Advanced lollipop forming system
Craft diverse lollipop shapes with precision and efficiency, reducing downtime with rapid changeovers and integrated cleaning systems, making it perfect for boosting production capabilities and product variety in high-speed confectionery lines.
Forms and Shapes Diverse Lollipop Varieties
The GEA Aquarius FlexFormer is a versatile lollipop forming machine ideal for confectionery manufacturers seeking precision and efficiency in producing diverse lollipop styles. This equipment stands out for its capability to form and shape ball, 3D, and center-filled lollipops using a sugar rope detection system that ensures perfect formation with minimal waste. Applications include producing perfectly shaped ball lollipops and gourmet 3D designs, making it essential for food and confectionery industries.
The FlexFormer seamlessly integrates into your production line with its easy exchange format parts, allowing quick transitions between sizes and shapes, minimizing downtime to less than an hour. With automated high-speed operations, the machine supports continuous processing, supported by a PLC system that enhances operational control and integration. Maintenance is simplified by the Clean-In-Place (CIP) system, reducing cleaning time to approximately 20 minutes, ensuring hygiene and efficiency.
The robust construction includes an auto-lubrication system and machine damage protection package, ensuring reliability and less downtime. By preserving the integrity of lollipop designs, the FlexFormer guarantees high-quality output, ready for immediate cooling and wrapping in various styles. Overall, the GEA Aquarius FlexFormer offers confectionery producers an engineering solution that combines flexibility, precision, and efficiency, making it a key component in modern lollipop production.
Benefits
- Minimizes downtime with quick changeover between lollipop sizes and shapes.
- Enhances production efficiency through continuous, high-speed operation.
- Ensures hygienic production with a fast, effective Clean-In-Place system.
- Protects product quality with precise shaping and filling capabilities.
- Lowers maintenance needs with robust machine protection and auto-lubrication.
- Applications
- Sweets,Ball lollipops,Center-filled lollipops,3d lollipops
- End products
- Center-filled fruit-flavored lollipops,Perfectly shaped ball lollipops,Fancy shaped lollipops,Gourmet 3d lollipops
- Steps before
- Sugar rope preparation,Ingredient mixing
- Steps after
- Cooling (PopCooler B SC or HC),Lollipop wrapping
- Input ingredients
- sugar rope,center filling,stick
- Output ingredients
- ball lollipop,3D lollipop,fancy lollipop,center filled lollipop
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Changeover time
- Less than 1 hour
- CIP availability
- Optional
- Cleaning time
- 20-30 minutes
- Heating requirement
- 95°C
- Working mechanism
- Sugar rope detection
- Automation level
- PLC
- Changeover time
- < 1 hour
- CIP/SIP
- Optional CIP
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Footprint
- Compact
- Control panel type
- PLC with touch screen
- Machine housing
- Closed
- Shape formation
- Ball,Flat,3D lollipops
- Exchange set time
- Less than 1 hour
- Cleaning system
- CIP (Clean-In-Place)
- CIP Time
- Approximately 20 minutes
- Control panel type
- PLC and touch screen
- Integration possibilities
- Remote service (optional)
- Changeover time
- Less than 1 hour
- CIP (Clean-In-Place) unit availability
- Optional