ABOUT US

Viljee and Hermiena Lombaard bought a Macadamia farm in the Barberton valley, back in 2002. From 2007 to 2016 we have done value adding to our macadamia crop, making chocolate macadamia sweets and had our product on the shelves in all major retail outlets in SA. We opened our cracking facility back in 2017. 

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Today, 17 years later we are in business as a Nut in shell boutique facility specializing in Nut in shell exports to China. 

We also own a nut in shell online registered retail brand” Paguma” in China.  Our aim and business model are based on managing all costs and operating with the lowest overheads possible, but still offers the best service to our farmers and clients (buyers), without compromising quality and service. 

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As a farmer myself we have learned to remove all unnecessary expenses (bells and whistles), that have a negative impact on pricing e.g. expensive facilities. Removing certain unnecessary costs that do not add value and quality to the product. An approach – we as Mac farmers adopted because of recent low prices. 

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Basically, all processors receive more of less the same offering from Chinese buyers (very transparent- “we all fish at the same dam”) but overheads, margins and volume dictates prices offered to growers.  The Grower can only benefit from our approach, we forward these financial benefits to our grower.  This makes us very competitive.  

 

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