Sollich Bar Making

With the Conbar® range, SOLLICH offers complete systems for the continuous manufacture of bars and other confectionery. SOLLICH Conbar® lines have become the global market leaders in modern bar manufacturing for:

• Confectionery or candy bars with single or multiple layers
• Cereal bars
• Nutrition bars with multiple layers
• Fruit based bars and strips
• Nut brittle bars and croquant

A complete slab can be formed and the slit and guillotined or with the use of a “forming comb” ropes can be extruded.

The Sollformat® SPF-DPF is SOLLICH’s high-performance extruder for rope forming using fatty as well as sugar masses.

Cutting Systems

Slitters are used to cut slabs for bars. Versions include units with fixed knives for high fat content products and large circular knives with variable speed, specially designed for bars made from sugar or cereal masses.

Spreaders are used to spread sticky products or to prepare products prior to the chocolate enrobing process.

Guillotine cutters Type SGU a guillotine with overhead mechanical drive for ease of maintenance cleaning.

High-performance guillotine Type SGH the fastest guillotine cutter in the SOLLICH range, capable of up to 800 cuts per minute, specially designed for items over 4 mm long.

High-performance guillotine Type SGS, servo-driven cutting knife and reciprocating knives. Output of up to 160 cuts per minute with reciprocating knives.

Ultrasonic cutting systems for products that are difficult to cut using mechanical knives, e.g. small cakes with fillings. All new guillotines can now be upgraded to Ultrasonic.

Sollformat® KPS is a double piston extruder of the latest design suitable for all sugar, fat and fruit based materials which can be formed in plastic state to form confectionery and sweet center bars. It is available for following working widths: 400, 600, 800, 1000 und 1300 mm.

Sollformat® SFN for manufacturing shaped products (pralines, bars) for confectionery masses containing fat. Originally, forming machines of this kind were used only for pastry dough or marzipan.

The Sollformat® SFN represents a further development towards a universal forming system capable of processing a variety of different masses. It is important that the masses contain fat and have a granular or fibrous structure to aid the forming process.

Sollformat® SPF-DPF is a high-performance extruder for praline forming using fatty masses as well as sugar masses. It is also an ideal addition to a Conbar® line.

Other Sollich Forming Systems

• Cluster Former CF is a simple and efficient forming machine for products such as nut clusters that can be transferred easily via a continuously running cooling belt. It permits a wide range of product combinations using a minimal amount of chocolate.
• Sollcoform® is a new type of rotary moulding machine with positive demoulding. Mixtures of cereals, nuts, broken wafer or biscuit pieces, mixed with a fat or sugar binder, can be formed in small round pieces, ovals or square shapes. The same goes for traditional mixtures of fondant, marzipan or coconut paste.
• Sollcodrop® is the name for a rotary moulding system for all types of chocolate, fat, sugar or dough type materials in fluid state, producing precise shapes and accurate volumes. The moulded product is deposited onto endless plastic or steel belts. Working widths from 300 to 1300 mm are suitable from average to high outputs.
• Sollcofill® is the name of the comprehensive range of depositing machines for depositing fatty and sugar masses in or on bakery products, biscuits and wafer bases. This line also produces sandwich products for the bakery industry.
• Sollcotop® is a new method of chocolate enrobing for either half coated products or for strip coating. Manufactured in working widths from 400 to 1800 mm and for operating speeds up to 12 m/min.
• Chocolate Mesh or Rope Extrusion an innovative systems for chocolate mesh or rope extrusion on a continuous cooling conveyor.
• Forming and Cutting of Chocolate Products: production machines for thin blocks, chocolate flakes or chocolate bars and fingers.
• Chocolate drop depositor type KG/KGM for depositing on a product track or depositing drops on a cooling conveyor.

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Chocotech forming equipment includes the Croquant formers including the Sucroform® W sheeting and forming line.

Chocotech also produce the Chocoform® range of drops rollers for chocolate balls, eggs and lentils as well as vermicelli extrusion.