Pyongyang Stevia Processing Factory

The Pyongyang Stevia Processing Factory, located in Samsok District, Pyongyang, went into operation in April Juche 70 (1981).

It produces natural sweetening agent which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar and not harmful to the body with stevia as the main raw material.

Stevia is cultivated in farms on the outskirts of Pyongyang.

At the time of its inauguration, the factory produced liquid glucose.

At present, it has established a closed-circuit line to produce glucose powder in which all the processes, ranging from the raw material feeding to the forwarding of products, are measured and controlled by means of computers.

The products are supplied to the Pyongyang Cornstarch Factory, Pyongyang Wheat Flour Processing Factory and other units in the foodstuff and pharmaceutical industries as their sweetening raw material.

The factory ensures the purity of products by enhancing the performance of decolouring and desalting facilities. It uses activated charcoal recycled by means of microwave oscillator in the filtering process so as to lower production costs markedly.

It raises the actual rate of condensation, an important process, and improves the taste considerably by making use of poly iron sulphate instead of iron trichloride which was imported in the past.

Its products are gaining public favour for their meeting the technical indexes of taste, colour and purity.