this is the biggest pasta factory in the world Barilla produces 1,400 tons of pasta each day at its flagship plant in Parma Italy each line produces about 10,000 pounds of pasta per hour which goes to fill roughly 230 blue Barilla boxes the recipe for dry pasta is simple it only takes stirring wheat semolina flour and water to make dough Barilla then takes the dough and turns it into 103 different shapes including long strands of spaghetti and bow ties of farfalle machines punch out each shape before the pasta goes through the drying process this process allows the pasta to preserve itself so that nothing else is needed to keep it fresh this is what gives the Box yellow carbs a longer shelf life than most other products we press the pasta throughout a die which is a metal plate with holes shaped in the way to obtain the format of pasta that we want to pack we dry the pasta for up to 12 hours in the printers plant depending on the recipe depending on the formats in order to obtain a shelf stable dry and ready to be eaten pasta the Barilla factory operates 24 hours seven days a week we produce more than 320 thousand tons of pasta per year which means at the end of the year more than 4. 2 billions of pasta dishes so we are very proud to say that in 18 months we can we can fit the entire population of the world Pirela started as a small bake shop in the center of Parma more than 140 years ago today the company is privately owned by fourth-generation Barilla brothers guido luca and paulo while ownership has stayed the same for decades much has changed since 1877 especially in the way pasta is sold today the turning point came when Pietro Barilla traveled to the u. s.
after the Second World War and he saw the packaging of food and so he came back he was very much in touch with artists and designers and together with the artists they designed the blue box which is now famous all over the world Barilla consumers around the world buy more spaghetti than any other blue box variety and that's what makes it the most produced shape in the factory I think that spaghetti in terms of long cut pasta is very well known all around the world because in China you have noodles in Italy spaghetti of course but it's not that far from the culture and the habits of many many people Asian in the world Barilla is available in more than 100 countries including Brazil Singapore and Japan Italy was traditionally the biggest pasta market for Barilla until the u. s. recently took over the top spot today the company controls 32.
