Nothing makes a candy lover's heart sink like wasted chocolate.
That loss resulted in 6,725 pounds of scrapped candy each year. As a chocolate connoisseur, Chew found the loss tragic, but as an manufacturing specialist, he saw it as avoidable. Much of the company's candy is made as sheets of white chocolate, called bark because it resembles fallen layers of a candy birch tree. Workers dump the bark from a tray to the belt, which carries it underneath rollers for cracking and into a box. The system, though, was far less smooth than the rich chocolate bark it processed.