About Us – Bakery Ovens

Founded in 1949 by Joseph M. Day P.E., the roots of the company are in the baking industry. He gained extensive background in the baking industry through education at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago (forerunner of AIB) and as a project engineer with Baker Perkins (Saginaw, Michigan) and chief engineer with AMF, Oven Division (New Haven, Connecticut).

As with most entrepreneurs, this knowledge and experience formed the basis of the company. From this foundation Banner-Day grew as a specialist in automatic gas and oil combustion and control systems, focused primarily in bakery applications. In the late 1970s, development work was started on the application of solid-state ignition/flame rectification modules on direct-fired gas ovens. This work resulted in what is known today as "direct spark ignition" or DSI systems. DSI systems are the center of today's fully automated oven control systems. Additional design highlights include patents for an oven electrical "Power Interruption Protection" (PIP^®) gas train system and a "rectification ignitor" for ribbon burners, which vastly improves the reliability of these DSI systems.

The Banner-Day team is focused on customer needs, continually doing research and development work to improve the safety, automation and flexibility of high-production bakery ovens, enhance product quality and reduce gas and electric utility costs.

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