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Colombia’s Coffee Logistics Arm Plans Refrigerated Silos and Industrial Centers for 2026

By: Diana Delgado, Contractor

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Colombia’s Coffee Logistics Arm Plans Refrigerated Silos and Industrial Centers for 2026

Bogotá (Coffee Network) —The logistics arm of the Colombian coffee growers federation  Almacafé plans to almost triple its investment in 2026 to as much as COP 60 billion ($15.8 million) as it undergoes a major logistical restructuring that includes the expansion of refrigerated silos and new industrialized coffee centers, according to general manager Iván Galindo Hernández.

The company, which historically focused on storing and threshing coffee, is evolving into the logistics arm of the National Federation of Coffee Growers (FNC). Its new mandate includes determining where coffee should be stored, threshed, and refrigerated across Colombia. This year, Almacafé invested COP 20.9 billion.

For 2026, the company expects to invest an additional COP 35 billion in infrastructure aimed at roasting and threshing coffee for export. This facility will be located in the Caribbean port city of Santa Marta.

 

Refrigerated Silos

A key part of the restructuring includes building and relocating refrigerated silos.

Almacafé will invest COP 7 billion ($1.84 million) next year to construct a new refrigerated silo in Armenia, in the central department of Quindío. The facility will have a total capacity of 1,000 tonnes per year, distributed across ten 100-tonne silos, and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2026.

“This new silo in Armenia will store parchment coffee so that it can later be processed and exported as a value-added product,” Galindo said during the 94th FNC Coffee Summit in Bogotá.

The company aims to shorten the national coffee supply chain by eliminating inefficiencies in transportation. New refrigerated silos are planned for Popayán, Pitalito, Armenia, and Santa Marta.

Almacafé also plans to launch a silo in Popayán in 2026 with a 2,500-tonne annual capacity and an investment of COP 7 billion. The refrigerated silos in Santa Marta and Pitaliton are expected to come online in 2027. Currently, Colombia’s refrigerated silos are located in distant high-altitude areas such as Pamplona (Norte de Santander), Soacha, and the Páramo de Las Letras. These sites offer naturally cool temperatures but require trucks to travel hundreds of kilometers, creating logistical bottlenecks.

Galindo noted that coffee from Ocaña (Norte de Santander) currently travels 593 km south to Páramo de Letras. Under the new plan, parchment coffee will instead travel north to Santa Marta for threshing and refrigeration.

Industrialized Centers

Almacafé will open five industrialized coffee centers in Antioquia, Boyacá, Tolima, Quindío, and Nariño in 2026, requiring an investment of COP 5 billion ($1.3 million).

Two weeks ago, the company inaugurated its third industrialized center, Entre Árboles, in Bucaramanga (Santander). The facility has a monthly milling capacity of 1,000 sacks and a roasting capacity of 22 tons. It aims to position Santander as a leader in sustainable, shade-grown coffees with strong commitments to environmental conservation and sensory quality.

The center features a cupping lab, training areas, and technical assistance services, forming a full innovation ecosystem.

Entre Árboles joins earlier centers in Neiva (Huila) and Manizales (Caldas). The FNC plans to expand the network to as many as 15 centers, enabling coffee growers to access milling, grading, roasting, and packaging services in one location.

“In these centers we offer green coffee threshing, packing, roasting, tasting courses, and barismo. They have become regional knowledge hubs,” Galindo said.

In 2024, Almacafé invested COP 2.3 billion in launching two regional centers.

Threshing Capacity Expansion

Almacafé is also increasing its national threshing capacity. It has boosted capacity in Pasto, Santa Marta (by 50%), Pitalito, Manizales, and Armenia (by 30%). By the end of 2025, the company’s total threshing capacity is projected to reach 195,000 bags per month, up from 170,000. Almacafé’s goal is to thresh 25% of all coffee produced in Colombia.

Shift Toward Big Bags

International clients increasingly prefer 1,000-kg big bags over traditional 70-kg sacks due to cost efficiencies.

“Big bags use forklifts instead of coffee crews,” Galindo said. Armenia’s threshing operation has already transitioned to big bags, and all Almacafé threshers are expected to do so next year.

Big bags are loaded and unloaded using cranes at ports, sharply reducing labor costs. Almacafé aims for at least 20% of the federation’s coffee exports to use big bags.

“The 70-kg bags will begin to disappear in Colombia, as they already have in much of the world,” Galindo noted.

Dios Mío Coffee

Dios Mío Coffee, the brand launched two years ago by Colombian actress Sofía Vergara in partnership with the FNC, is now sold in 1,600 Walmart stores in the United States.

“This is a milestone because it is the first 100% Colombian coffee sold in Walmart,” Galindo said.

The coffee is processed and threshed at Almacafé facilities and shipped directly from Colombia to U.S. retailers and consumers—an approach Galindo says is more cost-efficient than maintaining inventory in the United States.

Coffee Capsules

Almacafé entered the coffee capsule market in October. It is now producing 300,000 capsules for its sister company, the Juan Valdez coffee chain. The company is also producing capsules for Café La Fonda, while the Colombian brand Amor Perfecto is preparing to enter the capsule segment.

By Diana Delgado

 

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