Jan Schoneveld is head of the technical service department at Goodlife Foods, formerly Izico Food Group, and has been working for the company for 28 years now. "GoodLife stands for passion for food, being a good employer, for health (less salt, no palm oil...), green, open atmosphere. The people here have been employees for than 20 years on average now, so that’s a significant sign, I would say."
Katwijkers still know the company by the name of duif snacks. It’s like this. Back in the sixties Piet Duivenvoorde had a snack bar in Noordwijk. He was inspired by the spring rolls served by Chinese restaurants. He started making them himself and gradually also supplied his fellow snack bars. The quantities kept growing until folding spring rolls manually was no longer an option. Machines set in. Nowadays the company is producing more than the breathtaking number of 650,000 spring roll snacks per day... varying from 20 g to 220 g in five varieties: vegetarian, chicken, ham, beef and pork, mixed with bean sprouts, carrot, onion, cabbage, leek, all freshly supplied, blanched, sliced and internally processed.
It’s a completely automatic process and here too SEW-EURODRIVE is involved. SEW takes care – besides other drive suppliers (fair ‘s fair) – of the conveyor belts moving in the spring roll factory and, more recently, of the drive of one of the two spiral freezers (rpm: 0.69 rotation per minute) in which the spring rolls, after being baked, turn into a frozen state in an hour and a half.