PCO is a major supplier of chocolate forming/moulding equipment, with systems designed for the production of industrial ingredients – chips, chunks, drops and blocks – and decorative products such as shavings, rolls, pencils, blossoms and many more.
The company will use ProSweets 2025 to focus on the production benefits of its flagship system, the IPCO Rotoform HP rotary drop depositor. IPCO will also have details of high productivity triple pass chocolate cooling systems, including a system capable of producing chips, chunks and wafers on the same line.
“Rotoform is at the heart of all our high capacity chocolate forming solutions,” explains Mitchell Paquaij, IPCO Global Product Manager, Food, “and we invite visitors to come and see the system in operation on our stand.”
Rotoform HP – High Performance
The latest model in the Rotoform range – and being demonstrated at ProSweets – is the HP (High Performance) model, a purpose-designed system that brings new levels of productivity in chocolate chip forming.
The Rotoform consists of a heated stator – which is supplied with liquid chocolate – and a perforated rotating shell that turns concentrically around the stator to deposit drops of chocolate onto a continuously running steel belt. A system of baffles and internal nozzles provides uniform pressure across the whole belt width, delivering chips of uniform shape and size.
The circumferential speed of
the Rotoform is synchronized
with the speed of the belt: drops are therefore deposited without deformation. The heat of the drops is transferred to cooling air blown onto the product and also to the belt itself. A short cooling time means that very little oxygen can penetrate the product.
Chips are free flowing for easy handling, storage and dosing. Chips of different sizes – from 30,000 to 300 pcs/kg – can be produced by simply changing the shell.
