Inside the Factory

A visit to a coffee factory reveals the secrets of making instant coffee, from the arrival of green coffee beans to the packaging of freeze-dried granules.

An exploration into how toilet paper is made takes our team from a Swedish forest to a massive British factory that produces more than 700,000 rolls a day.

A visit to the Heck factory in North Yorkshire shows the process of mixing, filling, boxing, and distributing hundreds of thousands of sausages every day.

A visit to the Premier Foods cooking factory reveals how the company cooks, packages, and distributes 250,000 jars of curry sauce every day.

A day at the Birds Eye frozen food factory reveals the complicated manufacturing processes that goes into producing nearly a million potato waffles a day.

We visit a pizza factory in Italy to reveal the machinery and manpower that goes into manufacturing and packaging 400,000 pies a day.

A visit to Britain's largest brewery details the machines and processes involved in rolling out an astonishing three million pints of beer every day.

We tour the Faber-Castell factory in Germany and explore the machines that craft their classic HB pencils at a rate of 600,000 a day.

A visit to the Primula Cheese factory reveals the secrets to making spreadable cheese at a rate of over 115,000 tubes a day.