Black tea CTC

Black tea CTC is one of the best-selling products of FGC – the leading tea company in Vietnam. FGC equips modern machinery lines imported from India. Therefore, we can produce CTC black tea products having the same characteristics and meeting the standards. Our CTC black teas have typical features: a sweet aftertaste, pleasant aroma, and dark red color.

CTC (abbreviation of Crush, Tear, Curl) is a typical producing method of making black tea that first comes from India, then has become popular in many other countries, including Vietnam. In this article, we will introduce more about our black tea CTC to help you understand to choose the best products for your market.

1. Advantages of FGC Vietnamese black tea CTC

Many foreign wholesalers choose black tea CTC made by FGC because of the high quality and competitive price. By applying Indian machinery lines, we can produce products that meet the same standards as Indian black tea CTC. We harvest fresh green leaves from our own tea plantations in the North of Vietnam. We control the quality of our products from A to Z to make sure what we bring to our customers is the best one.

Moreover, we can provide a competitive price so our customers can buy Vietnamese black tea CTC leaves to blend with tea produced in their country to optimize the revenue but still have the high quality of tea.

CTC black tea can be stored and preserved for several years without losing its flavor and aroma like Orthodox black tea. FGC always cares for the quality and material of packaging for black tea CTC products. We use a strong silver layer paper sack to keep the quality of CTC black tea in good condition during long transportation by sea. We also own many well-equipped warehouses to ensure to keep our products in the best condition for protecting the quality.

2. Grades of CTC Vietnamese black tea

Vietnamese Black tea CTC tea  are primarily categorized into four grades: CTC BOP, CTC BP, CTC PF1 and CTC PD.Each grade has a distinct value that it can bring to the mixture. Here are our grades of Vietnamese black tea CTC.

FGC can blend into many tea recipes by using these different grades to satisfy a customer’s intended price and market demand.

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3. Vietnamese black tea CTC manufacturing process

As mentioned above, the name of black tea CTC comes from the process of crushing, tearing, and curling. Without those steps, the method of producing black tea CTC is quite similar to that of Orthodox Black tea.

For more details, please follow the production process of Vietnamese CTC black tea in brief as follow:

Step 1: Selecting raw materials

Farmers harvest fresh tea buds in tea plantations. The perfect tea buds are the one with 3 young leaves on top, that formed a distinct shape. Quality controllers carefully inspect after transporting the fresh ingredients to the factory. Then, workers will wither immediately to save its freshness.

Step 2: Wither green leaves

The purpose of the process is to reduce the amount of water in the green leaves. It will increase the concentration of substances in the cytosol and therefore helps to increase the activity of oxidizing enzymes. The percentage of water in tea will be reduced to 62-63%. Tea leaves are soft but not broken.

Step 3: Grinding the product into black tea CTC

The process is to reduce the size of raw material and increase the volume of tea leaves for more efficiency in the following cutting stage. After grinding, the raw materials reach the cell stamping rate of over 50%, without any coarse impurities.

Step 4: Cutting the tea

The purpose is to break down the cellular structure of the tea leaves. At the same time, it releases the fluid in the tea leaves, creating favorable conditions for the enzyme system to contact the solute components, tannins, and organic compounds.

Step 5: Shaping black tea CTC

The step aims at shaping the Vietnamese CTC black tea products. The circular sieve moves in a circular motion, which helps tea leaves to be rolled into pellets of different sizes.

Step 6: Fermentation 

It is the primary step in the processing of black tea. The fermentation process starts from the cutting stage until the end of fermentation. After fermenting, it will pass through the vane part to be beaten evenly to the brewing stage.

Step 7: Drying tea

Using high temperatures to suspend enzyme activities, immobilize specific substances formed during fermentation. At the same time, dry tea to the specified humidity to ensure stable product quality. Raw materials turn from red copper to dark brown and a typical aroma of CTC black tea.

Step 8: Sorting

This process is to classify the teas in order to best suit the requirements of buyers and consumers, convenient for pricing and storage.

The tea is pre-screened to remove most of the fiber and impurities. Then go through the sorting machines. Depending on the size of different large and small tea particles, they will pass through the corresponding sized sieve holes to be classified into separate types.

4. Advantages of service that FGC offer to partners

Tea connoisseurs are well aware that not all teas produce the same infusion, flavor, or scent. Each variety or grade of tea leaves is best suited for a specific sort of beverage. We provide each customer with a unique drink that is perfectly suited to them. Our tea experts are constantly researching and trying to blend many different grades of tea leaves. We want to find new formulas to provide products that optimize for our customers.

FGC is the leading company that can provide the best OEM service. We can customize things to match the demands of customers, pack under a customer’s private label or our Cozy brand, and provide a range of packaging solutions, including:

• Filter paper tea bag in 2 gram packing
• Vacuum foil bag
• Plastic bag, plastic jar, duplex box, tin box
• Carton 10kgs, 25kgs or in bulk silver layer paper sack, PE/PP bag

Our efforts aim to preserve the quality of CTC black teas during long overseas shipments and give clients a range of ways to introduce and sell their products.

For CTC black tea, silver layer paper sacks are the best packaging material to ensure the best quality of tea and save cost.

Designing the branding identity for our customer’s products is one of the most valuable services we can provide. We will create a private label for customers if they have a registered brand name in their market, or we will use our brand name Cozy if they want.

With these advantages mentioned above, we can deliver the best services to our consumers.

5. How to purchase Vietnamese CTC black tea products

So, how can you purchase our best Vietnamese black tea CTC at the best prices?

Please send us an email to huongmaifgc@vietnam-tea.com or info@vietnam-tea.com, within hours, a professional sales manager will contact you via phone or email.

Or you can call us at:  +84 24 73 000 125/+84 24 6664 7788

Or you can leave your information in the form in our website www.vietnam-tea.com, within hours we will contact you back.

We hope the information we shared with you can help you understand more about Vietnamese black tea CTC. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We are willing to consult you with the best advice we can provide.