ECLAIR PLANT

Introduction:

¨|clair is a special type of candy having filling of chocolate paste.

Manufacturing Process:

¨|clair manufacturing is a simple process. First raw materials are mixed with the help of Batch homogenizer. The mixed mass is cooked by vacuum batch cooker or continuous vacuum cooker. The cooked mass is collected on water circulating cooling table for cooling. At this stage colour, flavour and other ingredients are added to the batch. The mass is then passed through rotary Kneading machine to ensure uniform distribution of ingredients in a hygienic way. Once candy mass is cooled and mixed properly it is then transferred to the Batch former attached to a centre filler machine so that the chocolate paste prepared separately beforehand, gets filled in the centre portion of the candy mass. The thick uniform centre filled mass produced is fed into the rope sizer to form a uniform rope of the required size. This rope is then fed into the candy forming machines where candies are formed in required shape, size and weight. The formed Candies are discharged on the cooling conveyor which cools them so that they may be wrapped and packed further. The formed ¨|clairs after cooling are packed by packing machine like pillow pack, single twist or double twist machine.

Machinery used:
a) Processing Machines:

1. LC-01: Batch Homogenizer
2. LC-21: Vacuum batch cooker
3. LC-23 : Continuous Vacuum cooker
4. LC-51: Cooling Plate
5. LC-61: Rotary Kneading machine
6. LC-62: Vertical Pulling machine
7. LC-63: Horizontal Pulling machine
8. LC-101: Batch former
9. LC-102: Rope Sizer
10. LC-110: Center Filler
11. LC-111 : Rost-o-plast forming machine
12. LC-113 : Uni-past forming machine
13. LC-115 : Chain type forming machine
14. LC-202: Three way cooling conveyor

b) Packaging machines:

1. LX-261: Automatic Pillow packing machine for ¨|clairs.
2. LX-266: Automatic Single twist wrapping machine for ¨|clairs.
3. LX-268: Automatic Double twist wrapping machine for ¨|clairs.
4. LX-270: Roll Wrap packing machine for ¨|clairs.
5. LX-54: Automatic Pouch packing machine with 4 Head linear weigher for packing of ¨|clairs in pouches.
6. LX-55: Automatic Pouch packing machine with 10 Head combinational Multi head weigher for packing ¨|clairs in pouches.
7. LX-606: Semi Automatic filling machine with single head weigher to fill ¨|clairs in pouches.
8. LX-04: Automatic Pouch packing machine with vibratory filler to pack ¨|clairs in pouches.
9. LX-652: Automatic Band sealing machine with conveyor to seal pouch after filling ¨|clairs.

Available Plant Capacity:

1. ¨|clair plant with 1 ton per 8 hour shift capacity
2. ¨|clair plant with 2 ton per 8 hour shift capacity
3. ¨|clair plant with 5 ton per 8 hour shift capacity