IMA for: Chocolate & Confectionery As a leading confectionery machine manufacturer, IMA serves the international Chocolate & Confectionery market with the best platforms and machines available to satisfy the processing 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 wraparound tray, top loading for display boxes, and end-of-line solutions.

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.

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.

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.

Main Applications
Primary packaging solutions

High-speed flow-wrapping for candies and gums

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

Cut & Wrap flow-wrapping for products coming in rope format

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

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.

Stick pack wrapping machine for gums and candies

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

Flow-wrapping line for marshmallows, bars and Napolitains

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

Flow-wrapping line for snack bars

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

Stand-up pouch for confectionery products

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

Blister packaging machines for confectionery products

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

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.

Compact top-loading cartoning machine for tray and display boxes

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

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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GS

Coating

RAPTOR

Feeding & Manipulation

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Feeding & Manipulation

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Counting/Dosing

KONTINUA

Stand-Up Pouch Form Fill and Seal

A46

Cartoning

A83

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