The launch of new and innovative technology with the ability to deposit gum base and incorporate gums into candies and lollipops provides exciting new product opportunities for the confectionery industry.

Baker Perkins, world leader in depositing technology; CAFOSA, the leading gum base supplier; and Firmenich, the leading supplier of flavours have worked together to develop this exciting new technology.

New depositing lines and conversion kits retrofitted to existing plant can provide confectionery producers with access to the fastest growing sector in the confectionery industry. Multi coloured gum products, and striped or transparent hard candies and lollipops with a gum centre bring immense new product potential.

For existing gum producers, complete preparation-to-packaging depositing systems bring exciting possibilities in gum shape, coloured combinations of stripes and layers, and high percentage centre-fill products.

Gum-filled and gum piece products can be produced in sugar and sugar-free variants. Baker Perkins has extensive experience in the supply of equipment for sugar-free applications, and can add this capability to existing systems, or deliver new plant.

The recognized benefits of the depositing process provide quality and marketing advantages for gum products - including consistently high accuracy of shape and weight for cost control and packaging efficiency, plus the opportunity to produce unique and innovative products that cannot be made with traditional gum forming technologies.

Low scrap rates, labour requirements and maintenance needs all contribute to the attractive cost-of-ownership of depositing systems.

Hard candy products with gum centres are made on depositing plants with aluminium moulds. Depositing of gum only products is achieved using rubber moulds to ensure clean and efficient ejection of the finished product. Baker Perkins offers the ServoForm™ range of depositors including ServoForm™ Universal plants to enable production of the full range of gum products on one line.

The addition of gum to the wide catalogue of confectionery handled by Baker Perkins depositors follows intensive development work in the company’s Food Innovation Centre at Peterborough in the UK.

Baker Perkins has more than 500 confectionery depositors installed around the world, producing a broad selection of hard and soft candies, and lollipops. Complete solutions are offered, including product and process development, and equipment from ingredient handling through to packing.

CAFOSA, based in Barcelona, is the leading gum base supplier – one in every two chewing gum makers around the world chooses CAFOSA. There is a current portfolio of 70 standard-reference gum base products, and the ability to tailor any of them to the specific needs of each customer.

Firmenich is Swiss based and the largest privately held company in the fragrance and flavour industry worldwide. Flexarome Ò, the latest addition to their range of encapsulated flavour technologies offers visual appeal through particles of coloured flavour clearly visible in the candy. Flexarome Ò delivers an enhanced flavour release, ideally suited to deposited candies and lollipops.

A range of innovative gum products can be seen on Baker Perkin’s web site www.confectionery-innovations.com

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