29 Mar 2019 --- Barry Callebaut has inaugurated its new state-of-the-art processing unit at its Zone 4C Société Africaine de Cacao (SACO) plant in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The new grinding unit, which is part of a CHF55 million (US$55 million) investment, will increase SACO’s cocoa bean processing capacity with over 40 percent by 2022. Once the processing unit is fully operational, Barry Callebaut will employ an additional workforce of 45 people and create 120 indirect jobs.