Anna Nordström – with a license to trend spot
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.
Löfbergs awarded for its sustainability work
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.
Löfbergs reaches its climate goals with Bio LPG
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.
Löfbergs's Anna Nordström is truly one in a hundred
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 opts for environmentally friendly plastic
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.
Bringing out a new generation of coffee farmers
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.
Löfbergs first with new climate-smart hybrid
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.