Ivoirienne de Noix de Cajou

INCajou - Ivoirienne de Noix de Cajou is a HACCP certified cashew processing company based in Ivory Coast, with an installed raw nut processing capacity of up to 9.000t per year and a current employee count exceeding 300. One out of two raw cashew nuts come from Africa, with Ivory Coast being the worlds largest exporter, yet only 10% of cashew kernels are processed on the continent. Traditionally, raw cashew nuts are exported from Africa across the globe to Vietnam and India for processing and shipped back again to Europe and the United States for consumption. This process impacts product quality, dilutes traceability and leaves an undesirable carbon footprint, creating a disjointed market that has privileged pricing over sustainability. INCajou seeks to disrupt this status-quo alongside other budding African processors by breaking the all-too-familiar African cycle of exporting un-beneficiated raw materials. Our business model consists of buying raw cashew nuts from local farme...