The results before tax achieved by the Azkoyen Group in the first quarter of this year were 644 million pesetas, with an increase of 12.2% on those recorded in the same period of last year.

The forthcoming arrival of the euro has influenced both the sales and profits recorded with the highest volume on the domestic market.
It is the first coffee roasting plant in Spain to obtain this certification, which was pointed out by the General Manager of Azkoyen Comercial, S.A., Blanca Altuzarra, in her words of thanks and congratulation to all the staff for their efforts and the environmental culture that they had demonstrated. From the roasting plant, built on a 5,000 square metre plot, coffee is distributed to the domestic market.

The certification, achieved in less than a year, confirms that the different groups involved in the production process (suppliers, subcontractors, staff and management) are participating in better and more efficient use of resources, and generating and producing the minimum amount of waste, and achieving the maximum reduction of atmospheric emissions.

Situated on the Talluntxe industrial estate, near the Noain airport, the Azkoyen Comercial roasting plant is one of the most modern in Europe and required an investment of more than 600 million pesetas. It has 30 silos, with a capacity of more than one hundred tonnes, two drum roasters and three packaging lines capable of packaging 20 packets per minute. Ten people work at the plant.

Azkoyen Comercial, S.A., is one of the three business units, with autonomy in terms of assets, finance and management, into which the Azkoyen Group has reorganized its various industrial and sales companies. It recognises the importance of the environment in its general activities and environmental policy is another of the policies included in its overall strategic policy.

Four computers enable all processes to be monitored step by step
The roasting plant is focused around roasting and packaging natural and dark-roasted coffee. The plant does everything from receiving and storing the raw coffee beans to roasting, storing, grinding, packaging and shipping them.

The process, which is fully automatic and ensures that the final product is uniform and consistent, is constantly monitored from four computers, which follow every step and the operation of all the silos and machines: from the unloading and weighing of the raw coffee to the roasting areas.

The roasting plant and all of its systems ensure that both the product and the process are completely clean. The noisy areas have been sealed (compressors, cleaning machines, etc.) as has the raw materials store in the production area. Two postcombustion ovens and their corresponding cyclones ensure that the atmospheric emissions are clean.