Shipping And Milling Heroes
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COFFEE IS A SUPPLY CHAIN WITH MANY UNSUNG HEROES.
Let us introduce you to a few of our trusted employees, who play a vital role in getting our coffee from the Farms in Guatemala to your roastery. One of our many supply chain champions in Guatemala is Walter, one of our truck drivers who brings coffee from Huehuetenango to the mill on a weekly basis - despite the early mornings, long hours, and narrow winding roads, he takes tremendous pride in his work, once telling our director Nadine, “This coffee tastes so good because I transported it!” We do, of course, agree :)
Then there’s Santos and Wilder, the wet and dry mill managers. Santos knows the work inside and out - he’s been working there for three decades. Milling micro-lots is uniquely challenging and requires careful cleaning of the machinery between the lots, detailed documentation, and quality control to ensure that each lot is processed to its best potential, all done by Wilder and his team.
Milling is complete when the parchment layer is removed from the coffee - and it goes through a size sorter and the famous density sorter known as Oliver. The coffee then drops via the electronic color sorter - critical for minimizing the number of defects in a lot. Each coffee is then sealed in a Grain-pro bag, and then placed in a marked jute bag. The bags are then carried into the containers and organized neatly by our strong mill workers. We wave goodbye to the coffees leaving our facilities toward either the ports on the Atlantic or Pacific Coasts.
Another key part in our operations is our logistics team, who book containers and makes sure we have all the paperwork and permits to export coffee. Ensuring the coffees get to the port in a timely manner and prepare all the necessary documents before the containers arrive at their destination.
Here’s to the milling and shipping pros that make our mission possible!