date:Jul 26, 2012
The news was made public in CEMOIs latest newsletter following a meeting with Ivory Coast Prime Minister Jeannot Kouadio-Ahoussou.
$3.7m investment
The company currently has a cocoa grind capacity at its only Ivorian factory of 70,000 tonnes. The facility in Abidjan will soon be capable of grinding 100,000 tonnes of cocoa beans as part of a US $3.7 million (2 billion FCFA) investment.
It is as yet unclear whether CEMOI plans to use the additional cocoa ground at the site for its own chocolate