Cocoa Processing Plant Pre-Feasibility Study
A cocoa processing plant can generate attractive accounting profits while delivering insufficient investment value. Bean procurement costs, product selling prices, working capital requirements, commissioning delays, and capital expenditure can quickly undermine an apparently promising opportunity. Executives need an integrated investment assessment before committing substantial capital.
Cocoa Processing Plant Pre-Feasibility Study – An Executive Investment Case for Indonesia provides a structured approach to evaluating a proposed facility with an annual input capacity of 20,000 tonnes of dry cocoa beans. Developed by UJ Consulting, this executive presentation connects market evidence, supply assessment, operating design, financial economics, and implementation planning within one coherent investment case.
Designed for CEOs, CFOs, investors, business owners, strategy consultants, and manufacturing leaders, the study addresses the questions that determine whether a project deserves further development: Can sufficient beans be purchased at acceptable quality and delivered cost? Can qualified buyers absorb production at achievable prices? What funding is required? How resilient are returns under adverse conditions?
The investment scope covers purchased dry beans processed into cocoa butter and natural cocoa powder. It distinguishes saleable products from internal intermediates, helping readers understand production economics without double counting revenue. Plantation development, retail chocolate manufacturing, and subsequent expansion require separate investment assessments.
The presentation covers six connected decision areas:
• Investment thesis: Understand project scope, evidence limitations, investment conditions, and the rationale for proceeding to detailed feasibility.
• Supply and site: Evaluate regional sourcing, procurement resilience, delivered costs, location alternatives, conceptual land requirements, warehouse sizing, and site due diligence.
• Market and operations: Assess domestic and export opportunities, buyer qualification, product specifications, capacity requirements, process flow, mass balance, quality controls, and preliminary equipment supplier screening.
• Project economics: Examine installed CAPEX, initial funding, revenue, EBITDA, working capital, cash flow, NPV, IRR, payback, scenarios, and sensitivity analysis.
• Execution and expansion: Structure permitting, engineering, construction, recruitment, commissioning, commercial readiness, risk controls, and expansion gates.
• Model and evidence: Understand the companion financial model's structure, investment cases, reconciliation approach, and supporting source register.
A central strength is its transparent treatment of investment uncertainty. The illustrative base case produces a project IRR of 14.22% against a 12% hurdle rate, but NPV becomes slightly negative when terminal recovery is excluded. This distinction demonstrates why positive earnings and headline returns should never replace a careful assessment of cash generation and downside exposure.
The study also explores an optimization target through lower CAPEX, improved selling prices, and better working capital terms. These improvements remain objectives requiring validation, rather than promised outcomes.
Use this presentation to structure investment discussions, challenge assumptions, organize feasibility work, and define evidence requirements before major commitments. Its recommendation is conditional progression to detailed feasibility—not unconditional construction approval. Historical benchmarks, engineering allowances, and commercial assumptions must be replaced with current, project-specific evidence.
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UJ Consulting
Strategy-Insight-Impact
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