Continuous Hard Candy

AD Process Equipment implemented a fully automated packaged production skid for a national candy manufacturer. This skid contained all the necessary equipment and controls to continuously produce hard sugar candy and sugar-free hard candy.

Project highlights:

• Automatic start-up, shut down, and wash out via HMI screen.
• Recipe development screen.
• Accurate heating of the product via a pre-cooking and final-cooking process.
• Vacuum chamber which eliminates almost all moisture in product.
• Pneumatic valves and various temperature sensors to aid in automation.
• A continuous cooling wheel provides efficient product cooling.