Our name on every step
Two-acre primary-processing facility
For curing and preparing vanilla at origin, with a dedicated East Africa team managing sourcing, quality and operations across the region.
Audited partners + our own operation
Secondary processing through established, audited partners, with our own extraction and flavour-development operation being established near Chennai.
Operations in Gent
Thiraya BV is the group's commercial and financial base and the operations for our customers.
Cross-border, every mode
We manage logistics, customs and quality across the chain: raw cashew from Africa to Asian processors, cotton counter-seasonally into India, and India-made cotton products into Europe.
Sourcing strategy
Harvest calendarHarvests do not line up with demand. Most of what we do well comes down to knowing when a crop is ready somewhere else.
Counter-seasonal cotton
Tanzania harvests cotton in July and August. India harvests in November to January. We supplied Tanzanian cotton into India from September through January, covering the months before the local crop arrived and staying in place while it came in. The same logic applies to cereals, pulses and other seasonal crops grown in the southern hemisphere of Africa.
Tanzania's crop reaches Indian mills in the months before India's own arrives — and keeps covering them while it comes in.
Cashew, all year round
We source cashew from three origins on different harvest cycles: Benin from February to April, Guinea-Bissau from May to August, and Tanzania from October to January. Coordinated by one team, they cover every month of the year but September.
- BeninFEB–APR
- Guinea-BissauMAY–AUG
- TanzaniaOCT–JAN
Single-origin Uganda
We source vanilla from a single origin — the Lake Victoria region of Uganda. Two harvests a year, a major season in summer and a secondary one in winter, bring beans to buyers fresher than a once-a-year crop allows. And at that altitude the bean matures slowly on the vine, building a naturally richer flavour.
Windows are indicative. Uganda's two seasons are declared each year by the Ministry of Agriculture so beans are picked at peak ripeness; Madagascar's single harvest typically runs June–August.
Logistics
Trade routes, currentBought at origin, processed at the right hub, delivered to the customer’s market — all on our own team, across inland, air and ocean.
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