CÉMOI opens new cocoa and chocolate expertise center

French chocolatier CÉMOI has inaugurated its new laboratory dedicated to cocoa in Perpignan. The event took place in the presence of Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, the Minister of Agriculture of Ivory Coast, and René Bidal, the Prefect of the department Pyrenees Orientales. This new high-tech equipment revealed by CÉMOI is part of the innovation strategy of the Group, which plans to raise its Research and Development budget by 50% until 2016.

The independent family Group, that masters the entire cocoa network, from the cultivation of cocoa up to the manufacturing of the chocolate bar, has just opened its new expertise center of 120 m2. The new CÉMOI laboratory is dedicated entirely to the research of cocoa products (beans, cocoa paste, cake and butter). It is part of the innovation process of the Group, which is always looking for new solutions to better answer to the needs of its clients, like conceiving new products that integrate the aromatic specificities of cocoa and its varied origins. In this way, CÉMOI develops each year over 2,000 new recipes.

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