Organic Pasta Company staff in front of hot air/steam pre-dryers. The one on the left is used to dry shaped extruded pasta aka macaroni, center spaghetti, and right noodle or ribbon pasta.
Spiral, shell, tube, elbow, twist and other shaped pastas are formed using a traditional screw press that extrudes dough through artisan brass dyes.
Macaroni from the pre-dryer is placed in wood framed, screen bottom, drying boxes.
Spinach spirals in drying boxes.
Spinach spirals in drying boxes.
Beet spirals in drying box.
Eden Organic Vegetable Spirals finish drying for 16 hours in the drying room.
Eden Organic Vegetable Shells.
Eden Organic Vegetable Shells moving to the packaging room.
Packaging machine opens the box and seals the bottom preparing for filling.
Pasta drops into the hopper above the packaging machine.
Hopper filled with Eden Organic Vegetable Shells.
Shells drop from hopper after being weighed.
Shells drop from hopper into boxes.
Tops of filled boxes are sealed and date coded.
Sealed boxes to the packaging room.
Through an important Quality Control device in the packaging room.
Organic Vegetable Shells boxes are put in cases of six, palletized and shipped to Eden's warehouse.