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Mission Machinery Completes Dual Coffee Bean Cleaning Plant Installation in Mekelle, Ethiopia

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2026-04-08

Mission Machinery completes two coffee bean cleaning plants in Mekelle, Ethiopia – 5 and 10 tons per hour. CEO Charlie Chan and Mr. Zhao attended the factory completion in April 2026.

Mekelle, Ethiopia – April 8, 2026 – A new coffee processing factory just went live with two cleaning lines from Henan Mission Machinery. One handles 5 tons per hour. The other does 10 tons per hour. Both arrived in Ethiopia back in December 2025, three months after the customer placed the order.

Pre-cleaning and destoning units of Mission's coffee bean cleaning line in Ethiopia.

The customer is a brand-new processor in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray. They found Mission Machinery through a regular Google search—no ads, just the organic results. That led them to the product page of Mission Machinery's coffee bean cleaning solution, then a phone call, then a deal.

By early April 2026, the customer’s factory building was finally done. That’s when Charlie Chan, Mission’s CEO, and Mr. Zhao, one of the co-founders, boarded a plane to Ethiopia. They didn’t have to go. But they wanted to see the lines run in person and shake hands with the team who trusted them with a six-figure purchase.

Optical color sorting machine removing defective beans at the Mekelle factory.

What do these two lines actually do? They clean green coffee beans from start to finish. Stones come out. Husks come out. Ropes, leaves, discolored beans—all removed. The process runs through nine stages: pre-cleaning by a drum cleaner, destoning by a stone remover, hulling by the coffee huller, polishing by the coffee polisher, grading by the precision coffee bean grading machine, gravity separation via the gravity separator, color sorting through the optical color sorter, manual checking, and packaging. By the end, you’ve got export-ready coffee that meets international standards.

Automated packaging station of the 10TPH coffee cleaning plant.

Ethiopia is Africa’s biggest coffee producer. Last fiscal year, the country earned $2.65 billion from coffee exports. This year, the target is $3 billion. To hit that number, more processors need equipment like this—machinery that turns raw, uncleaned beans into premium, value-added product.

Mission Machinery has now installed over 40 production lines across China, Ethiopia, Uganda, and other markets. The company doesn’t just sell machines. They send their founders to Mekelle when a customer finishes a factory. That’s the difference.