Processing equipment for snack manufacturing

Versatile processing solutions for snack manufacturing

The quick and easy convenience of snacks has made the category enormously popular around the world. The challenge is to keep at the leading edge of ever-changing consumer preference with forms and flavors that will capture attention and market share.

Efficient, automated extrusion technology from Coperion is used to manufacture a vast array of sweet and savory snacks, including extruded and baked snacks:

• Nutritional bars (Energy, Protein)
• Baked bars & granola bars
• Cereal bars
• Filled snacks & shaped snacks
• Baked snacks
• Fried snacks
• Nuts & seeds processing
• Popcorn

Decades of experience in extruded snacks

Coperion offers end-to-end solutions for extruded snacks with production lines that are both flexible, modular and highly automated, making it easy to change recipe. Our lines integrate dry ingredient weighing, powder mixing, feed rate for flavoring and other additives, cooking time and run speed, along with extrusion dies, all without alterations to the basic production process or technology.

Example of extruded from Coperion lines:

• Shapes such as balls, curls, puffs and rings
• Wafers/chips in a variety of sizes
• Sticks
• Straws
• Pillows
• Croutons

Finding the perfect product to help you stand out

We have long experience in consumer markets around the world, which gives us insight into local tastes and expectations and what it takes to meet them. We can work with you, leveraging our knowledge and test kitchens to optimize your product so that it strikes the correct balance of form, texture and flavor to appeal to your customers.

This collaboration extends to the process and manufacturing technology itself. Our process solutions are focused on your desired end result. We have extensive custom manufacturing capabilities and a hands-on approach to integration that makes the best use of our engineering expertise.

Learn more about our snack product applications

Crunchy granola bars