Industrias QuantiK SAS was ranked third in the fifth stage of the Alliances for Innovation Program, which aims for entrepreneurs in the Coffee Region to have technical, mental and practical innovation tools that will allow them to compete with other companies they face in the market.

Minciencias, Confecámaras, the Chambers of Commerce of the Coffee Region and the autonumus University of Manizales UAM are in charge of executing this project in the capital of Caldas, which began with the partition of 31 entrepreneurs at this stage.

Founded in 1994, QuantiK is a company concerned with coffee productivity. For many years, he has handled research, design, development, manufacture and marketing of industrial and laboratory equipment for the quality control of coffee.

Industrias QuantiK It has worked under the scheme of the application and advanced technological development of the country through the application of new technologies in the coffee industry, with committed and trained human talent that allows its fulfillment. Under this premise, the company developed a portable moisture meter machine QuantiK DH 200.

“We wanted to develop a device that would be quite inexpensive so that any producer can acquire it, that is simple to use, that is very intuitive and has no major complications.”, coment Diego José Vargas Rosero,

Company manager. 

It works as follows: a coffee sample is taken in the meter and the meter sends data to the application where you can see how the percentage of moisture in the coffee has changed while it dries. Through the entry of an internet page, which is the application, you can study the actions of the days to know how the drying behaves depending on the climatic changes by means of a graph.