Inkjet & Digital Printing

Deltavorm produces plaster stamps for candy with a Roland milling machine

Friday 19. November 2010 - The Dutch company Deltavorm makes about 1.000 models a year for wine gums, liquorice and other sweets. They use a Roland MDX-540 for the production of proofs for candy stamps.

Deltavorm was founded in 1980 in the Dutch city Scharendijke. Throughout the years, the company built up an archive of 30.000 different shapes for sweets. The six staff members take care of the design and production of the plaster and aluminium models. The majority of the production is exported, but the company also has well-known customers in The Netherlands and Belgium. Mentos, Fruitella, Venco and Red Band are examples of the more than 100 candy factories that rely on Deltavorm’s craftsmanship.

Deltavorm works manually as well as digitally. Extremely complex shapes are cut manually, but most tasks are computer-controlled. The digital technology speeds up the production process: making new models, rescaling existing shapes, adding texts and making other changes can now occur many times faster.

The company uses a Roland MDX-540 milling machine. Nils Dogger explains: “We are very satisfied with our Roland machine. It works fast and accurately. And you don’t need to be an Einstein to work smoothly with the machine. We used to do everything manually, which was hard work. Now we can do a lot mechanically. For instance, we can adapt existing shapes very easily. If we don’t have the model’s digital data, we scan it three dimensionally and edit the generated data with our software. Then, we send the digital data to our MDX-540. The machine takes care of the rest.”

The process results in shapes that are delivered to candy factories. These firms use the plaster or aluminium models in their moulding process.