The bakery complex “Franzeluta” SA, in which the state owns a 52% holding, has launched a modernized bread production line. Representatives of the company say the new line will bring increased quality and profit. The equipment has a capacity of 28 tonnes of bread in 24 hours. The bread will include iodised salt and flower fortified with iron and folic acid, while the artificial additives will be excluded. The bread will be more porous, while the crust will be thinner, IPN reports.
The company took out a loan from a national bank in order to modernize the line presented on March 31, for two lines that were launched earlier and for another three lines that will be assembled in the near future. The new equipment was brought from Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Germany.
“Currently, we make 30 types of bread and will soon make another five types. We will continuously make changes and I think it is the case. “Franzeluta” has worked for 67 years, but not many investments were made in it,” the company’s director general Victor Cojocaru said in the launch.
The event was attended by the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vlad Filat, who initiated the plan for renovating and modernizing the bread making industry when he was Prime Minister. “The fact that the company implemented this investment plan is very important. Thus, “Franzeluta” became more competitive, the people have jobs, while we, the consumers, have products of a high quality,” he stated.
The modernized line will not produce social bread as the costs of equipment and production are too high, said Olga Niculica, head of the company’s central laboratory. “The social bread continues to be made by the old lines, according to the same recipe,” she stated, adding that new products with natural additives will be made by the new line.
By implementing new technology, “Franzeluta” plans to increase its competiveness on the market and the quality of its products.
