THE NEED TO MODERNISE
“...THE EXPANSION, IN ADDITION TO THE REHABILITATION, INCREASED THE PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF THE FACTORY TO MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE PREVIOUS CAPACITY”
Over the years, the factory has improved its manufacturing technologies and production capacity, while being reliant on old machinery. But a few years ago, it became apparent that the demand for liquor products in Ethiopia outweighed the supply.
“The factory’s management decided to conduct a market and feasibility study. The study clearly indicated the growth of demand for liquor products over the upcoming years, and that producing these liquors is highly feasible. The feasibility study also showed the existence of growing demand for Ethiopian liquor products abroad,” Mesfin says.
Many Ethiopians – especially those who live in rural areas – partake of traditional drinks such as tej, a honey wine flavoured with gesho twigs.
But according to the CEO, there is an increasing appetite for beer, spirits, soft drinks and bottled water across the country.
In order to keep up with demand, NALF needed to modernise and improve capacity.
“The factory, then, started to implement expansion and rehabilitation of its old and downsized plant machinery. The expansion, in addition to the rehabilitation, increased the production capacity of the factory to more than four times the previous capacity,” he says.
FRILLI
srl is a company specialising in the design and construction of new distilleries, expansion and/or optimisation of current distilleries using its know-how, experience and technology.
Founded by Frilli Brother’s in 1912 in Poggibonsi, Frilli is now based in Monteriggioni, in the centre of Chianti region, between Florence and Siena.
Since 1914 the company started the manufacturing of the first industrial still made of copper with avant- garde technologies for that period. Year after year the company grows, beginning in the 1960s the export to other European countries especially France and Spain then Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, Middle east, Est European and ex-soviet Union countries, Asia and USA.
Our previous and current experience in upstream processing gave us the possibility to test and grow our knowhow and technology continually developing and balancing quality with price, assisting our clients to establishing their position in the market place at the highest international level.
Following the company philosophy and engineering approach, our designs and manufacturing are all in-house and bespoke because distillation plants is our sole business - from engineering supply and feasibility studies going through to homemade production, R&D pilot plants, and arriving to turnkey supplied plants.
Working all over the world our company had direct experience processing any kind of feedstock as wine by-products, molasses, fruits, wheat, maize, barley to obtain bio-fuel, extra neutral alcohol and any other kind of distillate.
Nowadays Frilli products and engineering service range covers all the various distillery processes, batch or continuous, from raw material in take through all the necessary steps to reach alcohol production concluding in waste water treatment plant.