Product Lines
Sollich North America offers an extensive range of product lines to best service the industries covered. These industries include: chocolate, confectionery, gum, snack, bakery, pharmaceutical and pet food. The equipment loosely falls into six different categories:
- Enrobing, Tempering and Cooling of chocolate and similar fat and sugar based products; these are supplied by Sollich and to a lesser extent by their sister company Chocotech.
- Automatic Panning equipment is supplied by Dumoulin and covers all aspects of confectionery panning such as chocolate, hard sugar and sugar-free, soft panning for jelly beans as well pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical and seed coating.
- Chocolate Moulding equipment is supplied by Knobel with industrial scale equipment, Knobel with smaller specialized equipment often used by artisans, Chocotech with their innovative mouldless Frozenshell® line. Sugar and other non-chocolate moulding is covered by Sollich’s Candymaster® and Shellmaster®.
- Candy Kitchens manufactured by Chocotech are used for the preparation, cooking, aeration, beating of sugar and sugar-free candy masses. Chocotech also supply equipment for cooling and forming candies.
- Forming Systems for all kind of bars, clusters and pralines are supplied by Sollich KG including slab forming, double piston and wire cut extrusion and rotary moulding. Chocotech offer a range of forming equipment for croquant, chocolate lentils centers and vermicelli.
- Refining & Processing for cocoa, nuts, chocolate and compound is supplied by Lehmann. Their turnkey lines from bean to finished chocolate include cocoa bean feeding and cleaning, continuous roasting, sterilizing, winnowing, alkalizing, disk mills, ball mills or roll refiners along with all necessary ancillary