How chocolate machinery applied in chocolate industry?

Chocolate machinery plays a vital role in the chocolate industry, enabling efficient and large-scale production of chocolate products. The process involves several stages, each with specialized equipment designed to handle specific tasks in the chocolate-making process.

How chocolate machinery is applied in the industry

1. Cocoa Bean Processing:

Cleaning and Sorting: Machinery such as destoners and sorting conveyors remove impurities like stones, metal, and broken beans from raw cocoa beans.

Roasting: Cocoa beans are roasted in large rotating drums or fluid bed roasters to develop flavor and aroma. The temperature and duration are carefully controlled.

2. Winnowing and Grinding:

Winnowing: After roasting, the beans are cooled and the shells are removed through winnowing machines, leaving behind cocoa nibs.

Grinding: The nibs are then ground into a thick liquid called cocoa liquor (or cocoa mass) using chocolate ball mill.

3. Conching and Refining:

Conching: This step further refines the chocolate by continuously mixing and aerating the chocolate liquor with sugar, milk powder (for milk chocolate), and other ingredients in a chocolate refiner conche. This can take several hours to days, improving texture and flavor.

Refining: Additional chocolate conche may be used to reduce particle size for a smoother texture.

4. Tempering:

Chocolate Tempering Machine precisely control the heating and cooling of chocolate to form stable crystals, ensuring a shiny finish and snap when broken. This is crucial for the final product's appearance and texture.

5. Molding and Packaging:

Chocolate moulding machine: Liquid chocolate is deposited into molds of various shapes and sizes, then cooled to solidify. Vibrating tables help settle the chocolate and remove air bubbles.

Wrapping and Packaging: Automated packaging lines wrap individual pieces and pack them into boxes or bags, often with sealing and labeling machines completing the process.

6. Quality Control and Testing Equipment:

Throughout the process, various testing equipment is used to ensure quality, including moisture meters, viscosity testers, and flavor analyzers.

These machines work together in a highly automated and synchronized manner, allowing for consistent quality and high output volumes in the chocolate industry. Advancements in technology have led to more efficient energy use, greater precision in ingredient measurement, and enhanced hygiene standards, all contributing to the global production and enjoyment of chocolate products.

Chocolate machinery supplied by Harmo

Harmo is a professional chocolate machinery&equipment supplier. Our products can be divided into three categories: chocolate mass making machine, chocolate moulding machine and chocolate cooling equipment. At the same time, according to customer needs, we can provide manual production lines, semi-automatic production lines and fully automatic production lines.

Chocolate mass making machine includes chocolate conche refiner, chocolate ball mill, chocolate tempering machine, chocolate storage tank, fat melting tank and sugar pulverizer. Fat melting tank and sugar pulverizer are used for pre-treatment of raw materials. Chocolate conche refiner and chocolate ball mill are used to grind liquid chocolate, including chocolate mass, chocolate spread and cocoa liquor. We can provide different production solutions according to the production demands of customers. For example, for small and medium-sized chocolate mass production, we have chocolate conche refiners for customers to choose. The output range of our chocolate conche refiner is 20L-3000L/batch. For large-scale chocolate mass production, we have continuous ball mill solutions with a production range of 500kg/h-1500kg/h.

Chocolate forming machine includes chocolate depositing machines, chocolate coating machines, chocolate vermicelli, chocolate panning machines, etc. According to the customer's products, we can use just single machinery, or integrate multiple equipment together, so that 3-4 different products can be produced on one production line. For example, the equipment for producing chocolate chips can produce chunks, vermcielli, etc. To achieve the production of multiple products in a limited space, bring more benefits to customers, and bring more choices to end consumers. For customers who want to make chocolate, we only need to know the type of chocolate they want to make and the output requirements so as to provide a suitable solution. At same time, if the customer can provide us with pictures of the chocolate to be made for reference, it will be more helpful for us to provide a customized solution.

Chocolate cooling equipment mainly consists of cooling tunnels and cooling box. They must ensure that the product maintains good shape and quality before entering the packaging machine. A good  cooling tunnel can control the moisture on the surface of the product and keep the product in perfect shape, so the cooling tunnel is also crucial to the final product.

Whether customers want to make chocolate blocks, filled chocolates, chocolate with fillings and crusheded nuts, or chocolate chunks and chocolate spreads for industrial use, we have the best production solutions. We have 30 years of experience in the chocolate equipment industry, so we always understand our customers' needs and concerns. At the same time, we have customers in more than 100 countries and regions around the world, and our quality and service have been recognized and praised by the market.

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