IMA for: Chocolate & Confectionery IMA serves the international Chocolate and Confectionery market with the best platforms and machines available to satisfy the process and packaging industry needs.

State-of-the-art processing and packaging
for all chocolate and confectionery products

IMA offers state-of-the-art processing and packaging machines able to handle gums, candies, coated sweets and bars, from powder handling and granulation, tableting, weighing and counting systems to fill cartons and rigid containers, vertical and horizontal flow wrappers, blister packaging, cartoning, up to wrap-around tray, top loading for display boxes, and end of line solutions.

IMA Chocolate & Confectionery Technologies

Main segments

Main Applications
Processing solutions

Smart coating solutions for confectionery

Flexible coating solutions for sugar-coating and powder-layering processes, ensuring perfect mixing, uniform syrup distribution and fast, energy-saving drying.

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Flexible granulation solutions for gums and candies

Fluid bed granulators and high-shear mixers ensure maximum product yield with minimal cleaning and maintenance. From lab-scale development to full-scale production, IMA solutions handle candies, gums, instant mixes and more, preserving even the most delicate ingredients.

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High-efficiency tableting for candies and chewing gums

IMA’s tableting machines deliver high-efficiency production for confectionery products. Featuring flexible feeding systems and advanced punches, they ensure precision, consistent quality and easy format changeovers for diverse marketing needs.

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Main Applications
Primary packaging solutions

High-speed flow wrapping for candies and gums

Discover IMA high-speed flow wrappers equipped with centrifugal disc feeder for hard and soft candies, jellies, lollipops and coated pellets.

Discover EURO 77 DS 900

Cut & Wrap flow wrapping for products coming in rope

IMA offers cut & wrap units to handle and portion chewing gums, bubble gums, toffees, chewy-candies and all the products coming in rope from extrusion lines.

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Dosing and filling for gums and candies

Medium- to high-speed vertical dosing/counting and filling solutions for various carton sizes, shapes and closures, bottles, jars and tins.

Discover FTC Series

Stick pack wrapping machine for gums and candies

High-speed wrapping machine for single and double-wrap of gum pellets, mints and pressed candies, packaged with on-edge product orientation.

Discover DWM Series

Flow wrapping line for marshmallows, bars and napolitans

Customized solutions with centrifugal disc feeder or aligning systems to orientate products before entering the high-speed pressure-less timing systems and consequently the flow wrapping process.

Discover EURO 88 HSF

Flow wrapping line for snack bars

Flow wrapping line equipped with high-speed precision parallel Pick & Place robots.

Discover EURO 88 PP

Stand-Up Pouch for confectionery products

Forming, filling, and sealing stand-up pouches with reclosable options and recyclable films — combining freshness, sustainability, and shelf appeal.

Discover Doytronic 120

Blister Packaging Machines for Confectionery products

With one of the widest ranges available, IMA’s blister machines are perfectly suited for the confectionery sector. Equipped with cutting-edge feeding technologies, IMA ensures maximum efficiency and flexibility in handling products of any shape, size, or consistency — even sticky or powdery items.

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Main Applications
Secondary and end of line solutions

High-speed overwrapping machines

The FTO513 Series ensure airtight, tamper-evident protection and a premium finish for individual cartons, multipacks, and rigid containers.

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Compact top-loading cartoning machine for tray and display box

FTB TL Series: its modular design allows maximum flexibility, enabling the processing of many different product types and countless configurations.

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End of Line Solutions

From chocolates and candies to bars, chewing gum, and sweet treats, our end of line systems handle every confectionery format—tubes, bags, flowpacks, cartons, and bottles.
We deliver complete packaging readiness, offering any type of packaging from display to shipping and storage.
With advanced cartoning, case packing, palletizing, wrapping, and labelling technologies, we ensure products are protected, efficiently packed, and retail ready.

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Turnkey solutions

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Smart

Feeding & Manipulation

Raptor

Feeding & Manipulation

KONTINUA

Stand-Up Pouch Form Fill and Seal

EKC

Counting/Dosing

A83

Cartoning

A46

Cartoning

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