How Mints are Made

Ingredients used to produce Wrigley's mints are extensively tested to ensure their quality meets the standards of all local and international government food regulations. Once they’re all at the factory, the process begins.

Mixing

All the ingredients are granulated using a mixing and bonding method. This involves blending them to a fine consistency, mixing, compacting then sizing the finished grains.

Moving

The mixed ingredients are then conveyed to the tableting machine. While this sounds straight forward, the conveyors can’t have any bends or turns that might upset the materials, and temperature and moisture must be strictly controlled along the conveyors.

Pressing

The granulated ingredients are channeled into a feeder that fills a die in the rotary tablet press, which compresses the ingredients into a tablet shape. The newly formed mints are then pushed out of the press and collected in a bin, which funnels them to the packaging area.

Packaging

The mints are then carried a short distance on conveyors to packaging machines to be wrapped. A funnel then deposits the pressed mints into tins or packets, with cellophane overwraps to keep the mints fresh inside.