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SAPAL (Société Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques Lausanne) was a Swiss company founded in August 1906 by Jean-Jaques Kohler. [1] Backed by a group of investors, this chocolate maker from Lausanne, Switzerland, [2] had acquired the US patent for the "folding box" die-fold system, designed by Richard Berger, a German engineer, which enabled an envelope style of wrap around small chocolate ...
An enrobing machine in operation. An enrober is a machine used in the confectionery industry to coat a food item with a coating medium, typically chocolate. Foods that are coated by enrobers include nuts, ice cream, toffee, chocolate bars, biscuits and cookies. Enrobing with chocolate extends a confection's shelf life. [1]
A modern rotary conche can process 3 to 10 tonnes of chocolate in less than 12 hours. Modern conches have cooled jacketed vessels containing long mixer shafts with radial arms that press the chocolate against vessel sides. A single machine can carry out all the steps of grinding, mixing, and conching required for small batches of chocolate.
This allowed him to produce 76 kilos of chocolate in twelve hours, a quantity which typically required 7 workers at the time. [2] In 1826, the melanger was also adopted (and perhaps further developed) by Philippe Suchard in his chocolate factory in Neuchâtel. [3] [4] Nowadays melangers tend to be used by small chocolate manufacturers only. [5]
A confectioner is a person who makes candy or chocolate. [1] A chocolatier is a person who prepares confectionery from chocolate, and is distinct from a chocolate maker, who creates chocolate from cacao beans and other ingredients. Cotton candy is a form of spun sugar often prepared using a cotton candy machine.
Scharffen Berger is an American chocolate manufacturing company, which was a subsidiary of The Hershey Company after it had been acquired in 2005. [2] Scharffen Berger was established as an independent Berkeley, California-based chocolate maker in 1996 by sparkling wine maker John Scharffenberger and physician Robert Steinberg.
The candies distributed in Canada are marketed as Rockets, to avoid confusion with Smarties, [2] [6] a chocolate candy produced by Nestlé which holds the trademark in Canada. [7] The New Jersey factory produces approximately 1 billion rolls of Smarties annually, [8] and in total the company produces over 2.5 billion in a year. [6] [9] [10]
A snack food vending machine made in 1952 Gashapon vending machines Newspaper vending machines in Munich, Germany An automobile parking ticket machine in the Czech Republic. A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or ...