LDC press launch photograph.
Louis Dreyfus Firm (LDC) formally inaugurated its expanded inexperienced espresso processing facility in Varginha, Minas Gerais, finishing a serious funding within the firm’s longstanding Brazilian espresso operations.
The enlargement provides 13,000 sq. meters (139,000 sq. ft) to the power, rising its complete footprint to 31,000 sq. meters, roughly the dimensions of six soccer fields. LDC has not disclosed the challenge value.
The power now has storage capability for roughly 1 million espresso luggage and the flexibility to course of and deal with greater than 2.5 million luggage yearly — doubling its earlier processing capability and rising delivery capabilities by roughly 50%, in response to the Dutch multinational firm.
“This enlargement will streamline logistics for sourcing from small and medium-sized espresso growers, to fulfill each home distribution and export demand,” Arthur Graf, LDC’s head of espresso for Brazil, mentioned in an announcement from the corporate yesterday. “With elevated storage and processing capability, we will now buy and obtain espresso as quickly as farmers are able to promote, making certain a extra environment friendly circulate of products, even throughout peak harvest durations.”
The upgraded facility incorporates automated programs akin to robotic loading and field silo storage know-how, and contains enhancements to operational security, in response to LDC.
Positioned in Brazil’s largest coffee-producing state, the Varginha web site performs a strategic position in LDC’s inexperienced espresso provide chain. The corporate, which is among the prime three largest inexperienced espresso buying and selling firms on this planet, has maintained operations within the Varginha space for no less than 25 years.
The Varginha facility is one in every of three main espresso processing facilities operated by LDC in Brazil, with others in Nova Venécia (Espírito Santo) and Matipó (Minas Gerais). The corporate additionally maintains seven business places of work in key rising areas and employs round 480 individuals in its Brazil espresso operations, in response to firm advertising supplies.
The corporate has additionally expanded downstream operations in Brazil, buying the nation’s largest prompt espresso exporter, Cacique, final 12 months. LDC’s broader operations in Brazil span a number of different agricultural sectors, together with citrus, soybeans, sugar and rice.
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