Paul Ries is exporter of Ethiopian coffee since 1885, and is also one of the founding members of Ethiopian coffee exporters` association. At the beginning Paul Ries was only engaged in export of sundried coffee but in the early 90`s has invested in a new washed coffee peeling and grading machineries. This department, to meet with the European coffee purchasers` request, with coffee cupping and grading laboratory section.
In order to increase the quality and quantity of exportable coffee relatively full mechanized technology was employed for cleaning of both washed and sundried coffees:
For cleaning sundried coffee, important elements of coffee cleaning and grading machineries such as: