Confectionery
Transport and packaging for confectionery
Chocolate, sweets and dragées call for precise conveying and packaging that keeps pace with production. IntOCon builds custom machines that separate and align your products and deliver them to the packaging machine at the right spacing, and links your line into one integrated whole. You have a single point of contact, from the initial design to service after handover.
We deliver your products at the right spacing and perfectly aligned all the way into the packaging.
Our customers
Trusted by leading food producers
Chocolate and confectionery producers rely on IntOCon for conveying and packaging automation.
End products
Solutions for every confectionery product
Your challenge, our solution
One line, perfectly matched
Breakage of fragile products, a packaging machine that is not running at full capacity, or chocolate powder ending up in the pack: it costs you quality and production time. IntOCon designs the infeed to your packaging around your product.
- Capacity: conveying that separates products and brings them to the ideal spacing, so your packaging machine runs at full speed
- Flexibility: tool-free adjustable guides with laser-engraved setting positions for every format
- Product quality: blow-off units just before packaging and gentle transfers between belts
- Hygiene: open, easy-to-clean stainless steel constructions, finished with ViwateQ® Finishing
What we connect
From raw material to packaging, one connected line
The process machines in your line come from specialised builders. IntOCon designs and builds the conveying, handling and auxiliary equipment in between, including platforms, stairs and support structures. These are the steps in your confectionery line where we do that.
Raw material supply
Crate and box tippers, screw conveyors and hoppers for a controlled supply.
Around your process machines
Custom infeed and outfeed conveyors and transfers around your mixers, coaters and depositors.
Cooling
Spiral towers and infeed and outfeed conveyors around your cooling tunnels, for cooling on a compact footprint.
Conveying & distribution
Conveyor belts, curve conveyors and distribution conveyors that guide your product smoothly through the line.
Separating & aligning
Belts with adjustable side guides that separate and align products for the packaging machine.
Blow-off
Blow-off units just before packaging, so no powder or residue ends up in the pack.
Weighing & inspection
Weigh belts, metal detection conveyors and reject conveyors after checkweighing.
Packaging & end of line
Integration of your packaging machines, case turners, mergers and box and crate handling.
Machines
Machines for your confectionery line
Line advice
Curious what your line could still gain?
In an advisory meeting, one of our engineers looks with you at where your line is losing capacity, product or changeover time, and which adjustment will deliver the most. You get concrete advice, even when it concerns a small adjustment.
IntOCon at a glance
Custom stainless steel, from design to service
We don’t build off-the-shelf machines. We design every solution together with you, tailored to your product, your space and your way of working. We think along from the very first conversation and stay involved long after handover.
1998
Active since
Almost 30 years of custom stainless steel engineering, exclusively for the food industry.
100%
In-house
Engineering, production, assembly and test runs under one roof in Ypres. That lets us move fast.
5000 m²
Workshop
Our own laser cutting, bending, turning and milling departments, with a separate hall for assembly and test runs.
1000+
References
At producers in Belgium and abroad, across all sectors of the food industry.
Complete lines
Need more than conveying? We connect the entire line
If your project calls for a complete line, IntOCon brings together the right process machines. Through the Sticomax Group, we work with specialised machine builders from Belgium and the Netherlands. We design the connections between them and remain your point of contact, from engineering to service. These are the specialists we work with on your confectionery line.
Stumaco
Stumaco builds stainless steel screw conveyors, vibratory conveyors and belt conveyors in Staden. For confectionery lines, Stumaco supplies dosing screws, powder dosing units, calibrating and sorting vibrators and the platforms around your installation, among other things.
FoodeQ
FoodeQ from Steenbergen specialises in vibratory technology, with more than 2,500 vibratory conveyors delivered. For sweets and chocolate lines, FoodeQ supplies conveying, sieving, distribution and enclosed bulk vibratory conveyors, complemented by weigh belts and Eqlipse for dosing, weighing and filling.
Romonta
Romonta supplies coating and glazing lines for sweets, as well as belt dryers and belt coolers for sweets, toppings and chocolate. Romonta also builds ingredient dosing systems, from big bag lift to mixing drum, and a wide range of conveyor belts and crate handling.
ViwateQ
ViwateQ has developed a unique, chemical-free treatment for stainless steel. The surface of machines and lines becomes microscopically smooth, so sugar residues and other sticky product residues adhere less, and cleaning is faster and more thorough.
Cases
Experience with leading food producers
Service
Service that keeps your line running
A confectionery line often runs in multiple shifts, with peaks around the holidays. Every stoppage then costs production straight away. That is why we stay involved after installation. Because we design and build everything in-house, we know every machine in detail. And thanks to our close cooperation with partners such as Intralox, critical parts are on site quickly.
- On-site installation and commissioning
- Training for your operators and maintenance team
- Preventive maintenance and inspections
- Fast delivery of parts, also across borders
We are here to help
Contact
Discuss your confectionery line with a specialist
Tell us what you process, what capacity you need or where your current line is running into problems. An IntOCon specialist will contact you personally to discuss the options.
