Chocolate Filling Machine

Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Chocolate spread is a sweet chocolate-flavored paste which is eaten mostly spread on breads and toasts or similar grain items such as waffles, pancakes, muffins, and pitas.

Although it tastes, smells, and looks like chocolate, it does not solidify, even at room temperature. The paste usually contains cocoa and vegetable or palm oil, and is also likely to contain milk, sugar and additional flavors. Some varieties include nuts or honey. Chocolate spread is normally sold in glass jars or plastic squeeze bottles.[From Wiki]

The main packaging containers for chocolate spreads on the market are: glass jars with metal lids, plastic jars with threaded lids and plastic squeeze bottles.

Usually chocolate spread is liquid at room temperature, but the viscosity is very high, obviously in this case, gravity and overflow filling machine can not meet the chocolate sauce filling.VKPAK priority recommendation is rotary lobe pump filling machine, this machine is specially designed for high viscosity material, especially suitable for chocolate sauce, butter, peanut butter and so on. In terms of cleaning, the machine can be connected to a CIP system for fast and efficient cleaning, and one machine can fill a wide range of materials without having to change accessories.

Rotary lobe pump filling machine has most of the advantages, but the cost of the machine compared to other machines to be higher, for chocolate spread and other materials with high viscosity, there is another option that is the piston pump hot filling machine, the machine in the traditional piston filling machine based on the addition of heating function. The hopper, piston cylinder and filling nozzle are all wrapped with heating wire, which increases the temperature to accelerate the fluidity of the material, and then with the piston quantitative filling to complete the bottling and packaging of chocolate sauce. In terms of cleaning, our machine is equipped with a quick disassembly and cleaning module. This machine is a good choice when the budget is not sufficient.

Chocolate bottle & jar capping machine, usually choose the following equipment, the specific machine selection needs to be based on the shape of the cap, size, capping method to decide. For example (as in the above common chocolate bottles): Spindle capping machine is recommended for black chocolate spread jars, Lug capping machine is recommended for metal lug caps, and four-wheel capping machine or chuck type capping machine is recommended for squeeze bottles.

Chocolate jar & bottle labeling machine, usually choose the following equipment, the specific machine selection needs to be based on the shape of the container, the size of the container, label size to decide. For example (such as the common chocolate bottles mentioned above). Black chocolate jam jar is recommended to use round bottle labeling machine; White chocolate spread jar is recommended to use round bottle positioning labeling machine with top flat labeling head; Chocolate spread glass jar is recommended to use single-sided labeling machine with labeling device; Chocolate spread squeeze bottle is recommended to use round bottle labeling machine or positioning labeling machine.
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Chocolate cream or chocolate spread is a smooth delight generally made from a mixture of vegetable oil and cocoa, but also other ingredients that make this paste irresistible such as nuts or milk. Usually sold in plastic or glass jars, chocolate spread can also be sold in tubes and other innovative packaging.

VKPAK has all the perfect solutions to pack such a viscous and delicate product, whatever the recipe is. In fact, the quality of our machines guarantees a clean and accurate filling, either automatic or semi-automatic, versatile and efficient capping, and a labeling system adapted to the customer’s needs.

Automatic Chocolate Spread Filling Line

For a higher capacity, several options can be found within VKPAK’s filling machines ranges, either two, four, six, 8 heads or more heads, (See here our automatic filling machines) we adapt to the customer’s needs and budget. Together with the filling, other machines are proposed to fully automize the packaging line, from the air rinsing to get any dust or glass residues that could be unsafe for the final customer, the UV tunnel to disinfect the recipents from viruses and bacterias, the sealing machine that seals the foils into the recipients before going to the capping machine with or without automatic sorting, placing and pushing or screwing of the caps (depending on the capacities and the cap types), a labeling machine completes then the line by placing auto adhesive stickers either one or two ways, whatever the shape or size the recipient is.

To get started with the design and implementation of a complete liquid packaging system for chocolate spread or other viscous liquid products, contact VKPAK to speak with an expert immediately.