Couscous lines

Storci produces small couscous lines with outputs of up to 500 kg/h, while Fava produces lines with outputs from 1,200 to 3,000 kg/h for which Storci produces the machinery for the start of the line. The partnership with Fava is of paramount importance as this company is a leader in the sector and explored these markets before us. For couscous can produce the particle size required by the customer thanks to a specific choice of sieves, that produce fine, medium and coarse couscous. Premix is the innovative system which guarantees the quality of the product (which appears intensely yellow) and better firmness to the bite when cooked; inside the steam cooker unit use conveyor belts which, no longer being made of steel, overcome the problem of the product presenting black and burned grains which stick to the belt and can end up in the finished product.

Fresh pasta

The production of fresh pasta is a process that many consider well-consolidated and fully-developed. Storci begs to differ, if anything are ready to accept new market challenges: and fresh pasta is one of them. A market that is in constant growth with special demands that require great skill and professionalism from the plant engineering perspective. Pasta manufacturers not only expect technology that can guarantee the excellent quality of the product but also, and even more important, its safety for the consumer. Ravioli, tortellini, mezzelune, pre-portioned tagliatelle and stacked lasagna: the widest range of fresh pasta products. Storci fresh pasta lines have been designed to guarantee maximum quality and shelf-life for fresh pasta with a single pasteurization process. High temperature drying, freezing and double pasteurization systems are available for frozen or stabilized pasta. Thanks to technologies for the production of the dough, Premix®, Beltmix and Bakmix, it is possible to obtain top quality dough mixes with excellent firmness to the bite when cooked and a superb yellow colour also integrating vacuum technology. The STF TV and VSF TV/MIX series of dough sheeters make it possible to apply vacuum technology to the production of pasta sheets.

Ready meals

The promotion of ready meal lines is stepping up, not only in Italy, which is still our reference market, but also in other countries such as the United States, France and Great Britain where the consumption of ready meals is already part of the common day lifestyles. Ready meals offer an opportunity not to be missed, and are becoming increasingly more widespread thanks to the advantages they provide, such as time saving and convenience. The general economic trend over the last year has curbed the growth in consumption but this is a tendency that may be slowed down, but lasagna is the most popular ready meal. For this product, Storci has reconfirmed its flair for innovation by designing technical solutions for producing ready-to-serve lasagna which are partially and totally automated also as in terms of tray packaging.

Customer service

Apart from the quality of machinery and lines, Storci have a MIUR certified (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research), Omnia patents, a machine created around ten years ago which can make all kinds of pasta shapes, and customer service. The team is structured in a dynamic, functional way, with experience and professional skill as its guiding principles. Response to the client’s problems is always rapid, certain and substantial. Active training is another important feature of customer service: the client is assisted step by step after installation, and placed in the position to manage the installation from that point on independently. A customer needs to be followed up, instructed where necessary, and his requests have to be satisfied, from the smallest to the most complex and difficult. Implementing a company Quality Management System means being able to create, and even more importantly, maintain, conditions that guarantee a systematic approach aimed at meeting our primary objective: satisfying our customers’ needs. Certifying a Quality Management System on the basis of ISO 9001 norms has allowed us to be able to demonstrate through the declaration of an independent and officially recognized certifying body, that not only does our company conform to reference standard requirements, but is also able to consistently assure its customers the level of product and service quality it declares. Storci are ISO 9001:08 certified.