a rolling cycle — batches rotate through, the bakery keeps its tooling, and recoating costs a fraction of new pan production. Every batch is covered by AST's lifetime workmanship warranty.
- As-new release performance on return
- Ongoing rolling recoat cycle
- Recoat costs a fraction of replacement
- Lifetime workmanship warranty
AST coats and recoats bakeware for bakeries and bakeware OEMs across Australia and New Zealand. Service life depends on operating conditions — AST does not warrant a specific cycle count, but the published 3,500–6,000 bake cycle range reflects real-world performance on commercial bakery lines.
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Bakeware due for a recoat?
Talk to AST about your pan sets, bake duty and line schedule. Our team can structure a batched recoat program and prepare a technical quotation.