Top 10 Confectionery Packaging Suppliers in Germany

The top confectionery packaging suppliers in Germany are Theegarten-Pactec, LoeschPack, Gerhard Schubert, Syntegon, ROVEMA, Hastamat, Rasch Technologies, Kremers Verpackungsmaschinen, SN Maschinenbau and HDG Verpackungsmaschinen. Together, they cover high-speed candy wrapping, chocolate bars and tablets, robotic cartoning, flow wrapping, weighing, vertical bagging and horizontal pouch packaging.

Germany has particular depth in this field. German confectionery machinery companies generate about €650 million in annual industry turnover and account for almost 30% of global confectionery machinery trade, according to VDMA. At the same time, retailer-specific formats, private-label production and packaging-material changes are putting more emphasis on flexibility and total line efficiency, not simply maximum machine speed.

Top confectionery packaging suppliers in Germany

Schubert’s current company site states €450 million turnover for the Schubert Group; it should not be read as standalone Gerhard Schubert GmbH revenue.

The ranking considers direct confectionery application evidence, packaging specialisation, technology breadth, operating scale and international support. It is not a ranking by revenue. A specialist lower in the list may be the stronger procurement choice for a particular product.

Why Germany matters for confectionery packaging

Germany’s wider food-processing and packaging machinery industry reached a record production value of almost €17 billion in 2025, up 4.9%. Packaging machinery alone accounted for nearly €9 billion after particularly strong growth.

Confectionery is an important specialist segment within that machinery base.

VDMA’s confectionery machinery division represents around 40 companies covering processing and packaging for chocolate, sugar confectionery, bars, wafers, bakery products and snacks. It puts sector turnover at about €650 million and Germany’s share of global confectionery machinery trade at almost 30%.

For supermarket and private-label suppliers, the depth of the German machinery base matters because packaging requirements increasingly cross several stages: individual wrapping, bagging, multipacking, retail cartons and distribution cases.

1. Theegarten-Pactec

Headquarters: Dresden
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed
Core operations: High-speed confectionery wrapping and cartoning
Best suited to: Hard candies, jellies, chocolates and high-volume individual wrapping

Theegarten-Pactec takes first place because confectionery packaging sits at the centre of its engineering business.

Its machinery covers hard candies, jellies, toffees, chocolate products and other preformed confectionery across twist, fold and flow-pack formats. It also supplies feeding, buffering and secondary packaging systems.

The clearest evidence of its high-speed position is the EK4, which reaches up to 2,300 individually wrapped products per minute in double twist. Applications include hard candy, éclairs, toffees and deposited chocolate products.

But speed alone does not explain the ranking.

The company’s MCH platform handles products including jellies, chocolate balls and eggs in several wrapping styles at up to 1,200 pieces per minute. The FPH5 adds high-speed flow packing, while combined systems can connect primary wrapping to multipack production.

Theegarten-Pactec also offers a high-speed cartoning system for already wrapped products, giving it relevance beyond the individual wrapper.

For supermarket confectionery manufacturers, that breadth matters when very high volumes must move from individual wrapping into multipacks or display cartons without creating a downstream bottleneck.

The company states that several machines can process modern films and paper-based packaging materials. For procurement teams, those are machine-capability claims; the exact material still needs to be validated at the required production speed.

Why Theegarten-Pactec makes the Top 10: Few German suppliers combine such high individual-piece speeds with direct confectionery expertise across feeding, primary wrapping and downstream packaging.

2. LoeschPack

Founded: 1919
Headquarters: Altendorf, Bavaria
Parent: Piepenbrock Group
Revenue: Not separately disclosed
Best suited to: Chocolate tablets, bars, chewing gum and confectionery

LoeschPack has more than a century of packaging history, but its position here rests on current chocolate machinery rather than heritage.

The company specialises in packaging systems for confectionery, with particular strength in chocolate tablets and bars, chewing gum and related products. Its own current technical literature identifies confectionery packaging as a core area and reports an export ratio of roughly 90%.

A major 2026 development is the LTS-DUO, unveiled at interpack in May. It is a two-stage high-performance fold-wrapping machine developed specifically for chocolate bars.

That builds on LoeschPack’s established chocolate-tablet technology, where wrapping and cartoning can be connected into an integrated process.

For private-label production, the important point is format handling rather than the age of the company. Chocolate suppliers serving several supermarket customers can face changes in bar size, wrapping material, carton design and multipack configuration.

LoeschPack’s focused chocolate expertise gives it a strong position where the primary product is a tablet, bar or chewing-gum format rather than loose confectionery.

The company is part of the Piepenbrock Group. Parent-company financial or workforce figures should therefore not be presented as standalone LoeschPack figures.

Why LoeschPack makes the Top 10: Its specialist position in chocolate-tablet and bar wrapping, backed by current 2026 machinery development, makes it one of Germany’s clearest confectionery packaging specialists.

3. Gerhard Schubert

Founded: 1966
Headquarters: Crailsheim
Group turnover: €450 million, current company figure
Group employees: Around 1,900
Best suited to: Robotic confectionery packing, cartons and assortments

Schubert approaches confectionery packaging from automation and robotics rather than conventional twist wrapping.

Its modular TLM packaging architecture is used across confectionery, food and other consumer-goods sectors. The company combines robotic product handling with top-loading, cartoning, flow wrapping and integrated packaging projects.

Schubert’s confectionery credentials include projects for major manufacturers, while its wider customer base includes companies such as Ferrero, Nestlé and Mondelēz.

This makes the company particularly relevant when the packaging challenge involves assortments, delicate product handling or retail cartons.

Pralines, for example, may need to be identified, orientated and placed into defined carton positions without visible damage. Seasonal and premium assortments can make this more complicated because product mixes and carton layouts change.

That is commercially important for supermarkets. Premium private-label confectionery, gift boxes and seasonal ranges often depend on secondary packaging for much of their shelf presentation.

Schubert’s current careers information states €450 million in turnover for the Schubert Group and 1,900 employees worldwide. These are group figures, not standalone revenue for Gerhard Schubert GmbH.

Why Schubert makes the Top 10: It adds high-level robotics and flexible secondary packaging to a market that would otherwise be dominated by conventional wrappers and baggers.

4. Syntegon

Headquarters: Stuttgart
Major German operations: Including Waiblingen
2025 revenue: €1.75 billion
2025 employees: Around 7,300
Best suited to: Integrated chocolate, bar and high-speed packaging projects

Syntegon is the largest business in this ranking by disclosed revenue, but company size is not why it is included.

Its food portfolio contains direct packaging technology for chocolate and bars, combining product distribution, flow wrapping, cartoning and downstream automation.

This is particularly relevant to manufacturers producing chocolate bars, cereal bars, nutrition products and other regularly shaped confectionery at industrial scale.

Syntegon also has one of the largest international service footprints in the group. That matters to multinational FMCG companies operating similar lines in several countries, where machinery standardisation and lifecycle support can influence procurement.

The latest financial information is current: Syntegon reported €1.75 billion of revenue in 2025, up 10%, with order intake of €1.86 billion. The company employs around 7,300 people at 49 locations in more than 20 countries.

Its 2025 sustainability reporting gives a more precise employee figure of 7,344 at year-end.

For private-label manufacturers, the attraction is less about corporate scale than integration. Product distribution, wrapping and downstream packaging need to remain synchronised when formats or recipes change.

Why Syntegon makes the Top 10: It combines direct chocolate and bar packaging technology with the scale and service network required for complex international manufacturing operations.

5. ROVEMA

Founded: 1957
Headquarters: Fernwald, Hesse
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed
Core operations: Vertical form-fill-seal packaging
Best suited to: Candies, gummies and other bagged confectionery

ROVEMA gives the ranking a different type of packaging expertise.

Chocolate bars and individual sweets often receive most of the attention, but supermarkets sell huge volumes of confectionery in bags. Gummies, hard candies, wrapped sweets, chocolate pieces and mixed products all require accurate dosing followed by fast flexible packaging.

ROVEMA addresses that market directly.

Its BVC 250 Candy was developed specifically for confectionery and snacks. The vertical form-fill-seal machine reaches nominal output of up to 300 bags per minute and can produce several bag styles, including pillow bags, gusseted bags and stand-up formats.

ROVEMA also offers the BVC 165 TwinTube for high-speed confectionery and snack applications, with stated output reaching 500 bags per minute depending on the application.

The BVC 250 Candy can process mono-material, multilayer, paper and paper-composite packaging structures, according to ROVEMA. That establishes technical compatibility options, not proof that one material is environmentally superior or will run identically in every application.

For private label, bagging is especially relevant. Retailers can differentiate confectionery through bag weight, shape, graphics and sharing formats without fundamentally changing the sweet inside.

Why ROVEMA makes the Top 10: Its dedicated high-speed confectionery VFFS technology makes it one of Germany’s strongest suppliers for retail bags rather than individual wraps.

6. Hastamat

Founded: 1953
Headquarters: Lahnau, Hesse
Employees: Around 100
Revenue: Not separately disclosed
Best suited to: Feeding, weighing and flexible confectionery packaging

Hastamat is a useful counterweight to the larger automation groups because its strength lies in the processes around weighing and product movement.

Its confectionery systems cover feeding, distribution, buffering and multihead weighing. The company says its CP-series combination weighers can perform up to 240 weighing cycles per minute, depending on application.

That is important for loose confectionery.

The wrapper or bagger can only maintain its rated speed if the correct amount of product arrives consistently. Gummies, wrapped candies and irregular sweets create different handling problems from uniform chocolate bars.

Hastamat’s current corporate literature states that the business was founded in Lahnau-Waldgirmes in 1953, employs around 100 people, and exports roughly 80% of its output.

The company and LoeschPack are both part of the wider Piepenbrock structure, but they should remain separate in this ranking because their machinery roles differ materially: LoeschPack is particularly strong in chocolate and gum wrapping, while Hastamat adds weighing, feeding and flexible packaging expertise.

For supermarket suppliers, accurate weighing has a direct margin impact. Overfilling thousands of retail bags gives product away; underfilling creates compliance problems.

Why Hastamat makes the Top 10: It adds specialist dosing, weighing and feeding capability that is critical to high-volume bagged confectionery production.

7. Rasch Technologies

Founded: 1950
Headquarters: Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia
Employees: Around 40
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed
Best suited to: Chocolate eggs, hollow figures and speciality confectionery

Rasch is smaller than the groups above it, but its specialist knowledge gives it a clear reason to be here.

The company has been developing confectionery machinery since 1950 and began producing wrapping machines in 1952. Today it focuses heavily on customised packaging systems for hollow and speciality chocolate products.

Its portfolio includes machines for eggs, balls, hollow figures and flat-bottom chocolate products.

The RG platform, for example, can handle products including eggs, balls and hollow articles in several wrapping styles. Other machines are dedicated to chocolate eggs, lollipops and moulded chocolate pieces.

That is an important niche.

A seasonal chocolate rabbit or egg cannot simply be treated like a rectangular bar. Shape, fragility and decorative foil presentation create a different engineering problem.

This gives Rasch particular relevance to Easter, Christmas and premium confectionery—categories where supermarkets depend heavily on seasonal ranges and where private-label presentation can be a significant differentiator.

Rasch’s current company information states around 40 employees and apprentices at its Hürth operation.

Why Rasch makes the Top 10: It brings genuine specialist expertise in hollow and irregular chocolate products that the larger general packaging groups do not replicate in the same way.

8. Kremers Verpackungsmaschinen

Headquarters: Kempen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed
Core operations: Premade bags, clipping, dosing and filling
Best suited to: Marshmallows, wine gums and fragile confectionery

Kremers earns its position through application evidence rather than corporate size.

Its confectionery portfolio addresses sweets with awkward handling characteristics, including marshmallows and wine gums. The company specifically identifies adhesion, dust, low product weight and high volume as factors that affect the choice of dosing and packaging system.

That is a commercially useful distinction.

Sticky gummies or lightweight marshmallows cannot always be treated like hard candy. Feeding and dosing need to reflect the product’s physical behaviour before the pack is sealed.

Kremers offers premade-bag equipment through its Zippack series as well as clipping technology for sensitive products.

Its Clipper 60KM-B is used for fragile products including confectionery, chocolate figures and other delicate foods, with machine design intended to minimise unnecessary drop heights during handling.

For smaller and medium-sized private-label manufacturers, this type of flexibility can be more relevant than purchasing a very high-speed line designed around one product.

Why Kremers makes the Top 10: It provides direct German packaging expertise for difficult loose and fragile confectionery applications, particularly where premade bags or careful handling are required.

9. SN Maschinenbau

Founded: 2002
Headquarters: Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia
Employees: Around 300
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed
Best suited to: Stand-up and zipper pouches for confectionery

SN Maschinenbau strengthens the ranking by adding dedicated horizontal form-fill-seal pouch technology.

Its confectionery portfolio explicitly covers snacks and sweets, with horizontal machines producing retail pouches in different sizes and formats.

The FBM 22 duplex system reaches a stated realistic output of up to 140 pouches per minute, depending on product, filling behaviour and pouch dimensions. Other SN systems address smaller production requirements at lower speeds.

This matters because pouch packaging serves a different supermarket proposition from a conventional pillow bag.

Stand-up and resealable formats can be used for sharing packs, premium sweets and products intended to remain open across several consumption occasions.

SN’s history also gives the company more depth than its 2002 foundation date suggests. Its pouch-packaging technology traces through earlier German machinery businesses, while the present company has expanded to around 300 specialists at two locations in Wipperfürth.

For private-label confectionery, HFFS pouches can provide greater differentiation in shape and closure than conventional high-speed VFFS bags.

Why SN Maschinenbau makes the Top 10: It has explicit confectionery application evidence and gives German buyers a strong HFFS option for stand-up and other retail pouch formats.

10. HDG Verpackungsmaschinen

Headquarters: Lindlar, North Rhine-Westphalia
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed
Core operations: Horizontal form-fill-seal packaging
Best suited to: Candy and confectionery pouches

HDG takes the final position after a stricter technical audit.

The reason for inclusion is not simply that it manufactures food-packaging equipment. Its own RB-400 technical documentation lists candy and confectionery among the typical dry-product applications for its high-speed HFFS packaging line.

The RB-400 can produce three-side-seal, four-side-seal, stand-up and contoured pouches, with reclosure options including zippers and other closure systems.

Depending on the machine configuration, HDG states output ranging up to 400 pouches per minute.

This puts the company into a different competitive position from ROVEMA. ROVEMA’s strongest confectionery evidence is around vertical bagging; HDG gives manufacturers another horizontal pouch route.

It also creates some overlap with SN Maschinenbau, but that is justified. Both are German HFFS specialists with direct confectionery evidence, while their machine platforms and project requirements give procurement teams more than one credible domestic supplier to evaluate.

Why HDG makes the Top 10: Its documented high-speed HFFS technology explicitly covers candy and confectionery and supports stand-up and reclosable retail pouch formats.

Which German supplier fits each confectionery application?

The strongest supplier depends on what needs to be packed.

For high-speed hard candy and individual sweets: Theegarten-Pactec has the clearest specialist position, with the EK4 reaching up to 2,300 pieces per minute.

For chocolate bars and tablets: LoeschPack is particularly specialised, while Syntegon brings broader integrated line capability.

For robotic cartons, assortments and secondary packaging: Schubert is the clearest specialist in the ranking.

For vertical retail bags: ROVEMA offers dedicated high-speed confectionery machinery.

For weighing and feeding loose sweets: Hastamat brings specialist multihead weighing and product-handling capability.

For hollow chocolate figures and seasonal products: Rasch is the most specialised supplier.

For fragile sweets and premade bags: Kremers covers applications including marshmallows and wine gums.

For HFFS stand-up and reclosable pouches: SN Maschinenbau and HDG provide two German alternatives.

This application-based view is more useful to procurement teams than treating all ten companies as interchangeable.

Supermarkets and private label are changing line requirements

Confectionery packaging decisions increasingly reflect what happens at retail.

A contract manufacturer may produce similar sweets for several supermarket customers but face different requirements for unit count, bag weight, wrapping material, pouch style, retail carton or shelf-ready case.

That changes the economics of packaging machinery.

Maximum speed remains important for mainstream confectionery, but a machine that takes too long to change between formats can become expensive when production runs are shorter.

Private label also operates at several price tiers. High-volume value sweets need tight control over product giveaway and packaging costs. Premium ranges can require more complex cartons, pouches, decorative wraps or seasonal presentation.

Germany’s supplier base reflects both ends of that market.

Theegarten-Pactec and ROVEMA provide very high throughput for individual sweets and bags. Schubert addresses flexible robotic packing. Rasch handles unusual chocolate shapes. SN and HDG provide pouch options that can support more differentiated retail presentation.

For supermarket suppliers, speed, flexibility and pack cost increasingly need to be evaluated together.

Packaging materials are becoming a machinery issue

Switching packaging material is not simply a purchasing decision.

Paper-based structures, recyclable mono-material films and other alternatives can behave differently from conventional laminates during feeding, folding and sealing.

Theegarten-Pactec states that the EK4 can process modern films and paper-based materials, while its FPH5 is designed to process recyclable mono films and paper-based packaging materials.

ROVEMA similarly states that the BVC 250 Candy can work with mono-material, multilayer, paper and paper-composite structures.

These are useful machine specifications, but they should not be turned into broad environmental claims.

For procurement teams, the practical test is whether the exact substrate can run at the required output while maintaining seal quality, shelf-life protection and acceptable waste.

That becomes particularly important for chocolate, where product sensitivity and barrier requirements can limit packaging choices.

Germany’s engineering base remains a competitive advantage

The wider machinery numbers help explain why so many specialist companies appear on this list.

German food-processing and packaging machinery production reached almost €17 billion in 2025, while packaging machinery output approached €9 billion. German exports of food-processing and packaging machinery also reached around €11 billion.

The confectionery segment is smaller but highly export-oriented. VDMA puts Germany’s share of global confectionery machinery trade at almost 30%.

The geographical spread is also notable.

Dresden provides Theegarten-Pactec. Bavaria is home to LoeschPack. Schubert is based in Baden-Württemberg. ROVEMA and Hastamat operate in Hesse, while Rasch, Kremers, SN and HDG form a significant cluster in North Rhine-Westphalia.

For international confectionery manufacturers, the advantage is access to different specialist technologies rather than one uniform German machine-building model.

What happens next?

German packaging machinery entered 2026 from a position of record production but with the same pressures affecting much of European manufacturing: cost control, uncertain investment cycles and changing customer requirements.

VDMA expects moderate growth of around 3% for German food-processing and packaging machinery in 2026 after the strong 2025 result.

For confectionery packaging, investment decisions are likely to become more demanding rather than simply larger.

Manufacturers need to assess output, changeover time, product damage, labour requirements, packaging-material compatibility, energy use and technical support across the life of the line.

Supermarket and private-label contracts add another variable because one production line may need to serve several retail specifications.

That favours different suppliers for different jobs. Theegarten-Pactec and LoeschPack bring deep primary-wrapping expertise. Schubert and Syntegon address larger automation projects. ROVEMA and Hastamat cover high-volume bagging and weighing. Rasch handles speciality chocolate, while Kremers, SN and HDG add flexible solutions for fragile products and retail pouches.

For buyers comparing confectionery packaging suppliers in Germany, the strongest shortlist should therefore start with the product, pack format, expected changeover frequency and required output—not company size alone.

Editor’s Note

This ranking was developed through a research-first verification process focused on companies headquartered or operating as German machinery manufacturers with direct, identifiable confectionery packaging capability.

The final list deliberately excludes major German confectionery-processing companies where the available evidence is primarily for cooking, forming, depositing, enrobing or other production equipment rather than packaging. This avoids mixing confectionery production machinery with the packaging category.

Companies were assessed on direct confectionery application evidence, technical specialisation, packaging breadth, operating scale, international support and relevance to current retail production.

Financial figures are included only where the reporting entity is clear. Syntegon’s €1.75 billion figure is fiscal 2025 group revenue. Schubert’s €450 million figure is identified as Schubert Group turnover rather than standalone Gerhard Schubert GmbH revenue. Revenue has not been estimated for privately held suppliers where dependable current figures were not established.

Material and sustainability statements have also been treated carefully. Where manufacturers state that machines can process paper, mono-material films or other substrates, this is described as technical compatibility rather than independent proof of environmental performance.

The ranking is editorial and is not based on sponsorship. A higher position does not mean a supplier is automatically the best choice for every confectionery packaging project.