ABout NGCI
New Guinea Coffee International Ltd has access to coffee farms located across the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. We focus on producing high quality, well-balanced specialty coffees.
NGCI is an exciting new identity. It has more than 70 years of heritage in the Papua New Guinea Coffee Industry.
Our founder has worked in the Highlands provinces for all of this time, mostly with the famous Angco coffee company.
That tenure has brought with it numerous positive relationships with plantation owners, small-holder producers, along with cooperatives and the various PNG Coffee industry regulatory bodies.
Most recently, NGCI has expanded its coffee initiative by establishing four large seedling nurseries in Kaupena, Pultimb, Poroma, and Was. These nurseries are equipped with modern infrastructure, experienced staff, and work vehicles, supporting a rotational 1,000,000 accessible and mature seedling stocks for out planting.
Our nursery at Kaupena has been further expanded, and our Was nursery is now operating at a significant scale with additional facilities. Our creed is to involve the farmers at every level.
NGCI has successfully delivered approximately 1,000,000 new and vibrant seedlings to Nipa, Tindom, Kip, and Pangia, with plans underway to implement two more nurseries at Poroma Station and East Pangia. Our key focus is on identifying and engaging groups ready to receive and plant these seedlings. NGCI provides planting oversight and ongoing supervision.
Similarly, significant rehabilitation of original coffee blocks is now well underway.
Additionally, NGCI maintains active collaboration with CIC, and Provincial Economic Units and Agricultural Unit personnel in the districts, particularly to drive consistent development across the coffee sector. Sustainable and unique specialty coffee is the result.
NGCI’s continued growth includes acquiring two washing stations at Kaupena and Poroma, and additional facilities, including a warehouse in Mt.Hagen, a dry mill in Goroka, and an export facility in Lae. With critical infrastructure across the coffee supply chain, NGCI is committed to ensuring quality and consistency from producer to export to destination.
Our Facilities
The company has recently built both wet & dry factories across the Southern Highlands Province and most importantly has close partnership with existing plantation block owners and smallholder producers.
The two new Wet processing facilities at Kaupena and Poroma,with the new state of the art Dry Factory focus strongly on producing quality coffees allied with the finish of sun and table-dried excellence.
The Warehouse in Mt Hagen also allows us to store and normalise parchment coffees at elevation, retaining their quality well into the season. Moreover, by owning and operating the dry mill, we can prepare coffees to meet client specifications that both meet and exceed PNG CIC standards. Finally from our wholly owned and dedicated independent export facility at the port of Lae, exports will be assembled, scrutinised and specifically readied for shipment.
NGCI is investing heavily into quality systems across the entire chain along with a new quality control lab in both the dry mill and export facility, along with training staff to meet and understand the requirements for Q-graders and SCA quality standards.
By owning the infrastructure along the entire supply chain, allows NGCI to manage the quality system from harvest through to export. In PNG it is very unusual, with very few fully integrated supply chain business models.
Our Mission for the Future
As a commitment to the future, NGCI in conjunction with the Southern Highlands Provincial Government, is undertaking a major campaign to plant coffee seedlings.
This initiative will greatly benefit the local economy, along with PNG’s coffee reputation and standards, whilst assisting the growing number of young people seeking an income in the rural agricultural sector of PNG.
Our Founder: Arthur Jones
NGCI founder, Sir Arthur L Jones Kt, OBE has spent more than fifty years in the PNG Coffee Industry. Arthur arrived in Goroka as a young man in the early 1970’s. He worked under the demanding and creative stewardship of the wonderful commodities entrepreneur Bob Oatley (ex Angco Pty Ltd and Rosemount Wines).
Arthur’s working life has always been coffee related.
Taking outstanding PNG Plantation lots to the Specialty market in the early 1990’s (via the well known SF specialty guru Irna Knutsen, and others), he quickly saw the great value in careful and quality production, with firm attention to processing and drying, understanding the detail required in presentation and liquor.
Arthur later became the Managing Director and part owner of ANGCO PNG which then came to be the largest exporter of PNG coffees for over thirty years. Establishing NGCI, as directed by SHP Governor William Powi is now his top priority.