Tea & Coffee Trade Journal articles from February 2009

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal archives from February 2009

Soluble gets its due.(from the Editor's Desk)
February 1, 2009... I had to laugh when I heard Starbucks has introduced an instant coffee product. Now don't get the wrong idea; I'm happy Starbucks did this... finally soluble coffee is getting and will receive its just and fair recognition. Instant coffee...

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February 1, 2009... "Bring me something rich and robust." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Loans provided to Uganda tea growers.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)
February 1, 2009... KAMPALA -- Danish International Development Agency (Danida) will make an $8 million interest-free loan to smallholder tea growers in Uganda to purchase tea-processing machines. Smallholder farmers have recently scaled up harvest volumes, but...

Vietnam tea exports up, coffee and tea fields suffering.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)
February 1, 2009... HANOI -- Vietnam's tea industry plans to export 117,000 tons of tea, with expected earnings of $167 million in 2009, an increase of 13%. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Nguyen Thanh Bien said the tea sector needed to improve tea...

500,000 coffee seedlings to be produced.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)
February 1, 2009... KIGALI -- Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute (ISAR), a government research arm is set to launch a coffee tissue culture laboratory at ISAR, Rubona station in Huye, states The New Times. "This laboratory was purposely established for...

Final 2008 coffee crop estimate.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)
February 1, 2009... BRAZIL -- The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supplies (MAPA) released their final estimate for the 2008 coffee crop. The estimate was made by CONAB, the National Supply Company after a field survey and research with grower...

Rejuvenate tea production.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)(Indian Tea Association )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... KOLKATA -- The Indian Tea Association (ITA) has urged planters in the Terai and Dooars regions of West Bengal to reassess the possibility of bringing back some of their orthodox and green tea production. It is thought this will improve overall...

Calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... March 19-21: NCA 98th Annual Convention Boca Raton Resort & Club, Boca Raton, Florida Tel: + 1 (212) 766-4007 Fax: +1(212) 766-5815 Email: info@ncausa.org Web: www.ncausa.org April 16-19: SCAA 21st Annual...

Thinking outside the box, and inside the bottle: the combination of caffeine and alcohol is creating quite the buzz. Coffee and beer and this unassuming flavor combination is providing coffee roasters with a basically uncharted channel ... and an excuse to drink on the job.(Coffee Beer)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It used to be that coffee roasters would see their product in limited forms. Americanos, lattes and cappuccinos would be the basic extent, and maybe a blended iced beverage if you were really lucky. Today, however,...

The soluble coffee enigma: to label instant coffee as soluble and thereby infer other forms of coffee are insoluble is an enigma. All types of coffee are soluble in water and if not the commodity would have to be eaten not drunk.(Soluble Coffee)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ever since coffee was taken as a beverage, roasting grinding and leaching comprise the trio of essential preparation stages, prior to consumption, irrespective of where and how they are carried out. The...

A brief tour of coffee's chemical composition: everyday millions of people around the world begin their day religiously with a cup of coffee. Though today we easily identify coffee in its beverage form, it wasn't always this way in the beginning.(Coffee's Chemistry)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout history, coffee has taken on several physical transformations, initially serving as an energy source when nomadic tribes combined coffee berries with animal fat as an early form of an energy bar. Later it...

A middle-weight contender with style and glamour: roaster Caffe Vergnano is a reminder of how Italian family-owned coffee roasting business are a combination of passion and expertise.(Company Profile)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the 1930s Caffe Vergnano bought its own coffee plantation in Kenya. This is indicative of a company that has stayed close to its green coffees at origin, a tradition it conscientiously pursues in the numerous...

The future of flavors: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal sits down with Jeff Nichols, of Flavor & Fragrance International for tips on increasing your flavor business without raising your budget.(Flavor Report 2009)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] So the economy is affecting everyone... this, we know. Today you can pick up just about any periodical and read article upon article on ways to save money, ways to increase profitability, ways to adapt to the...

Cooxupe inaugurates a new coffee laboratory: Cooxupe, The Cooperative Regional de Cafecultores em Guaxupe, recently inaugurated a new state-of-the-art coffee analysis laboratory located at company headquarters in Guaxupe, Minas Gerais, Brazil.(Coffee Laboratory)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cooxupe the largest Brazilian coffee cooperative and probably the largest in the world, has over 11,000 producer members located in the principal quality zones of the Sul de Minas, Cerrado Mineiro and Mogiana regions...

Ramacafe 2008: Where the coffee spirit lives on: it was passion above anything else. Passion for the bean, passion for the trade, passion for the baristas, passion for the industry and, above all, it was passion for the coffee producer.(Show Preview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2008 Ramacafe show in Nicaragua, now in its eighth year, once again managed to stroll down new roads and explore unknown territory: And even under the immense pressure by ongoing global economic turmoil felt wide...

The world of tea consulting: looking through the UKERS' directory, one can see a section listing tea consultants, but it's not often that one learns what tea consultants do on a daily basis. How do they help tea businesses start and grow? What different job duties do they perform? Who are the clientele that they work with? These are some questions posed to leading tea consultants.(Tea Consulting)(Directory)
February 1, 2009... What exactly does a tea consultant do? Suzanne Brown, a multifaceted marketing consultant, owns Brown Marketing Communications, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia (http://www.browncommunications.us/in dex.html), and one of her company's services is...

Ultrasonic: cutting time and labor in the beverage industry: in the foodservice industry, where devices to be used for food and beverage preparation are manufactured or in which food and beverages are packaged, cleanliness is the most important factor. Brewer manufacturer, Wilbur Curtis found a solution.(Ultrasonic Cleaning)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One instance of shipping an unclean item or tainted food or beverage can mean the end of a million-dollar enterprise. For many sectors of these industries, ensuring cleanliness has meant endless hours of hand...

Home sweet home, or office too.(Espresso Express)
February 1, 2009... Panafe, an Italian manufacturer of espresso brewers for pods and caps, located near Ravenna, offers a true range of model colors and designs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To see this array, visit: www.panafe.com. E-mail: vendite...

Rocket Espresso's Giotto looks worthy of it name.(Espresso Express)
February 1, 2009... Jeff Kennedy set about importing the Giotto espresso machine from ECM into New Zealand, and with a great marketing campaign, his coffee roasting company, Caffe L'affare, was soon selling up to 500 machines per year. When ECM suspended...

Sublime Sublima from Brasilia.(Espresso Express)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Sublima extracts coffee at a record concentration of 10.4 brix with a standard 7 grams-espresso dose. While the traditional brewing pressure could hardly exceed 9 bars without over extracting coffee, the Sublima's innovative pumpdriven...

Espacio Barista.(Espresso Express)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is something so new from VFA, the noted Spanish espresso machine manufacturer, that details are still awaited. However, as can be seen, this is a professional espresso bar on wheels. The centerpiece is, of...

New Buhler & Petroncini partnership underlines commitment to coffee market.(Trade News)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Buhler and Petroncini Impianti have come together to offer coffee processors solutions that will maximize quality, efficiency, productivity and profitability. They cover the entire processing chain from green bean handling, cleaning,...

MyBlendCoffee.(Trade News)
February 1, 2009... The Roasterie, inc., specialty coffee roaster, has launched MyBlendCoffee.com, a web site that lets coffee drinkers create personalized blends right on their PC. With just 10 questions, MyBlendCoffee.com analyzes a coffee drinker's taste...

Starbucks offers instant coffee.(Trade News)
February 1, 2009... Starbucks is now selling an instant coffee product called Starbucks VIA Ready Brew, that replicates the body and flavor of Starbucks coffee. "We have worked for nearly 20 years to develop an instant coffee that offers customers the quality...

McGann joins beyond the Bean.(People News)
February 1, 2009... Gary McGann, will be joining Beyond the Bean, a supplier of quality drinks from brands including Sweetbird and Zuma, Byron Bay Cookie range, cafes, restaurants and hotels plus a comprehensive range of gear for baristas, as sales and marketing...

New sales manager for Oliver Manufacturing.(People News)
February 1, 2009... Oliver Manufacturing of Colorado has hired Jon E. Moreland as its sales manager. Moreland will take the lead in marketing and sales and oversee the development of product identity and public relations. Most recently, Moreland was involved in...

Autocrat promotes growth with several new sales hires.(People News)
February 1, 2009... Autocrat, Inc., a fourth-generation family-owned business that roasts coffee and manufactures coffee extracts, has hired four new sales people to promote future growth of both coffee extracts and coffee on demand. The Food Ingredient...

Quality Espresso USA opens; names national sales manager.(People News)
February 1, 2009... Larry Hudoff has joined Quality Espresso USA Inc as national sales manager based in their recently created Miami, Florida operation. With more than 15 years of related industry managerial sales experience, Hudoff brings valuable knowledge and a...

William Bowron, November 15, 2008, age 88.(Obituary)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bowron helped transform Red Diamond Coffee and Tea from a small firm into a national player in the beverage industry. Bowron was the third generation of his family to lead the longtime Birmingham-based firm that got...

Probat drum roasters consume 20% less energy.(Equipment & Packaging News)
February 1, 2009... Probat-Werke von Gimborn Maschinenfabrik GmbH has published new data on the energy consumption of the Neptune coffee roaster. New studies have shown that the drum roaster's needs can be reduced to 88 mega joules per 100 kgs of green coffee....

Zwirnerei teabag threads.(Equipment & Packaging News)
February 1, 2009... The new teabag threads developed by Zwirnereri a.d. Wutach GmbH have good running properties on all kind of teabagging machines. Each thread is made in accordance with food legislation and hygiene requirements. These teabag threads are...

Compostable paper hot cup from Solo.(Equipment & Packaging News)
February 1, 2009... Solo Cup has introduced a new compostable paper hot cup lined with polylactic acid (PLA), a plant-based resin. Made from 100% renewable resource materials, the PLA hot cup is Solo's newest addition to its line of eco-forward single-use...

Ambex Mini-roaster.(Equipment & Packaging News)
February 1, 2009... Ambex has produced its newest and smallest roaster yet: The Ambex Mini! This 1.3 lb batch roaster was created for cafes, farmers markets and for use as a sample/blend development roaster. It roasts up to 1.3 lbs in 10 minutes and features full...