06 Jan 2020 --- In a bid to fuel a growing footprint of coffee shops across China, Dutch agricultural commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) and China’s Luckin Coffee have laid the foundation stone for their joint venture coffee roasting plant in Xiamen. The facility boasts an annual production capacity of 30,000 metric tons and is expected to start production by mid-2021, with an anticipated annual production capacity expansion of 40,000 metric tons set to be added in a second phase of construction.