Five-roll refiner for chocolate production
Achieve precise particle size control and energy efficiency in your chocolate refining process with a system designed for seamless integration, recipe flexibility, and high-speed automated operations.

Refines and Adjusts Particle Size for Chocolate Products
The Finer S Five-Roll Refiner from Bühler Group is designed to tackle the complexities of chocolate production by ensuring precise particle size adjustments, resulting in high-quality, smooth, and flavorful chocolate products. This equipment is renowned for its energy-efficient drive system, which can cut energy consumption by up to 15%, enhancing sustainability in your processing lines. Utilizing a robust five-roll design, it is capable of processing a diverse array of chocolate masses, making it ideal for producing products like dark chocolate bars, creamy fillings, and coatings. With a capacity to streamline operation through its automation features and recipe storage capability, the Finer S integrates seamlessly into continuous and high-speed production environments. Additionally, the hygienic stainless steel construction facilitates easy cleaning and maintenance, while its PLC interfaces support advanced automation and remote monitoring, ensuring minimal downtime. Customization options are available to tailor the refiner to specific process requirements, supported by Bühler’s extensive engineering expertise.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with precise and consistent particle sizing.
- Lowers operational costs by reducing energy consumption up to 15%.
- Decreases cleaning time with easy-to-maintain hygienic stainless steel design.
- Improves production flexibility with automated recipe switching.
- Minimizes downtime through advanced monitoring and automation features.
- Applications
- Spreads,Compounds,Coatings,Filling creams,Chocolate
- End products
- Peanut butter spread,Yogurt-flavored coating,Cocoa compound coating,Milk chocolate truffles,Caramel filling cream,Dark chocolate bars,Chocolate coating for ice cream,Almond filling paste,White chocolate chips,Hazelnut chocolate spread
- Steps before
- Melting,Mixing,Emulsification,Pre-grinding
- Steps after
- Cooling,Tempering,Packing,Conching
- Input ingredients
- chocolate masses,compounds,filling creams,coatings,spreads
- Output ingredients
- smooth chocolate,flavorful chocolate,refined compounds,finished creams,coatings,spreads
- Market info
- Buhler is renowned for manufacturing advanced process solutions for food, feed, and advanced materials. They are highly regarded for their innovation in milling technology and equipment quality.
- Energy Consumption Reduction
- Up to 15%
- Productivity Improvement
- Up to 10%
- Hygienic Design Material
- Stainless Steel
- Particle Size Control
- Automatic Fineness Adjustment
- Monitoring Range
- 30 cm
- Roller Count
- Five
- Automation Integration
- ProfiNet,ABEthernet,WLAN
- Recipe Storage
- Unlimited
- Automation level
- ProfiNet / ABEthernet / WLAN Compatible
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Cleaning method
- Easy Clean / Hygienic Design
- Energy efficiency
- Up to 15% reduction in energy consumption
- Changeover time
- Quick batch changeover
- Automatic particle size control
- Vario drive V system
- High availability
- Built-in dry run camera system
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Recipe storage
- Unlimited recipe recall
- Control panel type
- ProfiNet,ABEthernet,WLAN
- Integration possibilities
- Smart Factory systems
- Recipe storage options
- Unlimited individual recipes
- Automation control interfaces
- Smart mobile devices