云南农业大学校企共建咖啡联合实验室 助推咖啡产业高质量发展

Brief (coffeeyo.com): Yunnan Agricultural University and Bühler (Wuxi) have signed an agreement to build a joint coffee laboratory — a platform for R&D, commercialization, and talent training aimed at pushing China’s coffee industry up the value chain.

Kunming, CNR News, September 22 (reporter Zhao Beibei) — On September 21, Yunnan Agricultural University and Bühler (Wuxi) Commercial Co., Ltd. held a signing ceremony for a coffee joint-laboratory project. The two sides will build a high-level innovation platform integrating technological R&D, achievement commercialization, and talent cultivation around the joint laboratory, injecting scientific momentum into China’s coffee industry as it climbs toward the mid-to-high end of the value chain.

Li Yonghe, president of Yunnan Agricultural University, said the school will focus joint technical breakthroughs on coffee roasters and small intelligent roasting equipment, concentrating on four fronts — key technology breakthroughs, achievement commercialization, industry-education talent cultivation, and standards-and-brand co-building — to fully support the laboratory’s construction and operation. It will integrate resources such as key laboratories, industry colleges, sci-tech yards, and sci-tech service teams, form cross-disciplinary groups, and provide testing scenarios and application space, striving for breakthroughs in key technologies and equipment manufacturing.

Xia Haiyang, general manager of Bühler’s Greater China Food Business Unit, said he hopes to use this cooperation as an opportunity to combine coffee-processing technology with Yunnan’s coffee resources and build the joint laboratory into a platform for technical breakthroughs, achievement commercialization, and industry-education integration.

Yunnan is the core coffee-producing region of China, and coffee is a bright business card of the province’s characteristic high-plateau modern agriculture. Yunnan Agricultural University was born of and thrives on agriculture, and keeps expanding its educational horizons through the coffee industry. Anchoring the positioning that “Yunnan coffee represents China,” the university earnestly implements the provincial Party committee and government’s decisions on developing high-plateau characteristic agriculture, and — guided and supported by the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs — advances education, science, and talent in an integrated way in close response to the high-quality development needs of Yunnan’s coffee industry.

Yunnan Agricultural University is the lead unit of the national “coffee full-chain innovation integration application scenario,” and has secured provincial platforms including the Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Coffee, the university coffee collaborative innovation center, and the international joint R&D center for green coffee-industry development. Bühler Group, with its leading global coffee-processing technology and industrial resources, brings internationally advanced roasting, grinding, and intelligent-production technologies into the laboratory, building a complete innovation chain of “basic research — technical breakthroughs — industrial application,” and driving Yunnan coffee’s transformation from “raw-material output” to “value creation.” This signing marks a new stage in which the two sides’ cooperation moves from processing-R&D exchange to the substantive construction of the joint coffee laboratory, with a sharper direction and clearer goals.

After the ceremony, the attending guests visited the joint coffee laboratory for an on-site inspection and held in-depth discussions on the next steps of R&D cooperation.

Liang Miao, director of the Processing Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs’ Rural Industry Development Department; An Baoliang, deputy director of the Rural Industry Service Division at the Rural Social Undertakings Development Center; and Lai Yiyong, vice director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, attended the signing ceremony.

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