What Machines Are Used To Make Chocolate?

Many people love the happiness that chocolate brings to them, and more chocolate factories are always looking for suitable chocolate equipment. What is the machinery required for a chocolate factory?

First, let's get a general idea of the chocolate-making process in the factory.

Sugar grinding → fat melting → feeding→ refining&conching → storage → tempering→ Depositing → vibration → cooling hardening → demoulding → packaging

In the above process, there are mainly 7 chocolate machines required by the chocolate factory.

1. Sugar Grinding Machine

Many kinds of chocolate are made of granulated sugar, with general content of about 50%. By grinding granulated sugar into powder, the product structure will become delicate and smooth, at the same time, it also affects the taste and sweetness of chocolate to a certain extent.

2. Fat Melting Tank

Cocoa liquor, cocoa butter and cocoa butter substitutes are solid at room temperature. Before feeding, they need to be melted then they can be mixed for refining.

 The sugar grinder and melting tank belong to the pretreatment of raw materials before mixing.

3. Chocolate Conching Refining Machine

In chocolate production, ingredient refining is the basic production link. Fine grinding makes all kinds of materials mix evenly and reduces the fineness of materials. The average fineness can reach 20um, which makes the taste delicate and lubricated. The conching time is generally 16-22 hours.

4. Chocolate Storage Tank

It is mainly used for heat preservation storage of chocolate slurry after fine grinding to meet the technological requirements of chocolate production and to meet the needs of continuous production.

5. Chocolate Tempering Machine

You use the tempering machine at a defined temperature value to initiate the heating process of the chocolate syrup.

The tempering machine allows you to achieve appropriate chocolate crystallization with the desired consistency through the heating and cooling process.

6. Chocolate Moulding Machine

A moulding machine is a semi-automatic or automatic equipment that produces various chocolates. The processing includes mould drying, depositing, vibration, cooling and demoulding. By adding accessories like caramel depositor, crushed nuts feeder and biscuits feeder, etc, it can produce chocolate with center filling, chocolate with inclusions, etc.

Besides moulding machine, we have chocolate enrobing machines, chocolate drop lines and chocolate vermicelli lines, etc. They are widely used in the bakery industry and confectionery industry.

7. Chocolate Packaging Machine

Choose the appropriate chocolate packaging machine according to the requirements. After that, the finished chocolate products can enter the market from the factory.

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