Ball former for bubble-gum and soft candy production
Achieve precise ball forming for bubble gum and soft candies with customizable cycles, ensuring high-quality production and efficiency while maximizing center-filling capabilities.
Forms and Cuts Center-Filled Confectionery Products
The CBF-8000 from Carugil is a high-speed continuous ball former designed to meet the demanding needs of confectionery manufacturers, food producers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. This machine excels in forming and cutting precise, hollow, solid, and center-filled confectionery products, including bubble-gum balls and chewy fruit candies.
The CBF-8000 operates with a sophisticated servo-driven mechanism, allowing for fully customizable forming cycles and quick changeovers in under 10 minutes. Its servo-driven rotary knife ensures a gentle, precise cut for center-filled ropes, minimizing leakage even with high filling percentages over 20%. The CBF-8000’s dual-stage forming system, featuring 1,000 mm long rollers, handles up to 6,500 pieces per minute, significantly boosting production capacity while maintaining excellent product quality.
Ideal for the confectionery and pharmaceutical industries, the CBF-8000 integrates seamlessly into existing production lines, supported by an intuitive touch screen for easy parameter adjustments. It caters to processing both solid and liquid product types, enabling the manufacture of a variety of shapes as per production needs. The machine’s robust construction and modular engineering allow for further customization, with engineering support available for specific requirements.
Benefits
- Enhances production capacity with up to 6,500 pieces per minute, reducing operational bottlenecks.
- Minimizes material waste and leakage in high center-filled candies with precise servo-driven cutting.
- Speeds up product changeovers under 10 minutes, improving line flexibility and productivity.
- Customizable forming processes ensure optimal product consistency and quality for various shapes and fillings.
- Integrates seamlessly with existing lines, streamlining operations across confectionery and pharmaceutical applications.
- Applications
- Food,Bubble-gum,Fruit pastes,Confectionery,Toffees,Sweets,Soft candies,Pharmaceutical
- End products
- Bubble-gum balls,Chewing gum with liquid centers,Herbal lozenges,Center-filled soft candies,Caramel toffees,Fruit-flavored pastes,Chewy fruit candies
- Steps before
- Mixing,Extruding,Preforming
- Steps after
- Cooling,Sugar Sanding,Wrapping,Labeling,Coating
- Input ingredients
- bubble gum base,soft candy base,toffee base,fruit paste,center-filled rope,semi-liquid center-filling
- Output ingredients
- hollow ball products,solid ball products,center-filled ball products,cylindrical products,high center-filling content pieces
- Market info
- Carugil is known for its expertise in designing and manufacturing industrial engineered-to-order equipment, particularly for the confectionery and food packaging industries, providing customized solutions that meet specific client needs with high-quality standards and innovative technology.
- Production Speed
- Up to 6,500 pieces/minute for CBF-8000
- Forming Rollers Length
- 1,000 mm
- Rope Speed
- 80 meters/minute
- Automation
- Servo-driven,independent servo-motors
- Changeover Time
- Less than 10 minutes
- Filling Percentage
- Up to 20% filling content
- Cutting System
- Rotary servo-driven knife
- Working mechanism
- Servo-driven movements
- Automation level
- Servo-motor controlled
- Changeover time
- Less than 10 minutes
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Customization capability
- Fully customizable forming cycle
- Center-filling capability
- Up to 20% filling
- Forming cycle configurability
- Independent parameters through touch screen
- Cutting precision
- Servo-driven rotary knife
- Cleanability
- Yes
- Abrasion resistance
- High
- Biological compatibility
- Food-safe
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Product shapes
- Hollow,solid,center-filled
- Product types
- Bubble-gum,soft candy,toffees,fruit pastes
- Footprint
- Compact for space-saving
- Forming Rollers Length
- 1,000 mm per set
- Number of Forming Stages
- Up to 2 stages (double-sided model)
- Machine Type
- Continuous Ball Former
- Control Panel Type
- Touch screen interface
- Discharge Method
- Rotary servo-driven knife
- Control panel type
- Touch screen
- Forming cycle customization
- Completely customizable
- Recipe storage
- Memory for recipes