Chocolate or jelly – with and without filling! With just one versatile WDS plant, you'll cover the entire product spectrum of a wide variety of confectionery products!
The flexible plant concept of ConfecVARIO ensures an extremely flexible and efficient production of your confectionery products. The modular design allows a variety of different plant layouts, each of which can be optimally adapted to the production conditions. To ensure that plant sections are used in the best possible way, the overall speed of the plant is not determined by the slowest process, but is flexibly adapted to the various sections.
The availability of the plant is particularly high, as maintenance, repairs and cleaning can be carried out during ongoing production. Individual sections of the plant continue production without interruption during this time.
Chocolate
The innovative machine concept of ConfecVARIO makes it possible to produce a wide variety of chocolate articles. Produce filled or solid chocolates with and without additives on the chainless plant. The highly flexible production line enables precision depositing, EasyClean designs and absolute flexibility.
Gum & Jelly
With ConfecVARIO, you can produce a wide variety of gum and jelly products. Produce hygienically in polycarbonate moulds, dose with the highest possible depositing accuracy, and shape the products in a gentle and organised manner.
sweetOTC
Succeed in the market for dietary supplements and over-the-counter medicines with trendy, tasty and active effective OTC confectionery.
ConfecVARIO is a plant for the production of OTC confectionery, taking into account all relevant hygienic aspects. It can also be customised specifically to meet your requirements.
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Highlights
- Wide variety of chocolate and/or jelly products
- Flexible plant layouts thanks to modular design
- Maintenance and cleaning during operation
- Innovative transport system takes over additional functions such as lifting, vibration or ribbon depositing movements
- Chainless mould conveyor for maximum hygiene and cycle independence
- VarioCABINET: Individual shelves in the cooling cabinet that can be removed without tools
- Optimum accessibility
- Unrestricted process observation
- Very short changeover times
Multifunctional.
Variable dwell times for cooling, warming, holding and buffering of products.
Highlights
Set-up:
- The moulds are loaded and unloaded from a rotating rack system by gantry kinematics
- Chainless design
Process:
- Freely selectable dwell times
- Optimised airflow thanks to modern airflow simulation
- Constant, reproducible cooling results on all levels
Cleaning:
- Easy accessibility to all areas of the VarioCABINET
- Shelves can be removed from the VarioCABINET without tools
Mould carrier with integrated lift & vibration function
High-precision depositing with simplified lifting of the mould. Immediate vibration, e.g. directly after depositing.
Highlights
- VarioVIBRATION:
- Horizontal, vertical and combined vibration during and immediately after the depositing process
- Noiseless vibration without insulation cladding
- VarioLIFT: The mould, as the lightest element, is moved under the depositor section.
- VarioDEPOSIT:
- Multiple depositing in rows with lifting function
- Exact positioning of each mould carrier below the rigid depositor head, e.g. for ribbon deposit
Chainless mould conveyor
U.S. Pat. 12,059,009
VarioTRACK transports individual moulds on a mould carrier. The switch technology enables independent transport of the moulds to different sections of the plant, various speeds and flexible mould grouping and separation. This means that the number of moulds for one plant can be significantly reduced.
Highlights
- Chainless transport: precise movement of individual moulds
- Flexible speeds: No delay due to rigid chain segments
- Innovative, new plant layouts: Switch systems and individual mould conveyors make previously impossible, efficient plant layouts a reality
LISTENING
UNDERSTANDING
COMMON PATH
Listening to You!
Listening, understanding and finding the best paths – that's our strength!
Starting with your product idea, we develop the suitable plant concept for a ConfecVARIO in close cooperation with you. In the process, we address your individual needs and adapt the plant together with you.
Diverse product options. Implementing new ideas easily
A wide range of chocolate and jelly products with just one plant type.
Highlights
- Produce different chocolate & jelly products in parallel or alternately
- Chainless version for fast cleaning between product types
- Short changeover times by bypassing plant parts not used
Different speeds
during ongoing production
The slowest process does not affect the overall plant speed.
Highlights
- Different speed ranges for optimum processing of part functions
- Conveyor can be switched over from intermittent to continuous within millimetres
- Short set-up and cleaning times
- Increased plant output by having processes run in parallel
Modularity. Flexibility. Diversity.
Completely new plant layouts and flexibility in the diversity of process steps and their arrangement.
Highlights
- New plant layouts thanks to track switch system as well as 90° and 180° curves
- Modular extendibility for the fast, later addition of process steps such as chocolate shell edge formation
- Lift/lower function and mould vibration can be switched on by software anywhere in the plant
Variable output quantities.
Tailored individually
Flexible production processes for medium to high capacities possible on the same plant.
Highlights
- Different mould circuits can be combined flexibly
- Plant parts only required for one special product are run through, which saves on cleaning
- Specific adaptation of the number of moulds to a product since free sections are travelled over more quickly
Diverse plant layouts
Compared to chain-driven plants, ConfecVARIO makes it possible to have a variety of plant layouts and is extremely space-saving at the same time. The innovative transport system can take over additional functions, such as ribbon depositing movements, lifting functions or vertical and horizontal vibration movements. Processes can be performed completely asynchronously: The transport of the mould carriers is no longer dependent on a workstation.