SGL Technologies is ‘out-of-the-box’ problem solver
Belgium/ Dutch company offers engineering solutions that address critical food safety, hygiene and efficiency issues with non-traditional thinking.
Even for the most creative chocolatiers, spinach and chocolate aren’t necessarily ingredients that inspire fusion. Often, engineers can find synergies where chocolatiers can’t. But even the most “out-of-the-box” thinkers might be hard-pressed to find inspiration and applicability in thinking about spinach and chocolate.
Not so, counters Lennaert van Dijk, managing director and one of the principals at SGL Technology, which has its head office and production facilities in Breda (The Netherlands) and a sales office in Kalmthout, (Belgium). In looking to design a more flexible, more hygienic, more compact and more efficient line to produce chocolate chips, chunks and shavings, the company’s engineers saw similarities in the way frozen spinach was produced.