CIPEXI ensures cocoa supply in Côte d’Ivoire, the largest world producer of cocoa producing 1.25 million tons per year. CIPEXI makes a very
significant contribution to this performance.
- Supply chain
CIPEXI SA maintains preferential partnership relations with its cooperatives. Our area of purchase covers all the cocoa production
areas in Côte d’Ivoire. Our suppliers include a valuable portfolio of farmers’ cooperatives. Our cocoa purchasing power is 80,000 tons: 40,000 tons
in San Pedro and 40,000 tons in Abidjan. Our purchase agents are dynamic, committed and respectful. They travel across all production areas to ensure
effective supply. The monitoring of production in farms, the counting of cocoa pods and the monitoring of the changes in climate condition help us to
have accurate information regarding the different production and harvest stages.
- Quality
Both of our factories are equipped with a physico-chemical laboratory where the quality of the cocoa is tested. Besides, our experienced quality
controllers rigorously control cocoa beans before buying them from the farmers in the field. Only the product that is in compliance with the
prescribed standards (graining, defects, humidity level, FFA) is cleared to enter the factory.
