(Business in Cameroon) - Cocoa Processing Unit (CPU) will be the name of the third cocoa processing factory in Douala for which construction was launched on April 12, 2014 in Bonaberi, the suburb of Cameroon’s economic capital. This was the news reported by Commodafrica, citing the Reuters news agency. The 16-tonne processing capacity plant will be operational in early 2015 and will cost its promoters 13 billion FCfa.

Besides cocoa powder (3,300 tonnes), CPU also plans to produce 6,904 tonnes of refined products per annum – 6,400 tonnes of cocoa liqueur and 3,000 tonnes of cocoa butter. With CPU on board, Cameroon will increase its processing capacity which is currently at 30,000 tonnes out of an annual estimated production of 230,000 tonnes.

In Cameroon’s economic capital, CPU will enter a booming cocoa processing market. Sic-Cacaos, the Swiss local subsidiary of Barry Callebaut, and Chocolateries Confiseries du Cameroun (Chococam), a subsidiary of South African company, Tiger Brands.