Abstract: A description is given of apparatus for making confectionery products (1), in particular chewing gum, comprising a cutting station comprising at least two cutting units (10, 20) arranged in succession along the production line and each comprising at least one respective pair of opposing rollers (11a, 11c) and (21a, 21c) provided with knives (30), (40) oriented obliquely with respect to the flow of feeding of a sheet of confectionery material, preferably a rubbery material, in such a way that the opposing rollers of each pair are mirrored one to the other, and with respect to the corresponding rollers of the other pair.

Abstract: A process and device for compacting stacks of cutouts in a packaging machine wherein the stacks arranged in an orderly manner are removed by a grip element supported by a head of a removal and transfer unit. The stack is transferred to a compacting station fixedly mounted in a position above a feeding station of the packaging machine. and is inserted in the compacting station which is equipped with an abutment element having an inlet shaped complementarily to one end of the cutouts. Pusher elements which are rigidly associated to the head and frontally define a profile being shaped complementarily with respect to the end of the cutouts opposite to the one inserted in the compacting station, act on the stack upon advancement of the head for inserting the stack in the inlet of the abutment element, thereby compacting the stack.