Chocolate & Confectionery Packaging
PFM offers chocolate and confectionery producers a wide range of automatic and robotized packaging solutions designed for high-speed production and maximum efficiency. Easy to integrate and operate, PFM machines ensure fast format changes, gentle product handling and consistent packaging quality with reliable sealing and aesthetically perfect packages.
Example of confectionery products:
Chocolate bars
Chocolate bars are heat-sensitive and require protection from oxygen, moisture, and light while maintaining tight seals at high speeds. PFM flow-wrap solutions with hot or cold seal technology and servo-driven control ensure stable packaging and high-throughput performance.
Cereal bars
Cereal bars are prone to crumbling, deformation, and handling issues due to sticky binders and coatings. PFM flow-wrap systems with gentle feeding and precise recipe control support accurate positioning and consistent pack formation.
Chocolate-covered nuts
Chocolate-covered nuts present abrasion, oxidation, and puncture risks, especially in multi-serve formats. PFM VFFS solutions with gentle weighing systems and reclosable stand-up pouch options protect product integrity and extend usability.
Chocolate-covered pretzels
Sharp edges and fragile structures increase breakage and film damage risks. PFM VFFS packaging with robust sealing parameters and controlled handling minimizes product stress and ensures reliable pack strength.
Chocolate-covered fruit
Moisture migration and stickiness create sealing and quality challenges in chocolate-covered fruit products. PFM VFFS systems with controlled product routing and optimized sealing windows help maintain product stability and pack integrity.
Fruit snacks
Fruit snacks are hygroscopic and sticky, requiring precise portioning and adaptable formats at high speeds. PFM high-speed flow-wrap and weigh-and-bag solutions enable clean handling, flexible formats, and consistent packaging performance.
Fruit bars
Fruit bars combine multiple components that increase moisture migration, stickiness, and deformation risks. PFM flow-wrap solutions with gentle feeding from cooling tunnels and servo-controlled sealing parameters ensure stable handling and reliable pack integrity.
Wafers
Wafers are extremely fragile and sensitive to moisture loss, which can compromise crispness and cause breakage. PFM high-speed flow-wrap lines with optimized stacking, gentle handling, and moisture-barrier packaging help preserve product structure and quality.
Cakes and sweets
Soft textures and fillings make cakes and sweets prone to deformation and moisture-related shelf-life issues. PFM multi-lane flow-wrap systems with sanitary design and tailored pack geometry support gentle handling and consistent packaging performance.
Chocolate tablets
Chocolate tablets are brittle and heat-sensitive, requiring strong barrier protection and precise sealing aesthetics. PFM servo-driven flow-wrap solutions with hot or cold seal compatibility ensure controlled sealing and high-quality pack presentation.
Advanced flexible packaging for the chocolate & confectionery industry
Chocolate and confectionery products present complex packaging challenges related to temperature sensitivity, moisture control and product fragility. Chocolate requires protection from heat, oxygen and humidity to prevent quality defects such as bloom, while sugar-based confectionery products can be sticky, hygroscopic and highly variable in shape. High production speeds and frequent product changes further require stable handling and precise sealing performance.
PFM packaging solutions combine high-speed automation, gentle feeding systems and flexible sealing technologies to ensure consistent product protection and efficient production. From single bars to bulk multipacks, PFM technologies maintain product integrity while supporting a wide range of packaging formats and materials.
High-Speed Automated Packaging Lines
PFM integrates robotized handling, buffering and feeding systems that automatically collect, align and load products from cooling tunnels directly into packaging machines, maximizing productivity and line efficiency.
Gentle Product Handling for Fragile and Sticky Products
Dedicated feeding systems and advanced multihead weighing technologies minimize product stress, reducing breakage, deformation and product accumulation typical of confectionery applications.
Flexible Multi-Format Packaging Solutions
PFM machines produce a wide range of pack styles including pillow packs, gusseted bags, stand-up pouches, reclosable formats and multipacks adapting easily to different product shapes and market requirements.
Fast Changeovers and Production Flexibility
Servo-driven controls an automatic reel splicing systems enable rapid format adjustments and recipe-based settings, allowing manufacturers to manage frequent SKU changes without reducing efficiency or packaging consistency.
Example of Packs
High production capacity?
PFM meets the demands of large bakeries by devoting to this sector a whole subsidiary of the Group. SPS Italiana Pack Systems S.p.A., designs and manufactures completely automatic lines for the handling, feeding and packaging of baked products and biscuits.
PFM Group manufactures automatic packaging lines to meet the demands of large bakery companies
The products coming out of the tunnel oven or from the cooling tunnel are automatically collected, aligned, directed and loaded onto the line or using 90° systems directly on the flow packaging machines. In such cases, lines are customized and designed according to the specific requirement of each and every client.
Automated Packaging Lines
The range of automated packaging lines PFM is specifically designed to meet any need of flexible packaging for food and non-food applications.
Dedicated Machines
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Levante
The PFM Levante is a high-speed horizontal flow wrapper designed to produce pillow-pack bags from an open roll of hot or cold sealable material, combining speed, control and reliability for continuous, high-performance production.
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Pearl
Full servo horizontal pillow-pack wrapper to obtain pillow-pack style packs from a flat reel of heat/cold sealable wrapping material.
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Solaris Evo
The Solaris EVO is th high speed continuous motion vertical form fill and seal wrapper that produces 3-side sealed pillow-bags, block-bottom and Steelo- bags, doy-style bags also with zip and eurohole.
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Zenith
The PFM ZENITH is a vertical form fill seal machine designed for granular products (chips/crisps, candies and many others), combining dosing systems and wrapping into a stable and easy-to-manage process.
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Zephyr
High speed wrapper designed with cantilevered main frame and vertical plate for complete separation product/drive elements to run on multi-shift operations.
