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Toffee & caramel manufacturing technologies
Baker Perkins offers fully integrated toffee & caramel production systems designed to deliver precise dosing, fast changeovers, and hygienic processing. Our advanced technology ensures consistent quality and efficiency for toffees and caramels across food, health, and pharmaceutical applications.
Starch-free toffee and caramel manufacturing solutions for confectionery manufacturers
Toffees and caramels, including varieties such as traditional brown toffee, colored and flavored white toffee, striped or swirled pieces, and center-filled products with chocolate, nuts, or jam, are produced efficiently using advanced toffee and caramel manufacturing process technologies, the industry standard for high-quality confectionery.
Coperion’s advanced equipment ensures precise control over toffee and caramel size, shape, color, and flavor, supporting both traditional and innovative recipes.
From classic wrapped toffees to premium filled or striped designs, our integrated lines provide consistent quality and smooth scalability from lab trials to full-scale production. For enhanced product appeal, recipes can incorporate inclusions or center-fills, delivering variety and added value while maintaining high levels of efficiency and consistency.
The technology brands behind our toffee and caramel solutions
Examples of innovative toffee and caramel applications
Bring to the market a new generation of exciting toffees and caramels. From classic solid pieces to center-filled, striped, enrobed, or nut-studded confections, with fruity, indulgent milky, or chocolate flavors, our versatile concepts are crafted to delight today’s confectionery fans. And with recipe and process support from our global Test Center teams, we help turn every idea into sweet reality.
Chocolate-panned
Small toffees & fondant
Toffee
Filled striped
Toffee
Solid white
Toffee
With small inclusions
Toffee
Bars
Filled
Flavored
Toffee
Striped
Toffee
Chocolate filled
Toffee
Fruit-filled
Toffee
White filled
Toffee
Enrobed with nut inclusion
Toffee
Solid
Toffee
With large inclusions
How toffee and caramel production works
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Ingredient handling
Shick Esteve Bag dump stations provide a safe, dust-free way to manually add dry ingredients.
Liquid ingredients, such as glucose, are temporarily stored in our Shick Esteve Tank systems, or 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 automatically, 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.
Cooking
The cooking stage transforms the slurry into a precise sugar syrup with the final moisture content and temperature for toffee & caramel production. This step ensures consistency and quality across both standard and sugar-free recipes.
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.
All systems are designed for hygienic operation, consistent quality, and seamless integration with downstream wrapping equipment.
Caramelisation
Cooked syrup from the Microfilm is gently heated and agitated in the Carablend to produce the desired degree of caramelisation. This is determined by the residence time, which can be adjusted to the recipe. Butter, fondant, colours and flavours and other ingredients are easily added at any point in the process to produce the final caramel syrup
Depositing
Toffees and caramels are shaped by the Baker Perkins ServoForm™ soft confectionery depositor. The depositor accurately fills silicone rubber moulds with the caramelised syrup, producing consistently shaped pieces with smooth surfaces and uniform size and weight.
The system can produce solid, striped, or center-filled toffees and caramels. The depositor includes an integrated refrigerated cooling tunnel with mould ejection system and transfer conveyor for hygienic, fully automatic, high-speed production
See toffee & caramel depositing in action
Discover how Coperion can enhance your toffee and caramelproduction
Our starch-free toffee and caramel line delivers precise ingredient handling, accurate depositing, integrated color, and flavor addition.
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