The EUROFIND Group, which is continuing to develop its agro-industrial division, has created a new entity, the "Compagnie Cacaoyère du Bandama". This investment involved setting up a cocoa bean processing plant in Tiassalé, a town 120 km northwest of Abidjan. Local processing of cocoa into by-products creates added value and jobs in the heart of Côte d'Ivoire.
The production facility with an initial annual processing capacity of 32,000 tonnes, further expanded to 40,000 tonnes of cocoa beans, transformed into mass, butter and cake. All production is destined for export.
The cocoa beans, processed into butter and oilcake, are shipped to chocolate manufacturers on several continents, who then incorporate the products into their production.
Benefiting from a long-term contract with its partner, a major player in the sector, CCB will gradually develop recipes for natural or alkalinized products, in order to adapt to market trends.
Conscious of our Corporate Social Responsibility, we have set up an internal sustainability program called "Bandama", which aims to forge a strong partnership with our cooperatives and therefore our cocoa bean suppliers. Our ambition is to use this program to ensure a decent income for our planters, by combating child labor and deforestation, while promoting the empowerment of women.
We intend to extend this program to all our partners and thus to all our purchases by 2025. CCB will be fully in line with European Union requirements.
The quality of the investments made by CCB, and in particular the high-performance processing equipment, will enable us to rapidly reach our production targets.
The international quality standards that the company has set itself justify the considerable resources deployed throughout the transformation process. From bean reception to the export of finished products, CCB laboratories ensure constant quality control and traceability.
The aim is to double production capacity by 2025.
