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Callebaut launches cocoa pilot testing site
18 April 2011: Barry Callebaut, a chocolate supplier, has opened its first cocoa pilot plant in North America.
The scaled down plant, located at its cocoa products factory in Pennsylvania, is targeted at food manufacturers that use semi-finished cocoa products as ingredients. The Eddystone plant will enable the production of cocoa liquor, cocoa powder and cocoa butter from any cocoa bean blend in small batches. It will allow US bakery and food manufacturers to test new products and raw ingredients, prior to producing them on a mass scale.
The new pilot plant, which includes equipment such as a winnower, a nib and cake alkalizer, a roaster, a cocoa liquor grinding line, a cocoa press, and a cocoa powder mill, will allow the supplier to tailor developments to the needs of its US manufacturing customer base.
Callebaut already has a pilot test facility in New Jersey targeted at chocolate producers.
Source: Confectionerynews