DMCC Begins Construction of Coffee Center
From left: Matthew Pang, director MCH Commodity Trading; DMCC executives Gautam Sashittal, c.e.o. and executive chairman Ahmed Bin Sulayen with Wu Zhonghong, deputy general manager Yunnan State Farms Agribusiness Group, China.
The Dubai Multi-Commodities Centre (DMCC) is constructing a 7,500 sq.ft. temperature-controlled coffee facility that will offer world-class infrastructure and services for storage, processing, warehousing, and delivery of coffee to precise specifications. The center will handle process up to 20,000 metric tons of green coffee annually, with an estimated trade value of $100 million a year.
The DMCC Coffee Center is due to open in 2018.Attending the November groundbreaking were Matthew Pang director of Mega Capital Halal (MCH) and Wu Zhonghong, deputy general manager of Yunnan State Farms Agribusiness, a major coffee supplier in China contracting for services at the center.
DMCC executive chairman Ahmed Bin Sulayem, said “There are few things more satisfactory than when a partnership of this scale with MCH and Yunnan State Farms Group comes to fruition, especially when it benefits our trading community here in Dubai as well as connecting right into China’s ambitious trade program and corridor, Belt and Road.”