Luckin Coffee's new roasting complex in Kunshan, Jiangsu province. All images taken from a Luckin Coffee press release.
Chinese coffee roasting and retail giant Luckin Coffee opened a massive $120 million roasting plant in Kunshan in April 2024.
Located between the cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, the new roasting facility in Jiangsu province has approximately 53,000 square meters (573,000 square feet) of indoor space, with the capacity to produce around 30,000 tons of coffee annually, according to the company.
The facility is Luckin's second major production roaster in China, joining a roughly 45,000-square-meter (480,000-square-foot) factory in Fujian that opened in 2021. The company, which also recently opened a coffee processing center verde in Yunnan province, states that the combined roasters give the company the capacity to produce more than 45 thousand tons of coffee per year, or approximately 750 thousand 60-kilo bags of coffee.
To put that number into perspective, it's roughly equivalent to the total amount of coffee produced annually in Kenya or El Salvador, according to the latest reports from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service .
“This will allow the company to respond more quickly and accurately to consumer demands, as well as quickly deliver high-quality coffee beans to its stores nationwide,” Luckin Coffee said in a company announcement about the new opening.
Luckin Coffee currently has more than 16,000 stores across China, according to the company, making it the largest national coffee chain, ahead of competitors like Starbucks (approximately 6,800 stores, as of end of 2023) and Cotti Coffee (approximately 7,000 stores, as of March 2024). In Q3 2023, Luckin Coffee opened an average of 16.5 stores per day .
China overtook the United States as the world's largest coffee shop market last year, according to a report from the World Coffee Portal.
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