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Roasting system

LAB Tornado

Our cutting-edge LAB Tornado cocoa nibs and malt roasting system rolls roasting, sterilization and taste control into one powerful machine. The lab size is perfect for recipe development, allowing you to explore new products and unleash your creativity.

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Key benefits

Food safety is key
Easily accessible and containing no gaps or spaces for potential microbiological activity, our LAB Tornado is easy to clean and ensures food safety.
Experiment with fewer risks
Try out recipes more frequently and enhance your innovative capabilities with fewer risks. Operating with conductive and convective heat transfer and the option to inject solutions or air allows for maximum flexibility for flavor treatment.
Reduce and save
In addition to fast set-up times and the ability to perform trials without shutting down the production line, our LAB Tornado helps you to reduce raw material waste by enabling small batch trials.

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Conductive and convective roasting

Tight control of color and flavor

The precise adjustment of your recipes is enabled by the special combination of conductive and convective roasting, which greatly enhances the specific color and flavor characteristics of a wide range of cocoa and malt.

Injection of solutions

High flexibility in recipe development

Our LAB Tornado allows you to develop a wide range of recipes. You can inject air to fluidize the product to improve its mixability, or inject a solution to prolong the roasting process to develop flavors.

New performance drum

Boosting flavor characteristics

As well as improving energy efficiency by up to 20%, the new drum design ensures a more efficient heat transfer to the nibs for an intense flavor boost.

Key topics

Billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies to cover their basic needs for food and mobility every day. Our motto is creating “innovations for a better world.” Find out more about our key topics.

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