Cooxupé diversifies and bets on cosmetics

The result of a partnership between the Regional Cooperative of coffee growers in Guaxupé (Cooxupé) and the Aqia chemical industries, the Aqia Coffee joint venture for production of cosmetics from the by-products of coffee.
Launched yesterday (25) in São Paulo, this is the new bet of the largest cooperative in the sector in the world. In principle will be supplied oil, pie and coffee, toast pie from 100 bags monthly commodity.
"Our revenue in this project will be very small, around r $ 50 thousand per month, but we believe there will be a wide acceptance of these products on the market forward," says the journalists the President of Cooxupé, Carlos Alberto Paulino. In addition, the cooperative will still have an profitable participation in sales of cosmetics, established for an exclusive contract.
Paulino account that the company took about five years of work with research to identify the properties of the coffee that could be used in the cosmetic business. For both, there was an average investment of $ 5 million.
On the other side, the President of Aqia chemistry, Albana Parvin, highlights that there is an investment plan until 2020, whose first amount for 2015 reaches R $ 18 million.
The joint venture Aqia Coffee, will have seven components, which can be used in the cosmetic industry, pharmaceutical and food.
Business acumen
During the event were also present companies interested in the international release of the products. The partners of Joy importer and exporter, Claudia Ribeiro and Andrea Saad.
"We're testing the market out there and this kind of free of certain cosmetic chemicals seems quite innovative. Europe has great interest. We want to take advantage of our international contacts ", say the executives.
However, we still have definitions related to costs for shipments, in fact.
Brazilian crop
The President of Cooxupé confirmed that the crop of Arabica coffee in 2015/2016 on the cooperative's area will be smaller. "There will be a crop failure, but it's still hard to tell how much will be the fall".
According to him, because of the less favourable climate the percentage of grains kids grew up. The crop of Arabica grain 22% presents call 17/18 sieve, more valued. In previous years, coffee with this classification represented 30% of the crop.
"The main problem was not the dry, but very high temperatures in December last year and January this year," he explains. Even in areas of the cerrado, where there is irrigation, was identified the problem.