Gummy applications
Gummy & jelly manufacturing solutions
Coperion offers fully integrated, starch-free gummy and jelly production systems designed to deliver precise dosing, fast changeovers, and hygienic processing. Our advanced technology supports consistent quality and efficiency for gummies and jellies used in food, health, and pharmaceutical industries.
Starch-free manufacturing technologies for clean-label premium gummy & jelly positioning
Coperion’s starch-free gummy and jelly production offers a cleaner and more efficient alternative to traditional starch molding. This results in a final product with a powder-free appearance and smoother surface.
Hygienic benefits of starch-free lines
Starch-free manufacturing also offers benefits in term of hygiene, precision, and flexibility: Coperion’s system eliminates the drying step and reduces contamination risks, making it ideal for gummies and jellies in food, health, and nutraceutical applications.
From lab-scale to full industrial production lines
Whether producing small batches or scaling up, manufacturers benefit from faster changeovers, consistent quality, and the ability to handle heat-sensitive ingredients with confidence. This streamlined process helps future-proof gummy and jelly production and supports innovation.
Adding value with premium end product characteristics
Coperion offers multiple options that allow to further increase your product positioning: multi-color appearance, center-fills, inclusions, 3D shapes and innovative coatings can that enhance gummy and jelly variety
The technology brands behind our gummy & jelly solutions
How gummy & jelly production works
Ingredient handling
Shick Esteve Bag dump stations provide a safe, dust-free way to manually add dry ingredients.
For liquid ingredients, such as glucose syrup, are temporarily stored in Shick Esteve Tank systems, or Shick Esteve Tote systems, and then delivered through pumps.
Weighing & mixing
The main mixing process takes place in the Baker Perkins Autofeed. Batches of dry and liquid ingredients are accurately weighed and mixed to form a slurry then held in a reservoir tank to provide a continuous feed to the cooker. Full batch reporting is available.
For smaller systems without automated ingredient handling, a manually-loaded slurry preparation system is available
Cooking
The cooking stage prepares syrup with precision and consistency, while accommodating various formulations, for small batches and high-output continuous production.
For automated, high output lines and specialty recipes, the Baker Perkins Microfilm™ cooker offers vacuum thin-film technology for rapid, gentle cooking of heat-sensitive ingredients and syrups with inclusions.
Other options include:
- the Baker Perkins Turbofilm™ cooker, a compact unit combining syrup
dissolving and plate-pack cooking for standard lines - the Baker Perkins Turbofilm™ mini cooker for small-scale continuous
processing - the Baker Perkins JellyCook™ batch cooker for small batch production or
lab use
All systems are designed for hygienic operation, consistent quality, and seamless integration with depositing equipment.
Additions system
Colors, flavors, acid and additions such as vitamin C are mixed into the syrup stream as it is transferred to the depositor in heated pipework. The additions are stored in individual tanks (stirred if necessary) and metered into a static or dynamic inline mixer by high-accuracy peristaltic pumps.
Starch-free depositing
The Baker Perkins ServoForm Mini and Flexi depositors use hygienic plastic moulds to form the gummies and jellies instead of the traditional starch moulds. After depositing, the moulds are stacked and transferred to a conditioning room to set an develop their texture. This maximises process flexibility while improving hygiene and reducing energy consumption and floorspace.
Systems are available in four output ranges and levels of automation
- ServoForm Flexi+ automated continuous process with automated mould handling for outputs up to 1,000kg/hr
- Servoform Flexi continuous production system with manual mould handling for outputs up to 300kg/hr.
- ServoForm Flexi batch production system for outputs up to 120kg/hr. With the Flexi depositor at its heart this system can be scaled up to 300kg/hr by adding a continuous cooking system.
- ServoForm Mini small batch system for short production runs and lab work.
Demoulding
After conditioning, the stacks of finished gummies and jellies are brought to the demoulder and the moulds inverted as they are transferred manually or automatically to the demoulder. This uses a combination of mechanical and pneumatic methods to dislodge and then demould the products.
Finishing
No cleaning to remove starch is required so after demoulding the gummies and jellies are transferred directly to finishing where a coating is applied to prevent sticking. Typically, an oil, sugar or fibre coating is applied in a continuous rotating drum including the Baker Perkins Sugar Sander Mini.
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See Coperion’s starch free gummy/jelly production with a clean and precise process that boosts quality, speeds changeovers and enables innovative gummy and jelly varieties while ensuring hygiene and efficiency.
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