Through its CoffeEco program, Cascade researches recyclable, compostable, and renewable packaging and partners across the industry to improve sustainability.

Cascade operates two manufacturing and roasting facilities in the Pacific Northwest, headquartered in Everett, Washington.

Cascade doesn't market its own coffee brand, so it never competes with its customers. That focus lets Cascade work side by side with the brands it manufactures for.

Cascade roasts, flavors, and packages whole bean, ground, single-serve, and functional coffee for other brands, across formats from retail bags to K-cups to bulk.

Cascade Coffee has roasted and packaged coffee in the Pacific Northwest since 1977, more than 40 years.

Cascade Coffee is a contract coffee roaster and packager in the Pacific Northwest, in business since 1977. Cascade roasts, flavors, packages, and distributes coffee for national brands and private-label programs, and doesn't sell a brand of its own.

Cascade's innovation team develops custom formulations from a project brief, sourcing ingredients, creating samples, and running a cupping and feedback loop until you approve.

It's coffee formulated with added benefits, such as vitamins, adaptogens, mushrooms, collagen, or nootropics. Cascade develops and manufactures it at production scale.

Cascade runs both liquid and dry flavoring, plus functional ingredients and nutraceuticals, a combination few co-packers offer.

Cascade manufactures private-label and white-label coffee for retailers and brands end to end, from sourcing and formulation through roasting, packaging, and distribution, and never sells a brand of its own.

A coffee co-packer roasts and packages coffee for other brands. Cascade covers green sourcing, roasting, flavoring, packaging, and distribution, so a brand can run its whole coffee program through one partner.

Cascade produces whole bean, ground, and single-serve cups in one operation, with 4 single-serve cup lines and 215 million cups of annual capacity, alongside 65 million pounds of roasting capacity.

Cascade tests, validates, documents, and traces up to 20 data points on every roast in its Quality Windows database, so any run can be traced from green coffee to finished product.

SQF audits are scored out of 100, with 96 and above rated Excellent. Cascade has scored in the Excellent range every year since 2019.

Cascade has held an SQF rating of Excellent for eight straight years, most recently a 97 out of 100, backed by HACCP, GMP, and PCQI-qualified staff.

Look for SQF or another GFSI-recognized certification, HACCP, GMP, and PCQI-qualified staff. Cascade holds all of these, plus low-acid canned foods authority and programs for recall and traceability, food defense, and food fraud.

Brandon Gartland, a certified Q Arabica Grader with more than 20 years at Cascade, leads sensory and technical work across the roasting programs.

Stephanie Hoffman, VP of Food Safety and Quality, brings more than 15 years in contract manufacturing and quality, including roles at Bulletproof and Chewy.

Cascade's leaders bring more than 200 combined years across food and beverage manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and finance.

John Gilbert, who joined Cascade in 2020, brings more than 30 years in manufacturing leadership, including 24 years at VanLaw Foods where he helped grow the company's value 38-fold.

Cascade is led by CEO John Gilbert and a leadership team drawn from VanLaw Foods, Kellogg, Nestlé, Boeing, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, spanning operations, supply chain, quality, and finance.

Cascade works with emerging and fast-growing brands alongside large national and private-label programs, and often supplies the innovation and supply-chain expertise a smaller team doesn't have in house.

Pricing depends on the coffee, format, volume, and ingredients, so it's set per program. Cascade scopes it with you once we understand what you're building.

Emerging and fast-growing brands, established national brands, and retail private-label programs.

Cascade works with emerging brands, national brands, and private-label retail programs. The process starts with a project brief, then moves through sampling, specification, and commercialization.

About six months from concept to commercial launch, roughly half the standard industry timeline.

Cascade formulates functional and nutraceutical coffee at scale, including adaptogens, mushrooms like lion's mane and reishi, vitamins, and collagen.

Fair Trade Certified, Rainforest Alliance, and organic coffees, Swiss Water Processed decaf, single origins, and coffee from women-owned and operated farms.

From 52 countries, including Fair Trade Certified, Rainforest Alliance, and organic options, Arabica and Robusta, single origins and blends, and Swiss Water Processed decaf.

Cascade runs 4 single-serve cup lines with 215 million cups of annual capacity.

Cascade has scored in the SQF Excellent range every year since 2019, most recently a 97 out of 100, and has held the certification for eleven years.

Cascade is SQF certified and includes HACCP, GMP, and PCQI-qualified staff, plus low-acid canned foods authority and recall, traceability, food defense, and food fraud programs.

Cascade doesn't sell a brand of its own, offers both liquid and dry flavoring plus functional formulation, and backs it with eight straight years of SQF Excellent ratings.

Both terms describe what Cascade does. Cascade is a contract coffee roaster and co-packer that handles sourcing, roasting, flavoring, and packaging for other brands.

Cascade Coffee has roasted and packaged coffee in the Pacific Northwest since 1977, holds an SQF rating of Excellent for the last eight years, and runs 65 million pounds of annual roasting capacity across two facilities for national brands and private-label programs.

Cascade has 65 million pounds of annual roasting capacity across two facilities, with 6 roasting lines and 14 automated packaging lines.

Cascade can source and buy green coffee and packaging on your behalf, buy off your existing contracts, or run your program with greens and packaging you supply.

Yes! We're committed to reducing our impact on the environment so that we can work together to make a better future for everyone. Our coffee manufacturing is all 100% carbon-neutral and our facilities operate on 100% renewable energy.

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We do this by being a proud participant in the Snohomish County Public Utility District Carbon Solutions Program. All electrical power needs are now being met through 100% carbon-free and 100% renewable sources.

Emissions associated with natural gas usage of nearly 500,000 therms per year have been 100% offset by Cascade’s participation in Puget Sound Energy’s Carbon Balance program and the company purchase of a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer which neutralizes 99% of the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) turning them and other harmful pollutants into harmless inert byproducts (water vapor, heat).

All Chaff (dried skin of the coffee bean) is provided to local compost manufacturers to be completely recycled into nutrient-rich compost.

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At Cascade Coffee we do not compete with our customers. This means we do not and will never have our own branded line of coffee.

Rather we partner with you to create a mutually beneficial and secure business relationship designed to provide your consumers with unique experiences that drive brand differentiation and loyalty.

Vitamins, adaptogens, mushrooms, collagen, MCT, and more, using both liquid and dry flavoring and custom sourcing on request.

Minimum volumes depend on the product and program, so Cascade doesn't publish a single number. Format, ingredients, and forecast all factor in, and it's worked out together. The best next step is a quick conversation about what you're planning.

Single-serve cups, fractional and portion packs, four corner seal and rear fin seal retail bags, club packs, block bottom bags, super sacks, and bulk.

Cascade's Creative Services team supports packaging design, product graphics, retail sell sheets, customer presentations, and launch materials.