Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has been in Ghana since 2005 when the company opened a branch office. The Company has been active in West Africa since 1997 and has a cocoa processing plant in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; bean collection and cleaning facilities in Abidjan, Anyama, and San Pedro, Côte d’Ivoire; and a joint venture with Usicam in Douala, Cameroon.

The facility is comprised of a bean warehouse, a processing plant, and a finished goods warehouse that sits on a 75,000-square-meter site. The new plant processes cocoa beans into cocoa liquor for use in chocolate. Construction of the Kumasi plant started in January 2008, and the facility began processing beans in July 2009.

We at Collins Kwakye Company Ltd are pleased that ADM has chosen us to build its new cocoa processing plant. Indeed our work was much commended by the His Excellency, Professor John E. A. Mills (of blessed memory), Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Nana Akyeampimhene; Mr. Tony Fofie, chief executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board; and John Rice, ADM executive vice president Commercial and Production.