Creating the treats people love, with the process control you need
Welcome to Bühler’s snack bar solutions – where reliable engineering turns your product ideas into consistently high-quality bars at scale. Whether you produce protein bars, cereal bars, or indulgent snack bars, our end-to-end lines are designed to optimize throughput, reduce product waste, and keep your operation flexible for fast recipe or format changes. From precise mixing and gentle forming to accurate cutting, enrobing, and packaging, every Bühler system is built for hygienic design, easy cleaning, and stable, repeatable performance. The result: safer products, shorter changeover times, and a more efficient line that helps you bring better bars to market faster.
Our solutions shape your mass into perfectly uniform slabs that set the foundation for consistent, high-quality bars. Our forming systems are designed to handle a wide range of recipes, from fragile, inclusion-rich mixes to dense protein masses, using gentle yet controlled forces that preserve structure, texture, and appearance. Intelligent process control ensures stable mass distribution, precise thickness, and clean edges, even at high throughput. With hygienic design, easy access for cleaning, and flexible adjustments for different bar sizes and shapes, you gain a robust, repeatable forming process that reduces waste, shortens changeovers, and keeps your line ready for whatever the market demands next.
Ensure that your bars reach the exact firmness and stability needed for clean, precise cuts at high speed. Our controlled cooling systems gently bring product temperature and texture into the ideal range, preventing smearing, deformation, or sticking – even with chocolate, caramel, or high-protein recipes. Seamless synchronization between cooling and cutting keeps your slabs dimensionally stable and perfectly aligned, while servo-driven cutters deliver tight weight and size tolerances with minimal fines and trim. Designed with hygiene, easy access, and fast changeovers in mind, this combined process step helps you secure consistent product quality, reduce waste, and maintain a highly efficient, predictable line.
You can achieve a premium look and stable quality for every coated bar that leaves your line. Our enrobers deliver uniform coverage with precise control of chocolate or compound viscosity, film thickness, and coating weight, ensuring an attractive finish without excess use of costly ingredients. Integrated decorating options and accurate bottoming let you differentiate your products while maintaining consistent performance. Final cooling tunnels are engineered for gentle, controlled crystallization and setting, so your bars stay dimensionally stable, with clean breaking behavior and a glossy, defect-free surface. With hygienic design, easy cleaning, and recipes stored at the touch of a button, you gain a reliable, repeatable enrobing process that supports both efficiency and brand-defining product quality.
Count on Bühler for proactive support that keeps your operations running smoothly. We deliver a holistic view of asset health and process performance, backed by tailored Service Agreements that provide predictable maintenance, on-demand expert assistance, and transparent KPIs—all aligned to your specific line. When paired with RemoteCare, we spot issues before they escalate, minimize unplanned downtime, and lower your total cost of ownership. The result is greater peace of mind, higher machine availability, and a partner relentlessly focused on your plant’s efficiency.
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13105 12th Avenue North
Plymouth, MN 55441
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