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Four ways to work with us before the first container ships.
Being early is the advantage. Buyers who engage now define the specification; investors enter before the line is commissioned; cooperatives join a channel that pays for traceability.
Offtake & launch trials
Reserve volume from the first commercial lots and set the grade, packing and colour tolerance the line is configured for. We are looking for buyers willing to run a trial rather than sign a blind contract.
WHAT WE NEED — your specification, indicative volume, delivery point
Phase 1 equity & project finance
Financing the Bondoukou line, the sourcing system and the European hub. Data room, financial model and legal structure available under NDA.
WHAT WE NEED — mandate, ticket range, timeline
Equipment & engineering
Processing equipment, installation, maintenance contracts and operator training for a line sized to 50,000 tonnes at full capacity.
WHAT WE NEED — references on comparable lines in West Africa
Sourcing partnership
Registered supply into a traceable channel, with lot registration at the buying station and a direct relationship rather than a chain of intermediaries.
WHAT WE NEED — location, membership, annual volume
From first email to term sheet.
Four steps, in this order. We would rather move slowly and be audited than move fast and be doubted.
First contact
A one-page summary of who you are and what you are looking for. We answer every enquiry within two working days.
NDA and file
Company one-pager, product programme and the Phase 1 investment memorandum — capex, financial model, milestones and risks.
Site visit
Bondoukou: the site, the sourcing area and the Pyro-Green unit. We would rather you came and looked than took our word for it.
Terms
Structure, ticket size and instrument discussed case by case, against the milestones in the memorandum.
What could go wrong.
No pre-operational company is low-risk, and a site that says otherwise is telling you something about itself. These are the six risks we actually discuss internally, with what we are doing about each.
The capacity race
Côte d’Ivoire reached roughly 830,000 tonnes of installed shelling capacity in 2025. If capacity outruns kernel demand, processing margins compress and the weakest operators exit first.
Our answer. We sell the kernel ourselves in Europe rather than compete for toll-processing volume at origin.
Raw nut price volatility
The farmgate price is set annually by the regulator. A bad spread between raw nut and kernel squeezes the whole season, and working capital — not equipment — is what fails first in this industry.
Our answer. Phase 1 is financed with a working-capital line sized for a bad season, not an average one.
Commissioning and outturn
A shelling line that under-performs on whole-kernel outturn destroys the economics quietly. Broken kernels sell at a fraction of whole ones.
Our answer. The equipment supplier and the plant manager are being selected before the building is finished, on references from comparable West African lines.
Certification timing
No European retail buyer signs before food-safety certification is issued. A delay in the audit calendar delays revenue, not just paperwork.
Our answer. The certification path runs in parallel with construction, not after it. Target schemes are shared with buyers on request.
Concentration
One crop, one growing region, one processing site. A drought, a road, or a regional disruption hits everything at once.
Our answer. Acknowledged and not yet mitigated. Diversification is a Phase 2 question, and we would rather say so than dress it up.
Currency and transit
Revenue in euros, costs largely in CFA francs, and a twelve-day ocean leg that can slip on port congestion.
Our answer. The CFA franc is pegged to the euro, which removes most of the currency exposure. Transit slippage is managed with buffer stock at the European hub.
Documents available on request.
Serious enquiries get the file, not a brochure. The investment material is released under NDA.