Coaltown Coffee Roasters

Coaltown Coffee Roasters was founded in 2013 in Ammanford, a former anthracite mining town in Carmarthenshire, South West Wales. The last colliery in the area closed in 2003, and the roastery was built deliberately to reconnect the town with its identity as a producer of something valuable, positioning coffee as a successor to coal as Ammanford's 'black gold'.

Founder Scott James's great-grandfather spent his working life in the collieries that surrounded the town, and that history is central to how Coaltown presents itself. Coaltown became the first speciality coffee roaster in the UK to achieve B Corp certification, beginning that process in 2019.

The business is also a Living Wage employer and won two gold stars at the Great Taste Awards in 2014. It operates a roastery and canteen in Ammanford, an espresso bar in Pontarddulais, and a presence in Cardiff, and supplies wholesale across the UK.

The range spans a wide set of direct trade origins including Brazil, Honduras, Ethiopia, Kenya, Colombia, Guatemala, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Costa Rica, Peru, DR Congo and El Salvador.