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ABOVE & BELOW: The Wood Roaster also supplies other cafés and sells its own retail range of blends and beans.
Loupis has just installed new plug and chain automation, also custom built. It allows coffee to be moved around the factory from the roaster to the mixer, without damaging the bean.
“We also had a new floveyor conveying system installed recently. It is a system that has never been used with coffee production before.
It looks like a little version of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with everything going on,” Loupis says.
“The best advantage of having this system is that our staff do not have to touch or unload the beans and reload them into the mixer, which is all automated.
“This saves our staff from lifting, which is obviously beneficial their health and wellbeing, but it also saves roughly about a day’s work and quite a bit of money on our operations.”
Expansion into other markets is also on the cards, with
Brisbane being earmarked as the next state to move into within the next year or two.
“One of the reasons we are looking at Brisbane is because we’ve had a lot of potential customers from there call us wanting our products,” Loupis adds.
“They are looking for a unique product that will wow their
microlots and other unique beans that are hard to come by.
“We are always looking for the unique microlots and geisha products that we can offer to our customers for retail and wholesale,” Loupis says.
“Primarily, when creating a blend, we want to look for different characteristics that come from each different bean
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“ It is a system that has never been used with coffee production before. It looks like a little version of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with everything going on.”
customers. It is a different market up there, but they are all about the flavour and love what we are all about.”
The company says they will continue to bring in new high-end coffee beans for its clientele, including geishas or
and how those profiles work together to create unique flavours for each blend to make it special, which is a process that can take weeks or months.”
For a coffee roaster with fire under his coffee beans, that is time well spent. ✷