STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 23 ROASTING AND GRINDING SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT NEUHAUS NEOTEC hot air roasters and advanced grinders provide highest production flexibility and perfect aroma for mainstream products and specialties. www.neuhaus-neotec.com See us at GSCE in Seattle at booth 1806 visibility Kenyan coffee gets will help grow our market share in the United States," said Kiplimo Melli, head of Kenya's Coffee Directorate. Kenya exported more than 13 million pounds of coffee beans to the United States in 2015-16, nearly doubling the previous year's total. Officials intend to double that amount again by the end of 2019. NEPAL Proposed Arabica Plan The National Tea and Coffee Develop- ment Board (NTCDB) has proposed a new strategic plan that focuses on coffee quality control and productivity. NTCDB's five-year plan, extending through 2021, calls for five major areas of emphasis with a goal of developing commercial arabica coffee farming in 41 districts suitable for coffee cultivation. Sheshkanta Gautam, executive director of NTCDB, told the Himalayan News Service the strategy focuses on arabica coffee because the variety already is being cultivated in many areas it can bring a better price than robusta coffee. Learn more: www.teacoffee.gov.np/en/ UK Costa Opens Roastery Costa Coffee, one of the largest coffee brands in the United Kingdom, has begun roasting at its new facility in Basildon, Essex. The facility, priced at £38m ($46 million), is designed to quadruple Costa's roasting capacity. "Costa is growing rapidly as a global business and our new roastery will provide the platform for sustained international expansion," according to the company. "Turning on our new roasting capacity is a landmark for the Costa Coffee Roastery in Essex, UK business. It's a statement of our ambition to grow and our passion for great coffee." Costa is now roasting 45,000 tons of beans at the new facility which covers 85,690 square feet. Construction started in November 2015 only 14 miles from Tilbury Docks where its raw coffee beans are imported. The new roasting facility is one of Europe's largest. The operation is expected to have a lifespan of 20-30 years. Learn more: www.costa.co.uk US S&D TODDY concentrates S&D Coffee & Tea has launched Toddy cold brew coffee concentrates ― simpli- fying cold brew coffee for foodservice operations. S&D, the largest coffee and tea manufacturer and supplier to restau- rants and convenience stores in America, uses the proprietary Toddy commercial cold brewing process at scale to make the easy-to-use concen- trate. Concentrates alleviate the need for foodservice staff to spend hours measuring, steeping, and filtering out

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