Møn Bolcher boiled its first sweets in Stege on the island of Møn in 1993, and today the company produces boiled sweets, dragées and chocolate from an 8,000 m² production facility in Nykøbing Falster, with exports to several countries. Møn Bolcher has purchased several machines from Chocoma over the years, and three H500P melting tanks now supply the production line with melted chocolate.
When investing in production equipment, our experience is that most technical decision-makers carefully evaluate which machine best solves the specific task at hand and how it fits into the overall line. This applies both when setting up a new production and when expanding an existing one. At Møn Bolcher, our melting tanks stand alongside a tempering machine from an internationally renowned manufacturer of chocolate equipment – the kind of supplier you typically find at the largest producers in the world. The technical management responsible for assembling the line has therefore chosen our H500P for the melting task and a different make for the tempering, a deliberate decision about which machine best solves which task in this line, not a compromise or a budget solution alongside the real thing.
At Chocoma, we manufacture melting tanks, tempering machines, enrobers, and cooling tunnels ourselves, so, in principle, we could have supplied the entire line. But sometimes the customer chooses a more advanced, automated solution for a specific stage of production because the task at that point calls for it, or because the production volume justifies the investment. We fully respect that, and it is part of the industrial reality we operate in. Melting places certain demands on the equipment, tempering places others, and enrobing and cooling each has its own technical challenges; the skilled production manager assembles the line with the machines that best address each stage. The H500P is a workhorse, designed to melt chocolate evenly, hold it at the correct temperature and deliver it onwards in a stable flow, and it is built to run shift after shift without requiring attention.
In a production flow, the melting stage does not take centre stage. It is the tempering and enrobing that get the credit for the finished result. But without a stable supply of correctly melted chocolate, the rest of the line does not function, which is why the melting tanks sit at the centre of the flow. A production line only runs as reliably as its weakest link.
“We have chosen different suppliers for different stages of our production, depending on what the task requires. The supplier’s size is not the deciding factor for us. What matters is whether the machine does the job. The H500P units work as they should, just like the other Chocoma machines we have in place.”
— René Harms, owner, Møn Bolcher
