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Tomato ketchup is one of the world's most popular condiments, and it can be found in many households around the world. We have it with burgers, fries and justice about anything that we could think of to complement our mills. Heinz is one of the market leaders in ketchup, selling over 650 million bottles of ketchup around the world every year. We visited its European factory in the Netherlands to see how the world famous condiment is made. Here in Else we make sauces for the Craft Heinz Company. Our main product is ketchup. That's 70% of what we do. We make about 1.8 million bottles a day and that relates to about 175,000 tons of ketchup a year. Catch up make and process starts here, where crates of tomato paste where in 1300 kilograms are transported from the Heinz warehouse using automated forklifts. It creates our opened and then go to the pay stumper where these huge Ronan pings squeeze the pace out of the package. After the pace has been extracted, it sits in the storage bin where it's mixed with water to give a smoother consistency. This makes it easier to transport to the storage tank, where it will sit until moving on to the ketchup kitchen. This is our ketchup kitchen and this is where we actually produce the tomato ketchup. Ketchup is made of five ingredients, sugar, vinegar, tomato paste, brine, and the secret spices. The spices are those by hand. We dose everything, we mix it and afterwards goes into our process. The process is mainly about heating the ketchup and then cooling it down. Afterwards we fill it into the bottles. But before any catch up can be shipped, each batch must be rigorously tested through this contraption, which Heinz calls the quantifier. This is our quantifier. It's a method where we measure viscosity of our Heinz Tomato Ketchup. It's a methodology that we use in all our ketchup factories so that we compare the ketchup quality for all the factories. What we do is we put a certain amount of ketchup inside the quantifier, we release it, and we measure how fast it has traveled after 10 seconds. 10.5 within range. It's a special method designed by Heinz. The ketchup cannot move faster than 0.028 mph. If it has traveled too far. We have to block it, cannot sell it. If it's within the range, we can release it. It's for the empty bottles. They go into the filler. We have 70 filling heads. It's a filler that works by weight, so a bottle comes in, we check the weight of the empty bottle, we fill it to the proper weight with ketchup, and then we check again if we reach the filling weight. The boxes with caps are emptied at the bottom floor by the operator and transported upstairs. Upstairs we make sure the caps are put in the right position and go to a single row of caps so that we can position them properly on the bottle in the filling machine. And for this model we have three labels. So we have a neck label, a back label and a front label. These labels are self adhesive, so we don't need any glue for it after the label. Or we go to a trade Packer where we get a tray from the bottom, we fold it around the bottles. After that put a shrink wrap around it and make sure the bottles are tight and packed in the tray. From straight back or we go to the palletizer where a robot puts the trace in the right position and from the right position we make layer for layer on the palette. After that we put a shrink wrap around it. Now that we've seen how its iconic ketchup is made, how did Hires become the prominent brand it is today? Heinz was founded in Pittsburgh in 1869 by 25 year old named Henry John Hines, who began his business by sending his mother's horseradish recipe. Over the years, Heinz expanded his catalogue, selling Pickles, vinegar, and eventually tomato ketchup. Was launched in 1876. It was a roaring success, and in 1886 the company began shipping the source to the UK. Following the overwhelming popularity of highest ketchup, High started producing 13 million bottles a year and exporting them all over the world. Which explains why you're never too far from a bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup.