Contractors involved with Germany’s coffee capsule plant Nestlé collaborates with coffee farmers with the help of Rainforest Alliance and 4C, in order to secure the necessary raw materials for the plant. The building consumes less water and energy. The plant’s hall bearing structure is made of wood and the interior finishing uses environment friendly solvents. "Europe accounts for 80% of sales of the machines." The plant is built according to the latest transparency and sustainability criteria and meets the international Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Standard. Sustainability of Nestlé’s coffee capsule plant in Schwerin It employs approximately 450 personnel and ten trainees and is expected to produce two billion capsules a year, when fully operational. It processes approximately 120 capsules/s 7,000 capsules/min 430,000 capsules/h or ten million capsules/day. The plant has 12 production lines, which can process 60t of raw coffee a day. Processing capacity of the German Nescafé plant The capsules are sold in Germany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The beans are further roasted in the machine, before being grinded and then filled into different capsules for packaging. Coffee processing at Nescafé’s Dolce Gusto plantĭuring the first stage of processing, the coffee beans will be collected, composited and cleaned by the workers. Construction began with the official groundbreaking ceremony in May 2013. The preliminary design and basic construction of the plant was started in May 2012, whereas the cornerstone laying ceremony was held a year later. The plant’s construction involved the use of approximately 36,000m³ of concrete and 7,000t of steel. The gross floor area of the plant is 50,000m² (538,196ft²), which is the equivalent of seven soccer fields. The Nescafé German plant was built on a 55ha site, measuring 259m x 206m, in Schwerin. "The Schwerin plant is the third Nescafé Dolce Gusto Coffee Capsule plant in Europe." The investment on the Schwerin plant is not only the largest in Germany but also the biggest one in Europe by Nestlé to 2013.
Nestlé owns similar plants in Tutbury, UK, and Girona, Spain. The Schwerin plant is the third Nescafé Dolce Gusto Coffee Capsule plant in Europe. The machine allows consumers to make 30 varieties of hot and cold coffees, including cappuccino, macchiato, chococino, cappuccino ice, espresso, lungo and classico decaffeinato. The total cost of the project was €220m ($293.65m), €22.5m ($30m) of which was a state subsidy.ĭolce Gusto is a coffee machine system that was introduced by Nestlé in 2006.
It produces single-dose coffee capsules, which are used in the Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee machines.
The new plant is located in Schwerin, the capital city of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany.
It is the biggest production centre of Nescafé Dolce Gusto in Europe. Nestlé Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the Swiss food group Nestlé, opened a new Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee capsule plant in Germany in September 2014. The $293.65m factory is the third Nescafé Dolce Gusto Coffee Capsule plant in Europe. The Dolce Gusto allows consumers to make 30 varieties of hot and cold coffees. Groundbreaking for the Dolce Gusto plant in Schwerin took place in 2013. The gross floor area of the plant is equivalent to that of seven soccer fields.