Hard candy forming line for manufacturing
Experience seamless candy production with advanced forming technology, ensuring high dimensional accuracy and extended durability for all your confectionery creations.

Forms and Fills Candies with Precision
Hänsel Processing’s STRADA® Series is an innovative suite of candy forming and filling equipment that revolutionizes your confectionery production line. Specially engineered for food and candy manufacturing, these machines ensure seamless integration into continuous, high-speed operations. The STRADA® system excels in forming hard and soft candies, toffees, and chewy confections through precision processes, including rolling, sizing, and filling.
Ideal for creating a wide range of products such as butterscotch hard candy, fruit-filled chewy candies, and vitamin gummies, the STRADA® Series offers adjustable throughput capabilities tailored to your specific needs. For instance, the UP 2930 forming machine can achieve speeds of up to 200 rope meters per minute, allowing for efficient and flexible production scaling.
Integrated with PLC controls, these machines facilitate optimal automation, enabling precise adjustments to roller speed, temperature, and positioning of sizing components, minimizing waste and enhancing product consistency. The equipment is constructed from stainless steel, promoting hygiene and durability, while the design emphasizes ease of maintenance with accessible components and quick-change mechanisms.
Whether handling solid or liquid products, Hänsel Processing ensures compliance with industry standards and offers customizable features to meet unique production requirements, providing engineering support for tailored configurations.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with high-speed forming capabilities up to 200 meters/minute.
- Minimizes product waste through precise, automated sizing and filling processes.
- Simplifies maintenance and reduces downtime with easy access to components and quick-change mechanisms.
- Promotes hygiene and product safety with stainless steel construction and integrated CIP features.
- Offers versatile production capabilities for a wide range of confectionery products, from hard candies to nutraceutical gummies.
- Applications
- Jelly,Otc supplements,Nutraceuticals,Filled candies,Fondant,Toffees,Gums,Bars,Hard candy,Torrone,Chewy candies,Fruit gummies,Soft candies
- End products
- Almond torrone,Nougat bars,Soft milk candies,Gummy bears,Vitamin gummies,Peppermint filled candies,Creamy fondant frosting,Fruit jelly chews,Fish oil gelatin capsules,Cinnamon gums,Eclairs,Caramel toffees,Butterscotch hard candy,Fruit-filled chewy candies
- Steps before
- Mixing,Pre-cooking,Batch Heating
- Steps after
- Cooling,Packaging,Blister Packing
- Input ingredients
- sugar cone,pumpable fillings,low viscosity fillings,high viscosity fillings
- Output ingredients
- hard candies,soft candies,filled candies,unfilled candies,toffees,chewing gums,high-filled candies,seamless candies
- Market info
- Haensel-Processing is known for its expertise in developing and manufacturing high-quality engineered-to-order equipment for the confectionery industry, offering innovative solutions and customized machinery that enhance production efficiency and product quality.
- Speed
- 50 - 200 rope metres/min
- Size
- STRADA® versions 700,1200,1500,2000
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Roller adjustment
- Actuator with positioning control
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Temperature control
- Individually heatable roller pairs
- Forming Chain Changeover Time
- Within one minute
- Filling System
- Rope filling pump
- Filling Type
- Progressing cavity or lobe pumps
- Viscosity range for filling
- Low to high viscosity
- Filling Tube Material
- Teflon-coated
- Automation level
- PLC
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Changeover time
- 1 minute
- Cleaning method
- Accessible design
- User-friendliness
- High
- Hygiene standards
- Extended
- Dimensional accuracy
- High
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Heat sensitivity
- Yes
- Foaming
- No
- Batch roller size
- 700,1200,1500,2000 series
- Roller material
- Stainless steel
- Number of rollers
- Four conical rollers
- Rope sizer roller pairs
- Four or five pairs
- Forming machine size compatibility
- 700,1200,1500,2000 series
- Cone shape
- Uniform cone
- Control panel type
- PLC
- Accessible clearance height
- 200 mm
- Rope filling options
- Low to high viscosity
- Roller speed adjustment
- Yes
- Roller inclination adjustment
- Yes
- Roller temperature control
- Yes
- Actuator with positioning control
- Yes
- Change forming chains
- Quick change (within one minute)
- Filling pump flexibility
- Progressing cavity or lobe pumps