Automated Soft Panning

For a figure that illustrates the steps required to complete the whole soft panning process please click here.

Each batch is engrossed, moved to vented storage A, then B, then C. Four engrossing batches are completed and dried before the first batch is returned to Pan D for polishing. The four batches are polished before the pan returns to engrossing four more batches.

Pharmaceutical Panning IDA XP

Dumoulin are one of the World’s most important suppliers of pharmaceutical coating equipment and provide full validation protocol. This range comprise: 5, 15/30, 100, 250, 380, 500 and 1000 kg batch sizes. They can be used for sugar coating, aqueous film coating or film coating with solvents. These pans are also used for coating or film coating on cereals, vegetables or flowers seeds.

Nutraceutical Panning

Dumoulin have merged their pharmaceutical experience with their confectionery experience and now offer large scale pharmaceutical quality fully automatic coating pans for products which include active ingredients.

The Dumoulin Advantage

Dumoulin systems offer many advantage over manual coating systems or even bet coaters.
Some of the advantages are:

• Labor: one supervisor can look after multiple pans
• Utility costs: lower utility costs than manual pans
• Efficiency: shorter batch times
• Space: maximize production per square foot
• Scrap and rework: reduced to an absolute minimum
• Hygiene: no one touches the products
• Quality: highest quality candies produced
• Consistency: the same quality every batch
• Flexibility: switch from product to product each batch

Dumoulin continue to develop the concept and are still market leaders in this field.

Dumoulin have an excellent video presentation showing actual installations with IDA C/V combination chocolate and varnishing systems, IDA-X machines for hard panning as well as automated soft panning.

See video presentation