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Christian Ott, director of coffee at Stone Creek Coffee www.acma.it ACMA is one of the leading manufacturers of packaging machines in the consumer goods market, with a largest international share. Discover our tea bags packing solution at Tea & Coffee World Cup 2016. Cracow, Poland – 10 - 12 May 2016 Come visit us at stand 528 Acma technology. Make it natural The steps toward unification The SCAE move toward unification began with Stack's Gothenburg Re:Co presentation. His talk traced the simi- larities in the activities and the missions of both organizations as far back as the 1990s. Stack cited the collaboration be- tween SCAA and SCAE in organizing the World Barista Championship com- petitions as one example of how the two associations found common ground. The creation of World Coffee Events and the evolution of SCAA's Symposium into Re:Co Symposium were two other ex- amples of alignment. Stack spoke of the many challenges facing the coffee industry in his Re:Co presentation. The issues are well-known among specialty coffee thought leaders: food security, land encroachments, pests and diseases, creating and maintaining labor forces for large or small coffee farms. These concerns take on greater importance as the coffee industry enters a cycle of consolidation. In a post on the public SCAE website, Johan Damgaard, group c.e.o. of Johan & Nyström AB and a member of the SCAE board of directors, challenged specialty cof- fee professionals to look beyond their own businesses to the industry as a whole. He wrote: "We talk brewing times, extractions, new ways to prepare coffee and we fight and fuss when we should be working together and fight the mass industrial players who don't care about sustainability or specialty."