April 30th, 2024

Sailing freighter 'Tres Hombres' unloads cocoa crop in Amsterdam

After a long and arduous journey of nearly six months, the sailing freighter the Tres Hombres is welcomed with open arms ...

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April 13th, 2021

Sailing ship the Tres Hombres at anchor again at Chocolatemakers in Amsterdam

After a long but successful journey of almost 6 months, the sailing ship Tres Hombres has returned to Chocolatemakers ...

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February 9th, 2021

Amsterdam's one and only chocolate factory: Chocolatemakers

Amsterdam is still the largest cocoa port in the world. But making chocolate itself? That happens almost nowhere anymore. At Chocolatemakers ...

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October 8th, 2019

First visitable chocolate factory of the Netherlands in largest cocoa port in the world!

Chocolatemakers makes powerful chocolate from bean to bar 100% in-house 5 October 2019 - Chocolatemakers today opens its first ...

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September 18th, 2019

The most sustainable chocolate factory in the world's largest cocoa port

Chocolatemakers makes powerful chocolate from bean to bar 100% in-house What started as a boyhood dream for Enver and Rodney of ...

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June 21st, 2019

Cocoa farmers take matters into their own hands!

On 31 May, in cooperation with Chocolatemakers, the farmers' cooperative Norandino opened an organic cocoa processing plant in Piura, in the north of ...

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June 7th, 2019

Celebrate with us the arrival of the new harvest of Tres Hombres cocoa

In July, the sailing ship Tres Hombres arrives with our new harvest of cocoa from the Dominican Republic. Be part of the ...

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December 12th, 2018

Fairtrade raises the minimum price

Good news! From 1 October 2019, Fairtrade will increase the minimum price for cocoa from $2,000 to $2,400 and the Fairtrade ...

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November 30th, 2018

Jesper (13) and Julian (14) build their own clean future

THE FIRST PAGE OF THE NEW FACTORY Jesper and Julian, the sons of the founders of Chocolatemakers, have set up the ...

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April 24th, 2017

The making of... Chocolatemakers Lecture package

As you may have already seen, Chocolatemakers has had a real Speaking Package for 2 months now. This beautiful package was created by ...

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December 13th, 2016

Chef Specials tasting | Chocriti

Time for our third Chef Special already, and the first "Tasting"! Last month, several professionals visited our factory for a ...

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November 8th, 2015

The 1930s burner works!

YEAH! Such an exciting day today, but it works! Our burner (ballroast) from 1930. A fantastic machine! And so cool ...

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October 1st, 2015

Who is Daan?

This is Daan Kollmer (31). Industrial designer / Engineer / Machine designer and builder. What do you do in the chocolate ...

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March 30th, 2015

The crowdfunding for the one and only chocolate factory is closed

The crowdfunding for the one and only chocolate factory is closed! And with amazing success, we can say. Over 73,102 euros ...

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February 20th, 2015

Joint venture with farmers' cooperative in Peru

Another milestone for the Chocolatemakers and the Norandino farmers' cooperative. Last month, we set up a joint venture with ...

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March 27th, 2013

Chocolate Conching

Conching (rolling) is one of the crucial steps in the chocolate production process. This traditional process was discovered in 1879 by ...

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