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
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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
