Principals : Lehmann

F.B. Lehmann, of Germany, has been in business for more than 150 years providing state of the art chocolate and compound processing systems. Lehmann has a complete range of equipment for the manufacturing of chocolate; compound coatings as well as nut pastes and nut butters, all of which make extensive use of their technologically advanced ball mills and newly re-designed roll refiners. Their turnkey lines from bean to finished chocolate include cocoa bean feeding and cleaning, continuous roasting, sterilizing, winnowing, alkalizing, disk mills, ball mills or roll refiners along with all necessary ancillary equipment. 

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Lehmann’s food equipment falls into two main categories: firstly the processing of cocoa and nuts and secondly the processing of chocolate and compound.

Cocoa and Nut Processing:

Turn key processing lines

Cleaning machines & destoners

Roasters & dryers

Breakers & winnowers

Sterilizing & alkalizing lines

Ball mills & disk refiners

Heat exchangers & filling lines

Flavour treatment lines

Handling & conveying systems

Screening & storage systems

For processing of:
Cocoa beans, cocoa nibs, cocoa liquor as well as most types of nuts including: almonds, cashews, etc. as well as sesame and other oil seeds.  Refining and the processing of sugar, milk powder, cocoa powder and other bulk material is also included in their range.

Chocolate, Compound and Cream Processing:

Turn key processing lines

Mixers & stirrer tanks

Roll refiners & ball mills

Flavour treatment lines

Heat exchangers & filling lines

Handling & conveying systems

Rework systems

Screening & storage systems

For processing of:
Chocolate, compound & coatings, creams, chocolate  filling masses, nougat cream, nut spreads and other fat based products.

Non-Food:

Lehmann also supply roll refiners and ball mill refiners to other industries including: paint, ink, soap, cosmetics, chemicals and metal powders.

After 150 years Lehmann is still innovating and has recently launched the new generation of 5-Roll Refiners for chocolate processing.  The new design features 5 frequency drives, forced cooling for the 5th roll and optional cooling for the 4th roll.  The 2-Roll Pre-Refiners have also recently been re-designed.  Lehmann has extensive experience in the development of the horizontal ball mill which has many advantages over vertical ball mills.
For the cocoa industry Lehmann now offers a new generation of continuous roasters and a newly designed cocoa winnower.