Premier's Tea Cleaning: Ensuring Purity and Quality
The greatest challenge in the value-added niche and mass tea market is removing foreign materials such as wooden splinters, nails, foil, iron particles, stones, unwanted fiber, and dust from tea gardens. These gardens often lack proper facilities for cleaning bulk teas, which are typically cleaned abroad by packers using various technologies.
Our Journey in Tea Cleaning Starting in 1989, the Premier's team began searching for machines both domestically and internationally while simultaneously developing in-house technologies through our engineering R&D division. By early 1991, Premier's established the first cleaning, processing, blending, and packaging unit in India, based on Japanese technology. This innovation ensured the removal of all impurities and foreign particles, including dust, from the tea leaves. This milestone marked the beginning of Premier's journey to the global market, gradually building the brand's reputation for consistency in quality and packaging standards. Initially, our factory had a tea cleaning capacity of 500 kg per shift, which posed challenges in meeting large and time-sensitive orders as demand grew.
Tea is wealth itself, because there is nothing that cannot be lost, no problem that will not disappear, no burden that will not float away, between the first sip and the last.
State-of-the-Art Tea Plant By late 1999, we sought new technologies and larger space for a new tea plant. After more than four years of planning and development, Premier's inaugurated its new Tea Plant in 2004 at P-52 Hide Road, Kolkata 700 088. Spanning approximately 80,000 sq.ft., this state-of-the-art facility, completely imported from Japan, was the first of its kind in Southeast Asia outside of Japan. Assembled in Kolkata by Japanese engineers, the plant ensures the removal of all impurities and unwanted materials from all grades of teas. With a capacity of approximately 3,000 kgs of tea per shift, the facility includes vacuum packaging for bulk teas, packaging in metal caddies, duplex board boxes, bio-degradable pyramid tea bags with sachets and conventional tea bags in foil and paper envelopes.
Advanced Storage and Certification We have also installed a cold storage system for storing fruit and flower infusion raw materials. Today, Premier's Tea, whether in bulk or packet, meets international standards of acceptability and packaging for both niche and mass markets. Our company is certified with ISO 22000-2018, Food Safety System Certification and HACCP.
