Huajia Food Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Huajia Food Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. processes malt and other grains. Its head office is in Shanghai, in the Shengquan Building on Tanjiadu Road, and manufacturing is carried out by its wholly owned subsidiary Jiangsu Huajia Food Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2006 at No. 366 West Renmin Road in the Sheyang Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu. The Jiangsu company is a national high-technology enterprise.

The core products are barley malt extract and malt extract, both supplied as viscous liquid or as powder. Barley and malt are converted to wort by enzymatic saccharification, then refined and vacuum concentrated, with multi-stage milling for the powder forms. Barley malt extract is offered in yellow, amber and brown shades for beverages, dairy, bakery, confectionery, ice cream, snacks, pharmaceuticals and alcohol. A clarified malt juice, which adds a liquefaction and acid precipitation step, is intended for clear drinks. The company also makes an all-natural malt colour, cocoa crunchy inclusions including a sucrose-free version, hydrolysed oat powder and chocolate and milk malt beverages. Liquids ship in 6 kg pails, 25 kg drums, 290 kg steel drums and 1,335 kg IBC totes; powders in 20 kg bags.

Research on barley malt extract and grain processing is carried out with the College of Food Science at Wuhan Polytechnic University, and the company offers development work from concept through to finished product. Certification covers ISO 22000, FSSC 22000 and ISO 9001. A consumer brand, Grains Papa, was launched in 2018, and the company entered the Thai market in 2017. The current website is a script-driven application whose content service was not responding, so this profile draws on an archived copy of the company's own pages.