Snacks & Confectionery
High-speed packaging for pretzels, celery, crackers, candy, gummies, chocolate and confectionery products. Multihead weighers for precise portioning, VFFS bagmakers for pillow and gusseted bags and flow wrappers for individually wrapped items.
Snacks and confectionery cover the widest range of pack formats of any category we serve, because the products have almost nothing in common except the grocery aisle they end up in.
A bag of chips is a quantity. A chocolate bar is a piece. Those two facts point at different machine architectures, and choosing the right one at the start is what makes everything after it straightforward.
Sold by weight, or sold as a unit?
If the pack is a container for a weighed quantity, a Hastamat multihead weigher feeding a vertical bagmaker is the architecture that pays. The weigher sets your giveaway and the bagmaker sets your bag style, and together they set both your rate and your margin.
If the pack presents a single item, you want a wrapper. LoeschPack flow wrapping suits bars, biscuits and anything that holds its shape. Fold wrapping suits premium chocolate tablets, where the pack is part of what the customer is buying.
What shapes a confectionery specification
- Chocolate is temperature sensitive, so product conditioning and the temperature at the wrapper infeed are specified as part of the line.
- Gummies and jellies are tacky, so contact surfaces, feeding and weigher settings are selected for how the product behaves.
- Pretzels and crackers are fragile, so gentle transfers and controlled drop heights protect piece integrity on the way to the bag.
- Seasonal SKU peaks make quick, repeatable changeover a valuable part of the specification.
Where Piepenbrock Packaging starts
With the product, not the catalog. Send Piepenbrock Packaging what you make, the pack you need on the shelf and the rate you need to hold, and we will recommend the architecture it points to and configure it with LoeschPack or Hastamat. Which packaging machine do I need walks through the same decision in more detail.
Machines for Snacks & Confectionery
- FHW Horizontal Flow Wrapper LoeschPack's proven continuous-motion flow wrapper for sheet and bar products, running at up to 1,500 products per minute with a seal that holds across the long axis.
- FHW-S Horizontal Flow Wrapper LoeschPack's flagship high-speed flow wrapper for chocolate bars, biscuits and bakery, engineered for up to 2,100 products per minute. Paper and plastics on one platform, changed at the touch of a button.
- LTM-DUO Twin-Station Fold Wrapper LoeschPack's premium twin-station fold wrapper for chocolate tablets and bars: up to 215 tablets per minute, with a sealed inner foil inside an outer paper or board wrap.
- RCB Wrapping-Head Fold Wrapper LoeschPack's wrapping-head fold wrapper for premium confectionery, combining a hermetic seal with a traditional fold-wrapped appearance at up to 600 products per minute.
- CP Hygienic Design Weigher Hastamat's wet-area multihead weigher, developed for fresh and frozen food production with stainless contact parts and a separated control cabinet.
- CP Series Multihead Weigher Hastamat's scalable combination weigher, with up to 24 weighing hoppers and up to 240 weighing procedures per minute.
- R/RM Series Vertical Form Fill Seal Hastamat's all-purpose bagmaker: up to 250 bags per minute across the widest span of bag styles and products in the Hastamat range.
- LoeschPack Complete Packaging Line An engineered-to-order LoeschPack line: buffering, feeding, primary wrapping, tray loading, cartoning and overwrapping, specified, commissioned and supported as one scope.
- Hastamat Complete Bagging Line A complete Hastamat line: feeding, weighing or dosing, bagging and case packing, specified and commissioned as one scope.
Flow Wrapping Sticky and Fragile Products
Thomas Czioska and Christoph Recher, LoeschPack
Thomas Czioska says flow wrapping capacity scales with the production line: a huge line needs more flow wrapping equipment, while a smaller one may need only one machine.
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Common questions
- We make both bagged snacks and wrapped bars. Do we need two lines?
- Each format runs best on a line engineered for it, and that is where both the output and the pack quality come from. Bagged snacks are weighed and bagged on a Hastamat multihead weigher and vertical bagmaker, while wrapped bars are handled on a LoeschPack flow or fold wrapper built around piece handling. Which line comes first is usually a volume and payback decision, and plenty of plants phase the two. Send PPT USA both product ranges and we will sequence the investment with you and configure each line with the manufacturer.
- How do we stop chocolate marking in the wrapper?
- LoeschPack wrappers are engineered for gentle product handling, and chocolate runs well when the bar reaches the infeed conditioned and at a steady pitch. Product temperature and the transfer between cooling and wrapping are the configuration inputs that matter most, so they are specified with the machine instead of left to the floor. PPT USA reviews the conditioning and the product path with LoeschPack, so the wrapper is fed exactly the product it was built to wrap.
Packaging snacks & confectionery?
Tell us the product and the pack you need. We will come back with the architecture that fits, a realistic sustained-output figure and what is worth proving on a sample first.
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We read every one of these ourselves. Expect a reply from a person who has specified this kind of line before.
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