Luckin Coffee’s Green Coffee Bean Processing Plant starts trial operation in Yunnan, aiming to make world-class coffee beans

Luckin Coffee recently announced the trial operation of its first green coffee bean processing plant in Baoshan City, Yunnan Province. This facility will help Luckin Coffee further optimize and improve its high-quality supply chain, strengthen its ability to control the quality of coffee beans throughout the entire production process in an effort to introduce high-quality products and experiences to its customers.

Luckin Coffee's Green Coffee Bean Processing Plant is located in Mang’ai Village, Longyang District, Baoshan City. By introducing the imported micro-water fresh fruit processing production lines from Brazil and Colombia, this Plant has world-class technology in coffee fruit processing with an annual processing capacity of up to 5,000 tons. Meanwhile, this Plant employs cutting-edge environmental-friendly treatment techniques, including self-heating, multi-effect MVR evaporative concentration water treatment technology in the water-washing process for green coffee beans, to achieve zero industrial wastewater discharge; and air-source heat pumps in the drying process of coffee beans, to significantly reduce exhaust emissions thereby integrating sustainable production principles throughout various production stages.

Also, Luckin Coffee plans to establish a training center and an operational center in this Green Coffee Bean Processing Plant, providing training lessons related to coffee planting and processing-related knowledge for Luckin Coffee’s employees and local farmers. With the establishment of this plant, Luckin Coffee will enhance its technical capabilities and research and development abilities in upstream processes of supply chain, such as coffee planting and fresh fruit processing. Additionally, this plant enables the Company to create a higher standard coffee procurement system in Yunnan, while achieving a more standardized and refined green coffee bean processing procedure.

Going forward, Luckin Coffee will continue to optimize the construction of a high-quality coffee supply chain, and continue to provide consumers with coffee products of high quality, high affordability, and high convenience, in hope of boosting the development of China’s coffee market.