ECOM supplies high quality cocoa products
Our cocoa products offer a range of quality options for a variety of finished goods, including chocolate, ice cream, fillings, desserts, baked goods, creams, drinks and compound chocolate. Our precision processing techniques mean our customers can be assured of exceptional taste, colour and performance across all our product categories.
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With over 100 years of experience making direct supplies to the chocolate industry, we have an in depth knowledge of customers and their needs, as well as a legacy in making cocoa products. We specialise in the practical logistics of transporting solid and liquid product, and we are skilled in meeting the blending requirements, quality specifications and product presentation required by our customers. The powders we create are sought after by some of the world’s largest food companies, as well as by hundreds of small- and medium-sized food businesses around the world. |
Our brands
Experience in excellence
Dutch Cocoa
Processing in the Netherlands for over 150 years, Dutch Cocoa has a strong legacy in supplying some of the world’s premium natural & alkalized powders, deodorized butter and mass. Our state-of-the-art facility produces richly colored powders, low & high fat, with distinct flavor profiles.
Tulip Cocoa
Tulip products are a select group of value-driven, high quality, low-fat natural and alkalized cocoa powders, cocoa butter and cocoa mass produced on three continents. With our global presence we are able to serve the needs of both individual customers and vast market segments.
ECOM Mexico products
We offer high quality natural & alkalized cocoa powder, with a full range of colours and PH levels to fulfill our customer needs. Produced at our facility in Mexico, featuring one of our R&D and Application Lab centers, we serve our chocolate and confectionery customers in the region.
Our offerings
Cocoa Mass
Cocoa mass, also known as cocoa liquor, is the key flavour ingredient to produce any type of chocolate. ECOM Cocoa's bean grinding facilities are able to offer a range of standard and tailor made liquors in liquid or solid form.
Based on different bean origins and roasting parameters, providing a variety of cocoa mass flavor options, we give our customers the possibility to produce high quality premium chocolates.
Through our extensive network of affiliated and partner factories throughout the world, and through our direct relationships with farmers and co-operatives, we can offer our customers even a wider variety of options to give chocolate their signature taste.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements furthers.
Cocoa butter
Cocoa butter is the essential ingredient to give chocolate the desired consistency and texture.
ECOM cocoa offers Pure Prime Pressed cocoa butter according to the highest quality specifications and customer specific parameters, resulting in chocolate products with excellent crystallization properties and great taste. We offer our deodorised and natural cocoa butter in both liquid and solid forms.
Our unique combination of production facilities and our global network enables us to offer stable quality and flexible solutions to our clients.
Cocoa powder
Powder is the most versatile of all our products and can be used in fillings, ice creams, baked goods, compound chocolate and more. The powder’s taste depends on the beans, alkalisation and roasting processes, all of which affect the intensity of the finished product.
At ECOM, we offer a variety of powder types, all made using quality beans and with the benefit of over 150 years of experience. All our cocoa products can be offered as certified under Rainforest Alliance or Fairtrade.
For more details about our powders for application please see our fact sheet below.
Our powders for application
Richly coloured powders with distinct flavours
Application bakery
The unique composition of its dough is what makes bakery applications so special. A strong alkalized cocoa powder will have the best performance in this application. It will bring about the rich and chocolaty impression that goes hand in hand with the intensity of the color!
Bakery fact sheet
Application compound
Compound chocolate is a specific application for powder as it brings a very strong colour and a complex flavour profile to the product. This can be done using non-alkalized or alkalized cocoa powder; however, using alkalized will bring about even better features to the application.
Compound fact sheet
Application dairy
One of the most successful applications of cocoa powder is chocolate drinks. This product is available in many different configurations: ready-to-drink in hot or cold form; freshly prepared or shelf stable. The cocoa powder used for this should be versatile to adapt to all the different needs.
Dairy fact sheet
Application fillings
When applied in crèmes and fillings, cocoa powder needs to deliver a clean taste. In both bakery and confectionery applications it is being used to add support to the overall impact of the biscuit or chocolate.
Fillings fact sheet
Application ice cream
Without a doubt one of the all-time most popular flavors in ice cream has been chocolate. This is not surprising; the melting properties of an ice cream bear similarities with that experienced when eating a chocolate tablet.
Icecream fact sheet
What's new
ECOM Cocoa at FI Europe 2023
ECOM Cocoa held a booth at FI EUROPE in Frankfurt last December, and we were excited for what was in store!
We were happy to discover new developments in the industry along with everyone else.
We look forward to attending FI Europe 2024, and we hope to see you there!
Click here to read more about FI
Our newest addition
Introducing the Tulip900, our new standard in dark
In response to the growing demand for affordable darker cocoa powders, we are proud to present TULIP900, the newest addition to our European cocoa powder portfolio. TULIP900 offers an intense dark cocoa powder without compromising on taste.
As a part of a bakery product, TULIP900 acts as a robust counterpoint to dough, giving products a strong flavor profile and the intense dark chocolate colour many consumers look for. The powder adds that same dramatic colour intensity when used in compound chocolate.
When used in combination with other cocoa powders, TULIP900 it is the perfect solution to add subtle depth of colour and richer flavor while using less cocoa powder.
Hand Out T900
Cocoa certifications
What we can do as Certified
With our strong foundation in sustainability we’re building more ambitious goals to boost farmers’ livelihoods and support human rights in cocoa growing communities. This can be fitted in tailor made programs for our customers.
Standard optional sustainable programs for all our cocoa products include certified Rain Forest and certified Fairtrade both segregated or mass balance.
Besides these certifications all our products are certified Kosher and Halal.
Sustainability
We recently launched our Smarter Cocoa Charter, which sets out commitments and time-bound targets to increase farmer prosperity, protect nature and improve traceability in cocoa.
The detailed ambitions in the Charter include a commitment by ECOM to train 100% of farmers within its origin-sourced supply chain, identified as at high risk of negative impacts of climate change, in climate-smart agriculture by the end of 2025. Climate-smart techniques are catered to farmers’ specific needs, and can include training on good soil management, pest control and shade management. To help diversify income and enhance climate resilience, the Charter also sets a goal to establish agroforestry models, such as farming systems to help enhance forest cover, sequester carbon, and improve biodiversity and soil health. Additionally, the implementation of monitoring systems in 100% of ECOM’s origin-sourced supply chains by the end of 2023.
Details of the Charter can be found within our first annual Cocoa Sustainability Report.