Danish equipment business Aasted has reaffirm a commitment to delivering its strategic with Netherlands-based confectionery solutions group Tanis, despite its recent takeover, reports Neill Barston.

As our title reported, the two businesses formed a major collaboration at Interpack for candy bars, combining the strengths of both companies to deliver special projects.

However, with news that Aasted had been acquired by the Piovan Group last month, the picture was unclear whether such agreements would be maintained moving forward.

But Aasted moved to confirm that it intended to honour its commitments with the firm’s partnerships, which it asserted would  create one of the industry’s most flexible and integrated production solutions for the bar production market.

As the Danish business added, the collaboration brings together Tanis’ expertise in confectionery cooking technologies with Aasted’s leading chocolate processing and finishing technologies enables customers to benefit from a fully integrated production solution that offers both greater production flexibility and improved sustainability.

Together, the companies believe the future of candy bar manufacturing lies in highly integrated production processes that reduce complexity while giving manufacturers greater flexibility to develop new products and respond quickly to changing consumer demands.

“Our collaboration with Tanis was established because we share a common ambition to offer customers something genuinely unique,” says Piet Hoffmann Tæstensen, CEO of Aasted.

“By combining our technologies, we can provide manufacturers with a more flexible and efficient way of producing candy bars. This strategy remains unchanged, and becoming part of Piovan Group does not alter our commitment to the partnership. We continue exactly as planned.”

Wouter Tanis, Chief Commercial Officer of Tanis, spoke to Confectionery Production at this year’s interpack, and believed that the collaboration would prove of key benefit to both businesses. (See our exclusive video with Wouter Tanis as part of our event review below). 

“Our partnership with Aasted has always been built on a shared vision and complementary technologies. The recent announcement regarding Aasted’s ownership does not change that. We remain fully committed to developing the partnership and supporting our customers with the best possible integrated solutions.”

Since launching the collaboration, the companies have experienced strong interest from confectionery manufacturers seeking complete production solutions that combine cooking, forming, chocolate processing and finishing in one integrated production line.

With the addition of a fully integrated candy bar production line at the Tanis Innovation Center in the Netherlands, customers can experience firsthand how the combined technologies enable the development of next-generation candy bars while enhancing production efficiency, flexibility, and product quality.

All current projects, customer activities and future developments continue as planned.

Together, Tanis and Aasted remain committed to investing in innovation and delivering reliable, sustainable and flexible production solutions for the global confectionery industry.