1. Baking Oven
You need to go for the industrial baking oven if you can afford it. That is what professional baker who makes bread in commercial quantity use. It cost much but worth the price and will make your work lot more easier.
2. Flour Mixer
Mixer is the device that mix the flour and other ingredient into pastry ready for baking. There are local mixers and there are standard electronic mixers. Go for the one that is suitable according to the standard of bakery you are setting up.
3. Slicing Machine
This is important if you intend going into slicing your bread. Sliced bread is the most popular and most respected in Nigerian market. Therefore, slicing machine is compulsory if you are baking in Nigeria or any other country like that.
4. Baking Pans
Some heavy ovens do come with baking pans but that may not be suitable to the size you want to make. You need to buy or design baking pans according to your specification, I mean specification according to what is obtainable in the market.
5. Bread Wrapper Supply
You need a well branded bread wrapper in constant supply. Make arrangement for this in advance before production commences.
6. KVA Generator
Youd always need a standby generator, very big one for that matter. Your production is sensitive and you cant afford to joke with it.
7. Supply Truck
Then a supply truck to help in your marketing. There is no way you will be able to market effectively if you dont have at least one supply vehicle.
Getting NAFDAC Approval For Your Bread Bakery Business
It is very sad that no bread currently produced in Nigeria that passes international health standard according to experts report. Everything shouldnt be money first; do the right thing and then money will come and even surpasses your expectation. Why give your fellow citizens poison in the quest to make fast money?
There is the challenge of unhealthy and unethical competitors whose warfare is price reduction. These bakers substitute ingredients like sugar (which is the most expensive ingredient) with saccharine because it is far cheaper to do so, without considering the health hazards of saccharine.
Since the consumer cannot differentiate between a sugar sweetened bread from saccharine sweetened bread, such Shylock bakers take the advantage, because they know that most consumers will go for a low-cost bread first.
By all means, try and meet the international standard in your bakery business. I can assure you that if you do everything right, no matter how much money it take you, you are going to make plenty of profit in return and your business will enjoy good will from man and God.
Before you produce anything, you must obtain NAFDAC approval first if you are in Nigeria. If you are in other country, seek for the appropriate authority to get your approval. When all things is put in place, you will be good to go!