The company presented new solutions for processing and packaging chocolate and confectionery at the trade fair. The technology enables manufacturers to respond to market trends and changing consumer habits. Two key innovations maximise flexibility in the packaging of complex, ‘creative’ chocolate products.

The fully electronic HTB wrapping machine sets market standards with its speed of up to 250 products per minute and its exceptional packaging quality. Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate has now made the system even more efficient and flexible. The HTB has been equipped with several important new functions, so that it can now use pre-cut paper as an alternative to pre-cut cardboard for the outer packaging, for example. In addition, chocolate bars with protruding ingredients such as whole hazelnuts can now also be processed efficiently.

H-SM is a new wrapping machine from Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate that has been specially developed for the packaging of hollow chocolate products, which are particularly popular at Christmas or Easter. A special feature is the introduction of a servo motor system that controls a thread applicator in hybrid mode: This allows manufacturers to transform any wrapped product into a great decoration that can be easily hung on the Christmas tree or Easter branches. With a speed of 140 pieces per minute, the H-SM combines high performance with aesthetics and creativity to produce unique products.

Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate S.p.A. is a business unit of the SACMI Group founded in 2018 and headquartered in Imola, northern Italy.

Under the Carle & Montanari (chocolate production) and OPM (packaging) brands, Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate is the only company in the world to offer machines and complete lines for the entire process, from cocoa paste to final packaging.The range includes machines for mixing, refining, conching, tempering, moulding, wrapping, and packaging all types of chocolate based products. The portfolio also includes flow-wrapping machines, flow-packaging and solutions for secondary packaging. Today, Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate has a plant for Carle & Montanari moulding machines in Milan, a factory for primary and secondary lines in Alba and a production facility for all types of wrapping machines near Bologna.