Carle Montanari Super Cavemil 1200 chocolate moulding line

CHOCOLATE MOULDING LINE
Manufactured by CARLE & MONTANARI
Model Super Cavemil 1200,
line was producing chocolates with caramel centre and can also produce one shot, solid button with inclusion on top etc.
1200mms wide working width,
NO MOULDS INCLUDED.
With an AASTED One Shot Depositor, Vibration, Cooling Conveyor, then an optional biscuit depositing unit to place small biscuit pieces into chocolate shell in moulds.
optional REISDORF ASM-1200 Wide Target Sprinkler to deposit the small chocolate button/sugar coated chocolates to top of the chocolate button, Year 2019, Serial Number 1495-112.
Through then an AASTED ES1200 Caramel Depositor, year 2002, serial Number 3268-04-001.
Additional Cooling, then De-Moulding.
Line also includes an AASTED AMK-5000 Chocolate Temperer, 5000Kgs capacity.

1. Year of Carle Montanari - ID plate on inside of main electrical panel states 1995
2. Space and height requirement ? The plant dimensions are L59501mm x W3780(this is the widest point of the plant) x H6760mm (This is to the highest section of the plant including hand rails for accessing top of plant). The control panels run along the side of the plant. There is a distance of 3000mm from the side of the plant to the rear of the electrical panels so if you want to include this distance in overall footprint for cable lengths etc. then your overall footprint required would be L59501mm x W6780mm x H6760.
3. Do cooling tunnels have own chillers? Or were they connected to centralized cooling system ? The coolers were connected to central glycol system. There is also an intense chiller on there which again was fed from a plant room using refrigerant.
4. What is the minimum speed it can run at ? We used to run various speeds depending on which product we were manufacturing. 28-30 moulds per minute for most. Speed was reduced to around 25 moulds per minute for smaller products to get a more accurate fill from depositors. When loading moulds we would drop plant speed down to around 12 moulds per minute.

The machines were disconnected in December 23 following last production. There is a very good chance any plc batteries have now gone flat and therefore programmes lost. I do have some of the programmes on a memory stick so it is possible they could be reloaded with the correct software. “

We had one contractor estimate GBP £285,000 for dismantling and loading and another more recently estimate £200,000 for dismantling and loading, but packing costs extra.
The contractors would want to meet with the customer on site to discuss their exact requirements for dismantling/packing to come up with a more exact quote.
To give you an idea of the scale of it they estimate 7 weeks to dismantle it.
These high additional costs are the reason the owners will take so little for the line.

Shipping costs I can’t give, we don’t know number of containers until it is dismantled, and it is clear what is required.

Normally the reply we get is for the buyer to send over a mechanical and an electrical engineer who can be present during dismantling and so they can see how it goes back together.

The line stopped production at the end of 2023. There is no video. Nestle sold the site but abandoned the equipment we are trying to sell. The new owners are not running it; they are a bakery and want to install new lines. The machinery offered is as listed. i.e. just the moulding line
The caramel kitchen has already been sold.
There is no packing machinery available, Nestle took it with them. Anything that was Nestle proprietary information in the software was removed.
There is one 5000kg Aasted chocolate temperer that worked with the line but that is not included in the price.

An ex-Nestle engineer is working for the new owners. I can ask him questions but want to be clear your customer really is interested before I ask him. It would also be better to ask him all questions at one time rather than piecemeal.