Lorenzo Datei

Partner at Packint Chocolate Machines and Tecnochoc

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BIOGRAPHY

Lorenzo Datei is one of the 3 partners of PACKINT CHOCOLATE MACHINE and TECNOCHOC.
He as a master degree in Mechanical Engineering Robotics and Automation, his dissertation about a Chocolate Ball Mill has been published by the Journal of Food Engineering and cited in many other papers and in Industrial Chocolate Manufacture and Use, the sacred book of chocolate making.
He started his career as technical person, installing chocolate plants all over the world, programming PLC-HMI systems, teaching chocolate technology and recipes to customers and designing new machines.
In 2007 he started taking care about sales for North, Central, South America.
In 2014 he founded Packint’s American branch with a complete pilot plant near NYC.
Lorenzo has been a lecturer in several institutions and universities for over 10 years, always with his favourite topic and all of its applications and problems: chocolate.
Apart from Italian, he also fluently speaks English, Spanish, French and Russian.
He eats at least 100g of chocolate every day.

BPC 2025

The Unique Case Study of a Bakery With Chocolate: One Solution for Three Problems
Early last year the cocoa prices experienced a sudden spike with increases up to 400%. Also the chocolate and chocolate compound prices saw an increase of 3-4 times. This is the story of a company that had never considered integrating the production of chocolate, but was forced by the financial circumstances to explore this path, and that had solved two technical problems related to chocolate they had never been able to assess in the past with an in-house manufacture.