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When you enter the  Long Grove Confectionery ’s production facility, the first thing you notice is the aroma of chocolate.

The 85,000-square-foot building is Buffalo Grove’s answer to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Inside, pretzels, caramels, nuts and other treats roll down conveyor belts, as they journey to a chocolate-covered future.

“People don’t have any idea how much work goes into a piece of candy before they get to eat it,” said Ann Holterman, the confectionery’s human resources manager.

While absent of Oompa Loompas, the factory on Lexington Drive does employ a staff of 120, which includes about 70 who work in production.

The factory uses 1 million pounds of chocolate each year, Holterman said. While candy centers, such as caramel and marshmallow, are produced in house, the chocolate is purchased from Blommer Chocolate Co. in Chicago. It arrives in solid 10-pound blocks or as a liquid transported to Buffalo Grove in tanker trucks.

From there, the chocolate is warmed, mixed, drizzled and molded to create Long Grove Confectionery’s popular sweets, which range from chocolate-covered pretzels to solid chocolate wrenches and holiday-themed treats.

“There aren’t a lot of candy companies in the U.S. who do it as handmade as we do,” Holterman said, noting that molds are filled and emptied by hand and details such as the colored eyes on chocolate Easter bunnies are hand-painted.

The family-run confectionery opened in 1975 under the direction of owner John Mangel in Long Grove, where the candy was made and sold. A decade later, the factory relocated to Buffalo Grove, and in 2002 a 60,000-square-foot addition was built, resulting in larger kitchens, warehouses and the tour facility.

While Long Grove Confectionery products continue to be sold in the store in Long Grove’s business district as well as in an outlet shop on the Buffalo Grove campus, 80 percent of the company’s business is wholesale, Holterman said.

“We private label for a lot of companies,” she said. “We ship across the country. We even have a customer in Dubai.”

For that reason, the factory always is planning. “At the end of July, we’ll start really producing for Christmas, Hanukkah and Halloween,” she said.

The factory makes only solid chocolate. Most candy, with the exception of that containing marshmallow, is kosher.

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