She is one of the greatest coffee experts in Europe and has won medals at the Swedish Cupping Championship and the World Cup Tasters Championship. By day, she is working as a Specialty Coffee Manager at the coffee roaster Löfbergs, where one has to know the latest in the coffee world. Here are Anna Nordström’s thoughts about the hottest trends right now.
The coffee roaster Löfbergs is making big investments in the rapidly growing segment Ready To and is starting a new business area with focus on On the go products. At the same time, the company is planning for several exciting news.
Löfbergs is once again being acknowledged for its sustainability work. This time, Scandic is handing out its sustainability award to the family-owned coffee roaster. Löfbergs’s sustainability manager Eva Eriksson received the Scandic Sustainability Award 2018 at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
The roasting has been a great sustainability challenge for a long time, and the coffee roaster Löfbergs has actively been working to find an alternative to conventional LPG. Löfbergs is now taking a huge step in the right direction. By blending in Bio LPG, Löfbergs will reach its goal of reducing its climate impact with at least 40 per cent by 2020.
Those who manage to gather 100 points within the most esteemed education system in the coffee business are few. Anna Nordström at the coffee roaster Löfbergs is now one of them. And she has the piece of paper to show for it in her office in Karlstad, Sweden: a unique diploma from The Speciality Coffee Association (SCA).
Löfbergs continues to grow outside Sweden's borders. The family-owned coffee roaster is now taking the step into the North American market and forms a subsidiary in Canada.
Löfbergs was the first to remove aluminium from the coffee packaging in Sweden in 1993. The company now wants to replace the oil-based plastic with a plant-based alternative. The family-owned coffee roaster is therefore trying a new packaging mainly made of sugar canes. If the tests are successful, Löfbergs hopes to be able to replace all fossil plastic in their packaging by 2020.
The world's coffee farmers are getting older and older. At the same time, fewer young people see a future in coffee. That makes one of the greatest challenges of the business is to get more young women & men to grow coffee. The Swedish coffee roaster Löfbergs takes this as a starting point in an investment that will improve the conditions and the development opportunities for young coffee farmers.
It is strong as an elephant, quiet as a mouse, and it reduces carbon emissions with up to 92 per cent. Scania's new hybrid made its first appearance in Sweden today. The maiden journey took place in Karlstad, where it transports coffee between Löfbergs's roasting house in central Karlstad and the new warehouse in Välsviken.
More certified coffee, reduced energy consumption, increased gender equality. That's a way to summarize the sustainability development 2015/2016 for the Löfbergs Group. Of course, much more happened, this you read about in our new sustainability report.
The coffee roaster Löfberg´s ready to drink concept ICE and their plant based Nespresso® compatible capsules have been selected to be a part of the SIAL Innovation Selection 2016 - the world's largest food innovation exhibition.
Consumers in Sweden will in a few days meet a new product on the shop shelves: Löfbergs's new plant-based coffee capsule that can be used in the Nespresso® system and thrown away together with food waste. And that naturally contains really good, selected certified coffee.
