THE COMPANY

TECO FINANCE EXPORT has celebrated 17 years of activity in 2000.

The main activity is focused on international trade of tropical raw materials. TECO is specialized in products native from the West African savanna areas where these products grow wild or in small farms representing a substantial part of the basic economical life in the bush.

TECO collects these traditional African products in many countries around the Gulf of Guinea : Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.

The main collected products being cashew nuts and sheanuts. This collection requires a strong organization with financing facilities, distribution of bags, quality control, warehousing and Export formalities from the loading port.

TECO FINANCE EXPORT holds all of these African activities in its name.

In France TECO’s reason for being is the processing, the packaging and the distribution of these products.

• Cashew kernels with their high vitamin E content are crushed to generate an oil for external use (in beauty care) and a food grade product (as food capsules)
• Sheanuts are collected for their butter. There are two ways to obtain shea butter :

- a mechanical process : extraction by crushing. This butter, the most appreciated in beauty care and in pharmacology, is 100 % natural.

- a chemical process: extraction by solvent.

Sheabutter is appreciated for its high content of unsaponifiables and its numerous intrinsic qualities such as a moisturizer, softener, anti-inflammatory and skin protector.

Others products : Cashew nut oil, Hemp seed oil.