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£100,000 production line investment
The tortilla discs then go through six heated belts, come out, cool and are packed. Cool Chile Company produce tortillas in 10cm, 15cm and 20cm varieties and they are hand-packed.
Cool Chile invested a £100,000 bank loan to improve its tortilla production line.
“The machine was housed in a unit on its own, but we brought it into the main part of the factory two years ago,” Peck said.
“We invested in some food-grade walls and bought a conveyor belt so that the tortillas could cool better before being packed.”
The firm also invested in a tortilla chip cutter, which allows it to manufacture and pack tortilla chips. When the tortillas come off the belt, they’re stacked into kilogramme piles and then taken to the chipped.
