Are you making a difference when choosing certified coffee?
What difference do you really make when choosing coffee from certified farms? A big one actually! All according to estimates that the coffee roaster Löfbergs has made.
Topics: Food, Drink
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Löfbergs’s new coffee strengthens young coffee farmers
Good coffee cannot be taken for granted as fewer and fewer young people see a future as coffee farmers. Löfbergs wants to change that. The family-owned coffee roaster presents a new coffee with beans from Ana-Maria and other young farmers in Antioquia in north-western Colombia, combined with carefully selected Arabica beans from Brazil.
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Löfbergs celebrates Swedish fika
The Swedish tradition of fika is well-known all over the world. The coffee roaster Löfbergs is now presenting an homage in the form of Fika, a light dark-roast and well-balanced ground coffee with notes of cacao. It goes especially well together with a cinnamon roll or a raw food cookie with chocolate and raspberries.
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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.
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Löfbergs gears up in Ready To
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Löfbergs establishes itself in Canada
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sustainability Report 2015/2016
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.
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Löfbergs can win global food innovation award
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.
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The world needs innovative solutions - not more coffee capsules in aluminium and plastic
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.
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Löfbergs’ Anna Nordström is Sweden's first Sensory Professional in coffee
Anna Nordström, specialty coffee manager at Löfbergs, is now the first trainer in Sweden in coffee sensory as she recently was authorized as Sensory Professional by the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE).
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Kathrine Löfberg awarded with H.M. The King's Medal
On 16 June will Kathrine Löfberg, chairman of the coffee roaster Löfbergs and a fourth-generation Löfberg, be awarded with H.M. The King's Medal for exceptional contributions within Swedish industry.
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Securing tomorrow’s morning coffee
A year ago, Kathrine Löfberg was appointed chairman of the board of the 110-year-old family company Löfbergs. She is now taking over the chairman's gavel of International Coffee Partners. From the start in 2001,ICP, has worked together with more than 30,000 farmers to make smallholder coffee farming more competitive and to improve livelihoods for coffee farmers all over the world.
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Plant based capsules challenge Nespresso®
Now everyone can enjoy good capsule coffee with a clear conscious. The coffee roaster Löfbergs launches a longed-for environmental innovation: a completely plant-based and compostable capsule that turns to compost after twelve weeks.The capsules fit all Nespresso® machines and come in five different flavours.
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The Finnish National Culinary Team challenges Sweden to a flavour fight
Now it´s Finland and the Finnish National Culinary Team's turn to match the 899 flavours that can be found in one cup of coffee, and they have decided to outclass the Swedes' menu.
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