A food and beverage manufacturer with global operations tasked Rospen to provide three continuous inclusion feed systems to deliver +/-1% feed rate accuracy with the flexibility to handle any combination of 14 difficult-to-handle confectionery ingredients and to be delivered in six packing formats. To add to the complexity of the project, equipment locations were split across two floors in an older and constrained part of the factory.
To meet the manufacturer’s high quality specification of <2% damage by weight per ingredient (including smashed, crushed, broken by the plant), we successfully handled 14 separate ingredients with care, including: Whole Hazelnuts, Whole Almonds, Raisins, Cinder Toffee, Jellies, Candy Coated Chocolate Shells, Popping Candy, Praline, Cookies, Cola Cubes, Pretzels, Fudge Pieces, Malt Balls, Caramel Cubes, which were mixed in with chocolate.
Ingredient packaging varied with FIBC’s (800 kg), RIBC’s (800kg), Dollies (80kg), Octobins (300kg), Boxes (20 & 12.5kg), Cartons (<5kg). As a requirement, we loaded all packaging into the Rospen system. Our scope of work featured a Turnkey Delivery of a World Class Ingredient Handling system, including:
Our solution entailed installation of interchangeable FIBC / RIBC unloading stations, a sack tip hopper with a dual octobin / dollie tipper to enable unloading of any packing format, and a combination of screw and belt feeders working on a loss-in-weight principle to provide accurate dosing and gentle handling of ingredients. Hygienic, quick strip design belt conveyors transfer ingredients to the hot water jacketed enrobing screw, where ingredients combine with the molten chocolate prior to final delivery to the bar forming machine.
Both floors were fitted with environmental control systems to provide optimum manufacturing conditions for the variety of materials handled.
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