date:May 08, 2013
Cargill has broken ground on a U$100 million investment to construct a cocoa processing facility in Gresik, in the East Java region of Indonesia. The company said that the new facility is to meet the growing demand amongst customers for cocoa products and to encourage the development of the Asian cocoa sector.
The new facility will be Cargills first cocoa processing plant in Asia and demonstrates the companys commitment to develop and grow the Asian cocoa industry, it said. The investment will