Automated Tea Factory
A robot palletizing tea at the Transworld Specialty Tea Center factory in Zhejiang
Zhejiang Tea Group recently opened the Transworld Specialty Tea Center, a modern processing facility with a combined capacity of well over 1,000 metric tons of green tea (including matcha), black tea, oolong, dark tea, and flavored teas.
The center is nestled between Hangzhou’s West Lake and Jing Shan Monastery – both significant and historic locations for Chinese tea culture. Transworld’s new facility integrates agriculture, automated tea manufacture, and tea cultural education.
It is best known for its fully automated production line with robot labor – one of the first in China. Transworld was the first USDA certified organic tea garden in China, and the first USDA organic matcha producing facility. The surrounding 200 hectares of tea fields include a Sino-Austrian demonstration organic tea garden of 33 hectares.
ZJT is China’s largest tea exporter and the world’s largest green tea exporter. ZJT operates internationally, with operations across China and offices around the world to serve international tea brands. Firsd Tea, the company’s US office, is located in New Jersey.
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