4 STiR tea & coffee industry international
52
Faster Filling
Machines
News & Views:
From the Editor 6
La Roya Counterpunch
News 8
Equipment News 11
Tea Round Up 14
By Jane Pettigrew
Coffee Round Up 18
By Jenny Neill
Coffee Taster Confessions 64
By Alf Kramer
Events Calendar 66
Advertisers Index 66
56
Keep it
Simple
Contents
STiR Tea & Coffee
Industry International
Vol 3 No 1
January/February 2014
60
High & Dry
On the Cover: The "I" in STiR this month is a
spinning cone column by Flavourtech. It is used
as an aroma recovery device in the production of
soluble coffee. www.flavourtech.com
Features:
12 Sharing Science Knowledge
A coffee conversation
22 Coping with Rust
Declining quality a concern
26 American Tea
A dozen states and counting
32 Rejecting Defects
Sorting equipment advice
38 Single Serve Solutions
Five ways to get into pods
46 Filter Pods for Home Use
Sustainable single-serve
52 Extraordinary Demand
Fast, flexible fill and seal
56 Toward Simpler Packaging
Shiny is out, rustic in
60 High and Dry
Warehousing green coffee
38
Single Serve
Solutions