RE: Cashewnuts30 Mar 2021 10:22
Monring Scooby although you might find at times that DKL is a shaggy dog story I think the company do have the technical know how to manage Cashew Nuts production. There are some read across strategies that they have learnt from CPO production which may mitigate some of the wrong choices they have made at times. I suspect the company are already in test production but officially- always with the caveat that unless 4 weird kids and a talking dog turns up- then we should start in June 2021.
In fact the Cashew production is no big mystery unfortunately. It is all in the RNS.
"Under a phased development programme, the plant at Tiebissou will commence production at an initial RCN processing capacity of 10,000 tonnes per annum. Within 12-24 months, production at the plant is expected to increase by 50% to 15,000tpa at no extra capital outlay by increasing the number of shifts of employees from two to three per day. From this level, it is envisaged cash flows generated by the plant will largely fund a doubling in capacity to 30,000tpa. The Directors believe the Cashew Project, which will capitalise on a shortfall in cashew processing capacity in Côte d'Ivoire, one of the world's largest cashew growers, will be cash flow generative at the initial processing rate of 10,000 tonnes per annum. "