Industrial production of chocolate by 3D printing will be launched in Switzerland

Zurich-based Barry Callebaut is launching mass production of chocolate by 3D printing for corporate customers. This is reported by Bloomberg. Barry Callebaut is one of the largest chocolate producers in the world. For several years the company experimented with 3D printers for the production of complex chocolate products, but such production was maintained only in small volumes. On February 14, the company said that they had mastered the technology of mass production of chocolate by 3D printing and were ready to launch it in the near future. Now it is not the manufacture of piece products, as in the past. We can now launch mass production, Barry Callebaut's head of innovation, Pablo Perversi, said. Barry Callebaut's first customer will be Van der Valk, a chain of hotels in the Netherlands. The company further plans to enter into similar agreements for the production of branded chocolate with other corporate customers. Barry Callebaut noted that in the future 3D printers for chocolate manufacture may appear in the consumer market, becoming as common a type of household appliances as coffee makers. As previously reported by the news agency, in November 2019 scientists from Rensseler Polytechnic Institute in the USA presented the technology of creation of artificial skin by 3D printing.