In house :
To be able to guarantee consistent high quality products, we keep the following essential parts of tea trading in our office.
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Purchasing directly at the source |
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Close contact with our business-partners in the countries of origin |
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Tasting and comparing samples at purchase, before shipment and arrival at our warehouse. |
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Supply Chain Control |
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Product evaluation of: taste, colour, smell, cup, dry leaf, infused leaf. |
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Custom made tea blending |
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Density measurement |
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Market research |
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Global sourcing |
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Nowadays sustainable trade is a hot issue. Broektea Rotterdam BV fully supports this principal and is willing to help to achieve more equity in international trade. Moreover we acknowledge the demand for healthy organic teas & infusions.
Therefore we are proud to be:
- Fairtrade/ FLO certified. (for more info, please check: www.fairtrade.net )
- Skal certified. (Skal is the inspection body for the organic production in the Netherlands, for more info, please check: www.skal.nl).
- Utz certified. (for more info, please check www.utzcertified.org)
External :
We realize that excellency can’t be achievend just by ourselves. Therefore we have chosen to co-operate with some reputable institutes in the world of tea.
Most of our stock is stored at Steinweg/Handelsveem in Rotterdam. (ISO 9001: 2000)
www.steinweg.com
From here we can provide you with the following facilities:
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Warehousing: Storage capacity up to 3.000 tons of tea |
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Packaging: papersacks, carton boxes, bigbags. All pallatized & shrinkwrapped before transport. |
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Processing: Tea blending (batches of up to 25 metric tons), sifting, cleaning. |
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Certified weighing: able to issue sworn weight certificates. |
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Every handling is done according to the HACCP standards.
We regularly test our teas at the labaratory on:
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Ash content |
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Level of pesticide residues |
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Humidity |
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Microbiology analyses |
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