Confectionery
At its finest
Your customers love sweets – and we love supporting you in producing your specialties: with state-of-the-art process technology and comprehensive process expertise from Zeppelin Systems.
Confectionery production at the highest level
Life may sometimes feel like a box of chocolates – full of surprises. But when it comes to confectionery production, uncertainty has no place. These are food products, after all, and must meet the highest standards of quality and safety. At the same time, as a producer of pralines, chocolate bars, cookies, fruit gummies, and more, you also aim to operate as efficiently and economically as possible.
Zeppelin Systems provides the ideal conditions for both: reliable product quality and cost-effective processes. As a trusted partner, we have worked with leading confectionery manufacturers for decades. Take advantage of our process know-how, technological expertise, and unwavering commitment to innovation. Because in confectionery production, success is no coincidence.
Application Areas
Chocolate Pralines
Cookies
Fruit Gummies
Chewing Gum
Optimally equipped with Zeppelin Systems
Challenges in confectionery production
Industrial confectionery production faces major challenges. The focus is on the quality of raw materials such as sugar, cocoa, or milk powder—whose availability and prices fluctuate significantly. While global market conditions may be beyond your control, Zeppelin Systems technologies allow you to precisely control your production processes, whether you're producing chocolate, hard candies, or fruit gummies.
Precise control for perfect products
Controlling factors such as temperature, humidity, and mixing ratios is our expertise. With Zeppelin Systems, you maintain full control over the consistency and shelf life of your products.
Fast implementation of trends
Leverage our expertise to quickly implement current market trends such as vegan, sugar-reduced, or sustainable products, as well as eco-friendly packaging and resource-efficient processes.
Efficiency meets innovation
With our flexible production strategies, we combine efficiency, quality, and innovation at the highest level.
Support for hygiene and safety compliance
Of course, we’re also at your side with expert advice and practical support when it comes to hygiene and food safety.
Process steps with potential
Efficient solutions powered by Zeppelin technologies and expertise
A detailed process with tremendous potential – and opportunities you can unlock with precision. Zeppelin Systems supports you not only with innovative technology components, but also with comprehensive process expertise gained from countless successfully implemented plants around the world.
Storage
Thought-out storage concepts
We develop customized solutions that take into account cooling, insulation, explosion protection, hygienic design, and optimized cleaning options—ensuring cost-effective and gentle storage of all raw materials.
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Discharge
Intelligent discharge modules
We offer customized discharge solutions such as big bag stations, sack tipping units, or fluidized beds with air loosening to ensure a consistent material flow and precise dosing. Our process experts work closely with you to identify the optimal solution tailored to your specific requirements.
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Conveying
Product-specific conveying
Benefit from our customized conveying systems designed specifically for sensitive raw materials. With technologies such as Lean-Tec, Dense-Tec, and Twin-Tec, products are transported gently and efficiently, while energy costs are optimized. The Dense-Tec process, in particular, offers excellent protection for fragile and break-sensitive materials.
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Sieving
Safety sieves for secure product quality
With our screening solutions such as rotary sieve machines and magnetic separators, we ensure the reliable removal of foreign particles from incoming materials. Whether used as pre-sieves, post-sieves, or inline screening units, our systems provide ideal starting conditions for smooth processes and consistently high product quality.
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Weighing & Dosing
Maximum precision in weighing and dosing
Our customized solutions for dosing and weighing range from manual systems to fully automated high-performance installations such as MicDos, MinDos, and MacDos. With advanced technologies like dosing and conveying screws or KOKEISL technology, even sensitive products are handled gently and precisely.
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Homogenizing
Even distribution thanks to coordinated mixing concepts
We offer versatile solutions for a wide range of raw materials such as pre-doughs, glazes, and bulk materials. The ShearDos mixer ensures uniform suspensions through intensive shearing, while the Codos mixer provides continuous mixing and a temperature-controlled trough design, creating optimal processing conditions for your products.
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Experience and expertise
Decades of experience in plant engineering for the food industry result in economical, resource-efficient, and highly effective solutions for our customers—whether for a new installation or the modernization of an existing brownfield facility.
Industrial-scale testing
The Food Technology Center is equipped with test facilities for dosing, conveying, weighing, sieving, and mixing of formulations. On-site trials and tests enable system optimization and provide a reliable basis for designing efficient plant solutions.
Tailored solutions
All systems are precisely tailored to the specific requirements of your processes and materials.
Innovative technologies
Cutting-edge technologies for maximum energy and process efficiency, reliability, and sustainability in the processing of high-quality bulk materials.
Global delivery and support
A global presence ensures a comprehensive worldwide service and maintenance network.
High efficiency and cost savings
Optimized processes and automated workflows reduce operating costs and boost productivity.
Top quality standards
Use of premium materials and technologies that ensure long-term reliability and low maintenance costs.
Sustainability focus
Systems designed to reduce energy consumption and emissions actively support your environmental and sustainability goals.
With Zeppelin, you gain maximum control over fermentation, pre-mixing, and kneading processes
Moistening and mixing with the DymoMix
The DymoMix operates at extremely high speed and ensures dust-free processing while producing doughs with a consistently homogeneous texture. Dry ingredients such as flour are fully wetted with liquids within seconds, aerated, and thoroughly mixed. This process results in high-quality doughs that can be used directly or seamlessly transferred to downstream production steps such as batch kneading or the continuously operating Conti-Kneter.
Mixing and kneading system with Codos
Whether it’s your favorite cookie, a pretzel, or a chia roll – consumers expect their product to always taste the same. The best foundation for this is the continuous mixing and kneading system Codos. It delivers consistent dough quality around the clock, even in high volumes: 20,000 pretzels per hour, 2 million rolls per day, or 3 tons of cookie dough per hour are no problem. The result is always uniform and optimal, with a stable dough temperature maintained throughout the process.
Unlike traditional batch kneaders, the Codos system can save up to 30% energy. It includes the entire dry and liquid ingredient dosing, as well as the mixer and kneader. Thanks to its modular design—featuring the Codos Tower, DymoMix™, and Codos NT kneader—the solution from Zeppelin Systems can be flexibly integrated to meet your specific production needs.
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Zeppelin Technical Center
Industrial-scale testing
Testing is good; testing at a 1:1 scale under real-world conditions is even better. To support this, we have established optimal facilities at our Friedrichshafen technical center: based on your recipe and desired throughput, we identify the plant technology tailored to your needs—and test the complete system for you in live operation.
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Automation
Automation with foresight
Above all, your plant must do one thing: run and deliver. That’s why we provide you with reliable, professional service. Rely on our global service network for expert consultation and extremely fast spare-parts supply to minimize downtime. When needed, we’re also at your side digitally—from virtual troubleshooting to online-supported commissioning.
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Service
Service without compromise
In the 21st century, optimization often means automation. We ensure that your automation project is a complete success in terms of both efficiency and cost-effectiveness. To achieve this, we rely on cutting-edge control systems whose open architectures prepare you for the challenges of tomorrow—and beyond.
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