The path of Cupffee – from a home stove to a factory
In the next five years we will pursue a capacity of nearly 10 million cups per month, said the inventor of edible cups and machines for their production Miroslav Zapryanov
Get to the factory from your home stove. This is the true story of Miroslav Zapryanov, CEO of Cupffee and inventor of edible coffee cups, which are already produced in the industrial zone in Thrace. “My wife’s first Cupffee cup was born in the brand new cooker, and the idea itself has existed since 2004,” said the majority owner of the company today with 59% of the shares. He set up his own factory with three other partners and three investors. After the first cup in the home oven, today the company officially started working, with the capacity to produce 2.5 million products per month.
“The idea is from the school years. It seemed very interesting to us to eat the cup from which you drank your coffee “, Zapryanov noted. After the idea and the home stove, he invested all his personal funds to design and finance four prototype machines, which continue trial and error to improve the recipe and technology. “With the fourth machine we even started our first official production, in a small confectionery of 36 square meters – 100 cups a day. The first investment of our investors was in a world-famous Austrian company to produce the new equipment, which is now in the factory. I dare say that we are the only company in the world with such a machine, which we together with their engineers designed. The machine is fully automated. The capacity of the factory is currently 2.5 million glasses per month. We plan to install and put into operation three more such lines in the next five years, with a capacity of nearly 10 million cups per month. There is a market for this. In partnership with Cupffee are big companies such as Lavazza, Etіhad, Mancheѕter Cіty, Lіdl, Economіѕt, Natіonal Geographіc, Wall Ѕtreet Јournal, H&M and others. With our glasses events make editions economist with The Wall Street Journal. It is expected that soon the glasses at OMV gas stations will be Cupffee “, said Zapryanov.
He stressed that all technologies and recipes are patented at the European level and are already expanding worldwide. According to the company’s business plan, the invested funds must be returned within five years.
“We employ the best people for our technology, but they can’t help but be the best, because they are the only ones. Our team is 30 people in the factory. We train them from the very beginning, because nowhere have they had the opportunity to produce such a product. We require extreme precision in compliance with the technology. Most of the raw materials are from Bulgaria – oat bran and wheat flour “, added the executive director of Cupffee.
The company’s base is 3600 square meters. Part of it is currently in use, and renovation is underway in the rest, where the next new lines will be installed.
97 percent of the goods are for export, mostly because of the price. In some retail chains, a glass sells for about 35 cents. This is the reason why Cupffee does not think about creating a network for deliveries to restaurants, which must be separated from the plastic anyway. “We have few reservations about Bulgarian restaurants, because the way of pricing is not suitable – when we multiply everything by two and three, the price becomes too high. Maybe it will take some time for them to mature, that ecology should be in the first place and the price is not always leading “, said Miroslav Zapryanov.
The company’s products are about 100% ecological alternatives to traditional plastic and glass cups for one-time use. The technology is unique in terms of data on a global scale. The company is attracting a lot of interest from the international markets and offers its innovative product in over 40 countries on 6 continents.
Surface products are a manufacturer of ecological alternatives to plastic and glass cups for one-time use. From April 2019 Cupffee participates in the first long flight in the world without plastic. The Bulgarian product was part of the trip to Etihad between Aby Dhabi and Brisbane.
