Cargill has stated that the new facility is to ‘meet the growing demand among customers for cocoa products and to encourage the development of the Asian cocoa sector’.
The new facility will be Cargill’s first cocoa processing plant in Asia. The investment will also strengthen the company’s Indonesian cocoa sourcing network and cocoa sustainability activities.
Cargill will create approximately 200 new jobs in Indonesia, as well as additional positions in its existing R&D application centres in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, and in the company’s commercial network.
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