Articles Tagged with ''cocoa processing''

Puratos Group rolls out cocoa sustainability program in Papua New Guinea

Program improves fermentation process for optimized taste.

Christian Metzger

July 10, 2018

Puratos Group has introduced its Cacao-Trace sustainable cocoa sourcing program to Papua New Guinea.

European Cocoa Association elects Barry Callebaut’s Steven Retzlaff as president

Retzlaff to serve two-year term.

Christian Metzger

July 6, 2018

The European Cocoa Association elected Steven Retzlaff, president of global cocoa at Barry Callebaut, as chairman during its last General Assembly in Zurich.

Seeing cacao at the source

Alfred Ritter offers Candy Industry opportunity to see cacao growing operation in Nicaragua.

Alyse Thompson-Richards

May 2, 2018

In February, Associate Editor Alyse Thompson visited Finca El Cacao, a 2,500-hectare cocoa plantation in Nicaragua owned and operated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. The company, eager to open up its supply chain and highlight its progress in the Central American country, brought Alyse and German journalists to the plantation to show them how they do things.

Lindt to invest $32 million in Olten cocoa mass production facility

Swiss facility produces cocoa mass for all of Lindt’s European processing, refinement facilities.

Alyse Thompson-Richards

February 1, 2018

Lindt & Sprüngli Schweiz AG has announced plans to invest more than CHF 30 million ($32.25 million) in expanding and increasing the capacity of its production facility in Olten, Switzerland, this year.

Haiti’s first bean-to-bar chocolate maker featured in University of Michigan documentary

Les Chocolateries Askanya co-founder Corinne Joachim-Sanon talks about returning to Haiti to “create jobs and wealth.”

Bernie Pacyniak

February 15, 2017

After 10 years of working as an engineer and a business consultant, Joachim-Sanon determined it was time to return to Haiti. After researching the country’s cacao heritage and the art of chocolate making, she and her husband, Andreas Symietz, invested their life savings to start a chocolate factory, Les Chocolateries Askanya, in rural Haiti.

Royal Duyvis Wiener B.V opens Dutch Technology Center for cocoa, chocolate and nuts

Company celebrates 130th anniversary with new facilities

Crystal Lindell

March 30, 2016

Royal Duyvis Wiener B.V. recently celebrated the opening of its Technology Center, the extension of the production facility, the modernizing of the offices and their 130th anniversary.

ADM to sell global cocoa business to Olam

December 16, 2014

The $1.3 billion transaction will free up capital for Archer Daniels Midland Co. to use for higher-return, less-volatile investments.

Interpack 2014 Preview

Royal Duyvis Wiener

January 24, 2014

The joined forces of Duyvis, Wiener, F.B. Lehmann and Thouet offer more than 400 years of combined experience in cocoa and chocolate processing.

Interpack 2014 Preview

Caotech

January 24, 2014

Caotech will be pleased to discuss the latest developments on cocoa, chocolate and compound processing.

ADM health outreach program helps Ghanaian farmers, families

67 communities in Ashanti region receive broad range of services.

July 24, 2013

ADM Cocoa Ghana Limited (a cocoa processing company located in Kaase-Kumasi), in collaboration with GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a German sustainable development organization, has developed a community health outreach program that benefits 67 communities in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

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