Sugarplex SX Flow receives FoodTec Award 2024
The German Agricultural Society (DLG) has announced the winners of the International FoodTec Awards 2024. The award honours 14 innovation projects, including the Sugarplex SX Flow from Hosokawa Alpine AG with a silver medal. It is the ideal solution for the one-step production of shelf-stable icing sugar.
Icing sugar has a wide range of applications within the confectionery and bakery industry. When granulated sugar (sucrose) is ground with conventional methods, icing sugar tends to clump together again immediately after leaving the mill. “This leads to difficulties with further processing and also when used as decoration for confectionery,” explains Dr Stefan Klettenhammer, Sales Manager at Hosokawa Alpine. As a rule, additives such as starch to prevent agglomeration are required to obtain and store stable icing sugar or systems such as mixing containers that keep the icing sugar in motion. “Complex downstream conditioning processes such as cooling and heating screws are also used,” says Dr Stefan Klettenhammer.
