Cheese, Confectionery and Pastry Cubing

Cheese Cubes, Sticks and Portions

Cheese cubing into cubes and sticks creates new product formats for snacking, foodservice, bags and bulk packs.

SODEVA designs custom production lines for cubes, sticks, thin rectangular slices and regular portions from cheese blocks and, depending on the product, rindless round cheeses.

Products can be delivered in bulk, grouped into sliced blocks sold as complete packs, or conveyed directly to weighing and packaging equipment.

From Product to Packaging

The SODEVA cubing line operates continuously, without interruption to product flow, from the infeed of rectangular blocks or round cheese wheels through to transfer for weighing and packaging.

Every cheese is different: its dimensions, density, volume and actual shape vary from one product to another. After the 3D scan, volumetric reconstruction automatically adapts the cutting process to each cheese, within the defined tolerances, to optimise the number of cubes or sticks that can be produced and maximise product yield.

The process provides optimised cutting of cheese into slices, then into sticks or cubes, including sticky or fragile cheeses, with clean cuts, no crushing and no cutting-related product loss.

This yield optimisation can be a major advantage: it can help prevent hundreds of kilograms of cheese losses per day.

Depending on the format, our machines can produce several tonnes of cheese cubes or sticks per day. The lines can also create mixes of different-coloured cheese cubes or sticks, tailored to trays, to produce consistent assortments ready for packaging.

Cubing of Confectionery and Pastry Products

Cubing and rectangular portioning can also be applied to chocolate, marshmallow, caramel, nougat, fruit jellies, cereal bars and cake portions.

Ultrasonic blades cut and can space the portions, facilitating packaging, trimming, handling or coating.

Consistent Formats and Flexible Production

Cutting can be performed on cardboard supports or paper strips to facilitate handling and packing into boxes.

Electronically controlled blade positioning and production recipes enable cube, stick, bar and portion formats to be adapted quickly, without complex mechanical adjustments.