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Yes. Cascade flavors coffee with both liquid and dry flavoring across 4 flavor mixing systems, so we can match the method to the product. Our range covers natural, artificial, and organic flavors, seasonal and limited-time profiles, cocktail-inspired flavors made without alcohol, and organic spices, powders, extracts, and essential oils. We also choose the roast level to fit the flavor, since a lighter roast often lets a delicate flavor come through. If the flavor you want isn't on our menu, our innovation team will develop it with you.

Cascade manufactures both private-label and white-label coffee. Private-label coffee is developed to a brand's or retailer's own specifications and sold under their name. White-label coffee starts from one of Cascade's established coffees, available in a range of roasts, and the buyer puts its own name on it. For either, Cascade handles the full program: green coffee sourcing, formulation, roasting, flavoring, grinding, packaging, and distribution, with Creative Services support for packaging design and launch. Because we don't sell a brand of our own, we never compete with the brands we make coffee for.

A coffee co-packer is a manufacturer that roasts and packages coffee for other brands, so a brand can sell coffee without running its own plant. Cascade Coffee works as a full-service co-packer, covering green coffee sourcing and receiving, roasting, grinding, flavoring and functional inclusions, packaging, and warehousing and distribution. Because it all happens under one roof, brands work with one supplier, one quality assurance relationship, and one purchase order across multiple SKUs, and can ship mixed products on a single truck.

Yes. Cascade Coffee roasts, grinds, and packs ground coffee, whole bean coffee, and single-serve cups for other brands in one operation. We run 4 single-serve cup lines with capacity for 215 million cups a year, 9 grinding systems rated at 12,000 pounds per hour, and 8 vertical form fill and seal lines for retail bags. With 65 million pounds of annual roasting capacity behind them, a brand can source its cups, bags, and bulk coffee from one supplier under one quality program. Every finished product goes through lab testing, including oxygen and seal testing.

Cascade can source green coffee across certifications, origins, and styles, including Fair Trade Certified, Rainforest Alliance Certified, 4C-certified, and organic coffees, Swiss Water Process decaf, single origins, blends, and coffee from women-owned and operated farms. The 4C standard covers social, environmental, and economic practices in coffee production and processing. We buy both Arabica and Robusta. Cascade participates in ethical sourcing audits, and our team includes certified green coffee graders and Q Graders. If it grows in the bean belt, we can source it.

Cascade sources green coffee from 52 countries across the coffee-growing world. Our supply chain team manages green coffee purchasing and plans it against each customer's production forecast, and certified green coffee graders and Q Graders on staff evaluate the coffee we buy. Cascade has storage for up to 2 million pounds of bulk green coffee and runs a 360,000-pound automated green coffee silo system, which helps keep supply steady for long-running programs. We can source green coffee for you, buy off your existing contracts, or roast coffee you supply.

Cascade runs 4 single-serve cup lines with capacity for 215 million cups a year. We pack single-serve cups in retail cartons of 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, and 24 counts and more, and in bulk packs of 30 to 100. Our purchasing team sources the cups, lidstock, filter paper, and cartons, or you can supply your own. Single-serve runs get oxygen and seal testing in our lab to confirm every cup is sealed and protected for freshness.

Cascade Coffee has 65 million pounds of annual roasting capacity and produces more than 2.5 billion servings of coffee a year. The plant runs 6 roasting lines, 9 grinding systems, and 14 automated packaging lines, with capacity for 170 million bags and 215 million single-serve cups a year, plus storage for 2 million pounds of green coffee. That gives us room to take on large national programs and to grow with brands as their volumes increase.

Contract roasters generally handle a brand's green coffee in one of three ways, and Cascade offers all three. We can source and buy green coffee for you through our own supplier relationships, buy off contracts you already hold with importers, or roast green coffee you supply. Packaging works the same way: we can source it, or you can supply it. You can also mix the options, for example supplying a signature single origin while Cascade sources the coffee for your core blends. Whichever route you choose, our supply chain team plans purchasing around your production forecast.

Yes. Cascade's coffee manufacturing is 100% carbon neutral, and our plant runs on 100% renewable electricity through the Snohomish County PUD Carbon Solutions program. Emissions from our natural gas use are fully offset through Puget Sound Energy's Carbon Balance program, and a regenerative thermal oxidizer neutralizes 99% of the volatile organic compounds from roasting, turning them into water vapor and heat. Coffee chaff, the dried skin that comes off the bean during roasting, goes to local compost makers. Through our CoffeEco program, we're also researching packaging that's recyclable, compostable, or made from renewable materials.

No. Cascade Coffee doesn't market its own coffee brand and never will. We're one of very few roasters in the U.S. without a brand of our own, which means we never compete with the brands we make coffee for. Our focus stays on your product, from formulation and sourcing through roasting, packaging, and launch, and our teams work side by side with yours.

Cascade can add a wide range of functional ingredients to private-label coffee, and our formulation menu changes often. Current options fall into a few groups: vitamins such as B12 and D3, adaptogens and botanicals like ashwagandha and ginseng, functional mushrooms, collagen and protein, MCT and omega-3 oils, and focus ingredients like L-theanine. Any of these can be combined with liquid or dry flavoring, organic spices and powders, and extracts. If the ingredient you have in mind isn't on our menu, our innovation team will research and source it.

This is a hard question to answer with one number, because every coffee program Cascade makes is custom to the brand behind it. The coffee, the format, any flavors or functional ingredients, the packaging, and your forecast all shape what an order looks like, so a single-serve line comes together differently from retail bags or bulk. Cascade offers more than 25 package sizes from 2 ounces to 5 pounds, plus single-serve cartons in counts from 10 to 24 and up, which gives a lot of room to fit a program to your volume.

Contact us with details about your product and the volume you have in mind, and we'll get back to you.

Cascade packs coffee in single-serve cups, frac and portion packs, four corner seal and rear fin seal retail bags, preformed block bottom bags, club packs, and bulk packaging up to 1,000-pound super sacks. We offer more than 25 package sizes from 2 ounces to 5 pounds, and single-serve cups in retail cartons of 10 to 24 counts and bulk packs of 30 to 100. These run on 14 automated packaging lines, including 4 single-serve cup lines, 2 frac pack lines, and 8 vertical form fill and seal lines. If you need a size we don't run yet, we can add it.

Cascade's Creative Services team works alongside your brand from first concept through launch. On the brand side, that includes packaging design, product graphics, and retail sell sheets, along with product storytelling such as blend naming, origin stories, and tasting notes. For your sales team, we create customer presentations, launch materials, and retail assets, and we run sampling programs with innovation kits and sales samples. The team also tracks coffee trends and consumer insights and develops seasonal and limited-time concepts, so your line has new ideas ready when you want them.