Local Coffee Exporter Partners with American Firm

Apr 17 , 2021


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A family-owned business with an average annual coffee export volume of around 2,500tn, is now a country representative for GrainPro Africa, a subsidiary of US-based GrainPro Inc, after the two signed a partnership agreement last week. Nardos Coffee Export will be the official and sole distributor of GrainPro's hermetic packaging products in Ethiopia. Hermetic packaging products are plastic airtight and waterproof bags used to protect and preserve agricultural products during storage and shipping. The partnership with GrainPro, founded in 1992 in Concord, Massachusetts, aims to address challenges faced by smallholder farmers in post-harvest storage and exporters of the coffee beans during shipping.


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