Exclusive: Cargill delivers Deventer manufacturing expansion meeting chocolate coatings and fillings demands
Cargill's Deventer site is undergoing expansion to meet consumer demand. Pic: Cargill
The Cargill group has revealed a significant uprating of production capacity from its coatings and fillings plant by 60% in Deventer, The Netherlands, to help its European customers meet expanded demand for chocolate supplies, reports Neill Barston.
As the business explained to Confectionery Production, the key site stands as the company’s only one of its kind in Europe, which can provide an innovative solution for customers in navigating what has proved a comparatively volatile market environment in recent years amid supply chain challenges.
According to the company, which is set to play its part as a keynote for our World Confectionery Conference on 12 September in Brussels, Belgium, coatings have focused on delivering distinctive mouthfeel, flavour release and texture, delivering on sensorial experience that is less cocoa-dependent for manufacturers in developing their product ranges. Registration for this year’s event remains open at the following direct link.
In addition, the upgraded facility features a segregated no nuts’ production line for compounds without nuts, which is separate from a line for products containing hazelnut. Both lines have been developed to maximise efficiency, increase production volumes, and offer our customers more flexibility as the facility can also produce specialty requests such as vegan, low in sugar and no palm coatings and fillings.
Work has been continuing on developing capacity at Deventer, amid renewed market upturns, despite wider challenges within the sector, and progress on the key production site for Cargill can be see in this drone video, above. See an upcoming edition of Confectionery Production for more on this story.
World Confectionery Conference presentation
With industry sustainability and innovation once again at the heart of our event in Brussels, it will place core issues relating to manufacturing, supply chains and trends within finished products in the limelight, as well as offering a key opportunity to network directly with peers from across the industry for our fourth annual conference.
For his part, Cargill’s event speaker will be James Ede, who joined the business in 2018, and is responsible for building sustainability partnership with customers across food and bioindustrial categories.
Today, he lives with his wife and family in Brussels, but studied across the UK, in the areas of sustainability and agriculture. His career has principally focused on embedding sustainability within agri systems and brands, through advising farmers, creating value with customers, shaping public policies and building brand value sustainability impacts. For a sneak preview of his presentation, watch our exclusive interview below.
