Sweets processing – you name it. We process it.

From manufacturing gummies, jellies, toffees and caramels to fondants, hard candy or even healthy nutraceuticals – whether the products are mono, filled, multi-colored or multi-flavored – the industry of sweets is as diverse as mankind itself. Our process technology helps you bring your product vision to life. We assess your individual product requirements and find the ideal solution, either based on mogul processes or a starchless depositing solution. Lets create innovative products together.

We want your products to spark people’s imagination and stand out from competition. To do so, we take a deep dive into your production processes and product requirements. We know the confectionery market and help you reach your production targets with high quality and efficiency – for your individual products and needs!

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JELLY triple layer

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JELLY mono

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JELLY aerated

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JELLY triple layer

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JELLY starlight

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JELLY Alu blister

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FONDANT double layer

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TOFFEE mono & starlight

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HARD CANDY starlight

Key benefits

High-quality sweets

From ingredient preparation to the finished product – our kitchen and depositing solutions are highly precise and handle products gently to ensure the highest quality.

Efficient production processes

Our reliable and adjustable production processes can integrate a variety of automated solutions to enhance efficiency.

Your reliable partner

We provide you with system competence and consulting from a single source – a key advantage for complex projects and long-term customer support.

Expertise along the entire value stream

We combine seamless production processes, beginning with kitchen technology right through to product finishing technology. Our Makat brand represents over 90 years of knowledge, experience and close collaboration with our customers.
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Innovative jelly processing

Our flexible technologies help you create the confectionery products you envision – and opens new doors to a variety of candy types. Take a look at our integrated end-to-end solutions for jelly manufacturing.

Our Application Technology Center makes your sweet dreams come true

Our service begins with your product. At our Application Technology Center, you benefit from our experts’ knowledge. Our team offers a variety of services, such as testing and refining recipes together with you, reproducing and testing production processes or adapting existing machines to your individual requirements. Sounds interesting?

Our kitchen technology

Kitchen technology is the basis for manufacturing high quality confectionery masses. This process step includes preparing the ingredients, as well as dissolving, coloring and flavoring the mass. We offer flexible and modular kitchen solutions for all types of gelling agents. Together, we design your individual kitchen solution tailored to your products and production needs – from laboratory kitchen to customized high output solutions. We make sure you get the optimal line setup for your application.

Benefits:

Accurate dosing of ingredients with flow meter and/or weighing cells
High recipe accuracy
Homogeneous mixing results
Gentle treatment of the jelly mass during each process step
Clear and transparent jelly mass for highest product quality
Energy-efficient production processes and short cleaning times

The first step towards high quality confectionery is homogenous dissolving of raw materials. Our Makat BLS dissolving unit is available with various configuration options, such as weighing cells, different stirrers or attached dosing devices like auger feeders or valves. This allows you to customize your system to optimally suit your raw materials.

On demand, the suspension can be transferred to the Makat BDS Gravomat – a flexible weighing and dosing system for highest product quality requirements. With its precise weighing cells and comprehensive recipe management, you can control and customize each step of the dosing process to ensure recipe accuracy.

The Makat BLK Rapidsolver is the core of our kitchen and a proprietary pressure dissolver. The flexible system makes sure all recipe components are handled adequately. Its hygienic design avoids dead corners and features a first-in first-out concept for clear and transparent jelly masses. Our Rapidsolver technology enables energy savings that can even be enhanced by adding the innovative Energy Recovery System, which reduces the required amount of steam and cool water, making production more sustainable and cost-efficient. Particularly high dry substances can be reached with our Rapidsolver Solids⁺ execution.

Our Makat BKS filling cooker suits different operating methods and mass viscosities. It features an automated steam shut-off when the desired cooking temperature is reached.

We provide various solutions for the blending process, including functional supplements mixing systems for liquid and dry ingredients.

Our Makat BMG gravimetric dosing and mixing unit allows for a batchwise production and reduces product loss. A patented stirrer ensures mixing without bubbles and is able to mix colors into foam masses without reducing the density.

Our Makat BMV volumetric dosing and mixing unit continuously adds ingredients to masses. It uses membrane pumps with flow control to ensure precise dosing of ingredients, even in small quantities. The integrated double-X mixer can be adjusted to the viscosity of jelly masses and ensures even textures.

The continuous aerating system BKK is used to manufacture foam sugar masses. It allows you to continuously adjust parameters such as mixing action, system pressure, flow rate, temperature and ratio between liquid and gas phase to provide an even texture with repeatable high product quality and a more stable foam. Liquid components such as color, flavor and acid can be added in the aerating head.

Our depositing technology

Our portfolio includes starch-based and starchless depositing solutions for various confectionery and nutraceutical applications, such as gummies and jellies, toffee and caramel, fondants or hard candies. Our depositing lines are available in different sizes to meet your production capacities. Are you looking for a Makat GML laboratory depositor or a high output line such as the Makat HLM 35 RS Jumbo Mogul? We support you in finding the optimal depositing solution for your candies from the very beginning.

Benefits:

High-quality sweets thanks to precise and reproducible depositing and smooth product handling
Maximum color variation with minimum number of format parts
High machine availability thanks to robust design, process monitoring and parameter control
Safe food processing due to hygienic design and easy cleaning

The high-performance mogul lines Makat HLM 35 RS and Makat HLM 35 RS Jumbo are well established on the market for starchbased depositing. The lines provide flexibility with easy printing board exchanges to form negative molds. Reproducible and precise depositing results ensure consistently high product quality. Our mogul lines are equipped with the Makat RS system (Roto-step), a proven servo-driven chainless tray transport for accurate and smooth product handling and minimum wear. In case your candies require gentle handling or chocolate enrobing, the Makat PMU starch mogul line with orderly destarching might be the right match.

Gentle starch handling and excellent starch condition are a prerequisite for high-quality confectionery and stable production processes. The Makat TF system for starch drying and cooling completes the process after depositing jelly masses into starch with our Makat HLM or PMU. The whirl layer system offers excellent heat transfer properties and allows you to adjust the residual time and energy input. It ensures gentle starch handling and consistent starch conditioning results all year round, regardless of external humidity and climate. An additional benefit: it significantly saves energy compared with conventional stream dryer systems.

Besides the traditional mogul process, confectionery products can also be deposited into reusable molds in a starchless depositing process. The molds are transported through an integrated cooling unit until they reach the required demolding temperature. Depending on the confectionery product, there are different molding systems available. Our starchless depositing portfolio includes the CMP series and the HC series – both can be configured to match your production needs with varying numbers and types of depositors.

Our product finishing technology

The product finishing process adds final touches to your product before it reaches the packaging process. The finishing process not only impacts the appearance and taste, but also the shelf life of your products. Whether you want to oil or sugarcoat your sweets, our finishing equipment allows gentle handling of all products.

Benefits:

Continuous and thorough finishing of your products
Various setting options to fit your needs during production
Suitable for different polishing agents and crystal sugars
Hygienic design and stainless steel execution
Easy access and cleaning due to wide-door design

To get a nice gloss on your gummies and jellies and safeguard them against environmental factors, confectionery products can be oiled using our Makat B96, available in different sizes. In a rotating drum, the polishing agent is added continuosly, while the amount of oil, as well as the dwell time of your sweets in the drum can be adjusted to your product’s needs.

Another finishing process is gummy and jelly sugaring. Our sugar sanding line Makat B95 consists of a vibration chute, a steaming belt, and a sugar sanding drum with integrated switch cabinet. A variety of setting options makes sure the sanding process matches your individual product requirements – for efficiently applying sugar crystals to your gummies and jellies for an even and long-lasting sugaring result.

Markets and applications

Confectionery sweets

There seems to be no limit to colors and shapes in the confectionery industry. Check out our wide range of solutions for processing and packaging confectionery. We are happy to advise you on industry-specific features and benefits.

Nutraceutical sweets

The market of fortified and functional sweets, such as nutraceutical gummies, jellies or hard candies, is growing rapidly. We are ready to support you with future-proof solutions for medicated confectionery.

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We have experience

Makat is a well-established brand in the industry and a leading provider for solutions in confectionery manufacturing. Our passion for sweets starts with your product vision – we accompany your production processes until your finished product reaches supermarket shelves. From traditional candy to functional OTC products for health and beauty supplementation, we closely monitor market developments and trends and use our knowledge to develop tailor-made solutions for you.

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Frequently asked questions

Makat is a strong brand with more than 90 years of experience in the confectionery manufacturing market. Our expertise in engineering and production processes has made us a leading provider for sweets processing solutions. We know what it takes to establish efficient production processes from ingredient preparation to packaging finished products. Our turnkey solutions enable seamless production processes with a consistent end-to-end system design. Every production step is taken into account, aiming for high-quality gummies and jellies. We make sure you are working with the same team during the entire project. We accompany and support you in finding, fine-tuning, and maintaining the optimal sweets processing solutions for your application. We are happy to help whenever there are questions, problems, or changes during the project or afterwards.

We have the attitude that there is a solution for every application, you just need to find it. We have over 90 years of expertise in processing confectionery products, including very common ones but also products that pose different challenges in processing and require additional features to handle their individual specifications. We can reproduce and test all production processes and recipes in our Application Technology Center to make sure your product is running properly on your line. Whatever the challenge, we look forward to discussing your use case and advising you on how to set up successful manufacturing processes.

You have the idea – we bring in our expertise in sweets processing. We offer consulting, implementation, and service from a single source. In our Application Technology Center, we analyze your individual requirements, develop products and matching processing solutions together with you and test them under conditions similar to those in your production. We support you in finding, fine-tuning, and maintaining your ideal processing solution and help you to launch your products to the market quickly. Our understanding of a partnership does not end with the installation of a machine. You need training services? We offer a broad spectrum, either in our Application Technology Center or at your manufacturing site. If existing machines need to be adapted, we are there to optimize the performance and profitability of your line. Whatever support you need, we are happy to help.

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Sweets processing – you name it. We process it.

Key benefits

High-quality sweets

Efficient production processes

Your reliable partner

Makat – your brand for high quality process solutions and services

Expertise along the entire value stream

Innovative jelly processing

Our Application Technology Center makes your sweet dreams come true

Choose your sweets processing equipment

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Our depositing technology

Our product finishing technology

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Modernizations

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