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Considering the demand for choco chips from industrial consumers, the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd is planning to increase its production capacity for choco chips during the current fiscal.
Campco, which has a chocolate factory at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district, manufactures various products for retail and industrial consumers.
‘Good demand’
M Suresh Bhandary, Managing Director of Campco, told BusinessLine that the present choco chips line at Puttur chocolate factory is being used to full capacity production of 75 tonnes a month as there is good demand for choco chips from industrial segment. (Choco chips are usually sprinkled on products such as biscuits, ice creams and cakes, etc.)
To cater to the increased demand of around 200 tonnes a month for choco chips, Campco is planning a new production plant with a capacity of 10 tonnes a day. With this, the cooperative will be in a position to produce a total of around 375 tonnes of choco chips a month.
The cooperative has already placed an order with a Turkey-based company, Alpy, for the new plant. Stating that the new plant is being fabricated now, he said it may take another three months to reach the chocolate factory. The target is to commission the plant by January in the current financial year. The new plant will cost around ₹3.5 crore.
Product line
Campco produces moulded and enrobed chocolates, and chocolate eclairs; and industrial products such as cocoa powder, cocoa butter and choco chips.
Campco markets products such as ‘Turbo’, ‘Treat’, and ‘Krust’ under the enrobed chocolate segment.
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