If your machines are not producing quality chocolate, you’re not benefiting from maximum efficiency, yield and profitability. This is the simple truth faced by chocolate manufacturers that suffer from low margins.

Ultimately, your profitability comes down to your machine throughput: How much quality chocolate comes through your machines?

Chocolate manufacturers that rely on imperfect roll grinding processes will experience many production issues that diminish the quality of their product and spoil their profits. Learn more about the mistakes you may be making that are affecting your profitability. 

Roll Defects Are Resulting In Wasted Product

When your chocolate runs through a machine with imperfect rolls and produces a poor-quality product, that product goes to waste. What’s more, you’re spending money on energy costs to run a machine that’s not getting the most out of your raw materials.

Chocolate manufacturers that don’t use precision roll grinding services often see striping, which is detrimental to your production. Striping and scoring (also known as heat bands) are roll surface issues that diminish the quality of your product during the chocolate manufacturing process. 

You may not understand how damaging these defects are – until they eat into your bottom line because the chocolate you’re producing isn’t meeting quality standards. While you may pay a little more for precision grinding services, you’re going to see much greater profit as you minimize wasted
product and produce a higher-quality chocolate.

Your Chocolate Is Not Meeting Its Grade

When your product leaves the refinery after the chocolate manufacturing process, it must be fine enough to make grade. Whether you are selling chocolate to consumers or other companies, the quality of your product is essential to your profitability.

Let’s say, for instance, that a client company purchasing your chocolate specifies the size of its product’s particle mass at 20 microns. Your product must meet those specifications – or the client is not going to make the purchase.

The key to meeting grade is ensuring a consistent roll surface from end to end. This is one of the most important factors in producing a fine chocolate product. If there are uneven spaces between your rolls, pressure is not applied consistently across the chocolate product during refinement, which affects how finely it’s ground. Chocolate that does not receive proper, even pressure isn’t going to meet that 20-micron specification.

By ensuring consistent pressure between rolls through precision grinding services, you’re able to achieve throughput numbers at the right grade – and do so more efficiently. 

Breakdowns Are Causing Unscheduled Downtime

Your machine produces a certain amount of product per hour, and every hour you lose as a result of unscheduled downtime costs you tens of thousands of dollars. 

The best course of action? Schedule time to inspect your machines so they continue running as smoothly as possible.

You should have an experienced precision grinding technician come to your manufacturing location for scheduled inspection and roll maintenance. Otherwise, you’re prone to experiencing roll failures, such as overheating or excessive movement within the machine, which incurs unexpected downtime.

If you want to protect your profitability as a chocolate manufacturer, you must maximize the throughput of your machines with minimal time and waste. If your profits are suffering, take a closer look at what you’re doing to ensure the quality of your rolls.

The right precision grinding company helps you identify problems with your rolls, address poor performance and prevent further impediments to reaching your potential profitability.