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TEA
Our tea plantation is located on the region between 400-1500 meters above sea level. With volcanic soil and tropical climate, the agro climate in these regions is suitable to grow good quality tea. Our tea has been produced with good taste, color, aroma, as well as exclusive tea flavor demanded by costumer in the world market.
Each of our tea processing factories has been conducted by tight quality control through the tea tasting process which guarantees that tea in the market will have good quality based on the tea quality standard.
Our tea plantation has applied Quality Management System ISO 9001:2000 and Food Safety Management System ISO 22000:2005. The other certificates that had been obtained are Organic Certificate, Sustainable Agriculture System (Rain Forest Alliance and UTZ Certified) and Ethical Tea Partnership.
Black Tea
Our black teas are processed in either of two ways, CTC (Crush, Tear, and Curl) or orthodox. The CTC method produces leaves of fanning or dust grades that are commonly used in tea bags and are processed by machines. This method is efficient and effective for producing a better quality product from medium and lower quality leaves of consistently dark color. Orthodox processing is done either by machines or by hand. Hand processing is used for high quality teas. While the methods employed in orthodox processing differ by tea type, this style of processing results in the high quality loose tea sought by many connoisseurs.
Black Tea CTC
CTC: "Cut, tear, curl" or "Crush, tear, curl" black teas is a production method developed by William McKercher in 1930. It is consider by some as a significantly improved method of producing black tea to the orthodox through the mincing of wither tea leaves. The use of a rotovane to precut the withered tea is a common preprocessing method prior to feeding into the CTC. CTC machines then further shred the leaves from the rotavane by processing them through several series of contra-rotation rotors with surfaces patterning that cut and tear the leaves to very fine particles.
