In 2021, when Nestlé celebrated 100 years since the establishment of its pioneering factory in the city of Araras, in the interior of São Paulo, it began a major modernization process in its coffee roasting sector. This involved replacing some older equipment with more modern, economical, and environmentally friendly solutions.

They started this endeavor by introducing a state of the art roaster with the goals of improving roast quality, reducing weight loss or improving yield, safely performing darker roasts, complying with stringent environmental regulations regarding emissions and carbon footprint reduction, and achieving all this with minimal energy and operational costs, leveraging the best available market technologies.

Cia Lilla participated in this modernization by making a revamp in an old Opus already existent, to a new 4G roasting control, and also increasing its production to 3.000 kilos/hour, which was then jointly evaluated as a technological option for the solution sought by Nestlé. Subsequently, as part of the group’s investments, three more Opus 3500 roasters were acquired. After commissioning this roasting processing complex, two more Opus 4G 4000 units were recently purchased, expected to be operational in the second half of 2024.

Several factors contributed to this increasingly reliable partnership between the two companies and the preference for Lilla roasters. Key aspects of Lilla equipment include:

Lower roasting loss
Lowest electrical and fuel consumption in the market
Advantage over European roasters due to the ability of roasting dark coffee without the risk of fire or explosion
Flexibility in roast profiles with accuracy and consistency in color and moisture
High-quality roasting for all types of coffee
4G’s roasting control perfect accuracy, delivering same result batch after batch
Easy preventive maintenance
Production capacity of 4000 kg/h
Safety system meeting all standards, such as BR-NR12 and European-CE
Lilla is among the only three manufacturers approved Nestlé Technical Center to supply coffee roasters to the group.
Compliance with all stringent strict Nestlé standards