Bühler: ChocoX ushers in a new era of moulding
Bühler’s new ChocoX (Choco Cross) moulding line intends to combine flexibility and agility in production and hygienic design, resulting in significantly lower operational costs. Its completely modular design shall allow for unlimited crossovers of the process line and quick adaptation to different products. Every function ...
Mettler-Toledo introduces new metal detection systems
Mettler-Toledo introduces its new GC Series conveyorized metal detection systems. This series enables the detection of metallic contaminants in packaged and unpackaged food and non-food products at critical control points (CCP) and shall score with flexibility, modularity and future security. The GC series systems can ...
Laetus: camera system enables versatile blister control
Sectors such as the pharmaceutical and food industries in particular rely on blisters for packaging their sensitive products. Whether medication or chocolate confectionery – intact packaging of high quality is one of the prerequisites for presenting a product successfully. With the camera system Polyphem wt, ...
Bi-Ber: camera-based empty mould check for any line
Berlin-based machine vision company Bi-Ber has installed about 100 optical empty mould check systems in confectionery factories throughout Europe. In addition to customer-specific designs, four standard systems for up to 1,050 mm wide moulds are now available. High-resolution GigE colour cameras detect any minimal product residues. ...
Analysis of cocoa and chocolate products in the running process
The production of chocolate from cocoa beans is a multi-stage process in which cocoa particles that are embedded in a cocoa butter matrix undergo several complex transformations. For this, the cocoa mass has to be ground, mixed and refined to avoid particle sizes over 30 µm. ...
