00:02We're joined now by our reporter Catherine, who is live on the action. Catherine, what are you following?
00:10Hi there, Upton. Now, it's almost lunchtime. I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get a little bit
00:14peckish.
00:15And I found the perfect thing for both of us. This machine here, you might be able to tell, it's
00:20some kind of a 3D printer.
00:21But what's it doing? Well, it's actually 3D printing. Pâtisserie, one of the most famous French exports, of course.
00:28This machine is completely unique in the world. And I'm here with the lady who invented it and brought it
00:34to Vivotech.
00:35She's also holding one of the sorts of biscuits that it might produce. So, Marine Corée-Vaillet, thank you for
00:41being with us.
00:41Hello. Thank you. Welcome to Pâtisserie Numerique and on the Normandie Bouffe.
00:46Yes, indeed. We're on the Normandy stand, that region of northern France, where the factory of Pâtisserie is based.
00:53Marine, tell us about your invention. What does it do?
00:56So, it's an edible 3D food printer to create edible products. And basically, we are creating cookies without any additives.
01:07These cookies are from any shape based on a 3D file. It's really linked to my expertise.
01:12I've been working in the 3D print industry since 2011.
01:16And I'm also a pastry clerk. I hold a pastry degree. You know, it's a very serious thing in France
01:22to do pâtisserie.
01:23So, you need to have a special degree for that.
01:26Absolutely. Now, this is one that you prepared for us earlier.
01:29I have to admit to Upton and our viewers that we did keep Marine waiting for a little while.
01:32So, the cream is slightly melting. But this is a wonderful creation.
01:37Let's go and look at some other ones that your pastry chef is preparing over here.
01:41These are really shapes that it seems would be extremely difficult or impossible to create by hand.
01:46Exactly. So, the idea really is to work with chefs to create amazing shapes they won't be able to do
01:53in another way.
01:54For other peer chefs, or bakery chefs, or restaurants, we are more working on workforce shortage.
01:59You know, that's business that are difficult, where the workforce is missing.
02:05They have also the rise of the price of energy and the raw materials.
02:09So, it's difficult to make profitability. And we're helping them.
02:13When someone is missing, they can count on the machine to produce some stuff that won't be done.
02:19Another benefit is also to skip from tooling.
02:24You know, investing into molding or tooling is expensive.
02:28And with this machine, you can do any shape without any molds.
02:32So, you don't have to have a stock, a huge cupboard full of all these different molds of fantastic designs.
02:38You can actually just create each one or each batch one by one.
02:42Is this being used currently, then, by pastry chefs in France?
02:45That's what happened during this year.
02:48Last year, we were already at VivaTech, but only with a mock-up of the 3D printer.
02:52And now, as you see, we have the first units.
02:55The first units are deployed in France and in Belgium.
02:59We are working with various famous pastry chefs.
03:02I have to keep their confidations. I'm sorry about it.
03:05But we are also working with Tardumont, for instance, in Brussels.
03:08That's a very good patisserie there.
03:10And we are working also with food labs.
03:12I can give the example of the Marché d'Internet National of Toulouse.
03:16That's where you buy fruits and vegetables, you know, for restaurant professionals.
03:22And we are working on waste management.
03:25Wonderful. It's such an incredible invention.
03:27Very French, as you say.
03:29And I'm hoping that we might be able to taste some, maybe bring some back to the studio for you.
03:33That's it from us for now.
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