IMF Roasters: innovation and sustainability in coffee roasting
The coffee industry, its market and the entire supply chain have recently taken significant steps towards sustainability, recognising the need to reduce their environmental impact. The process most affected by this dynamic is roasting, a fundamental step in the production of roasted coffee.
In fact, an increasingly larger number of undertakings, even small ones, turn to roasting to make themselves autonomous in the process, as the advantages of quality assurance far outweigh the initial investments. IMF is particularly attentive to intercepting the needs of both small roasters, in need of “entry level” solutions, and large industrial groups, always guaranteeing high-quality and sustainable solutions that are, at the same time, technologically advanced. Active since1994, the company led by CEO Alessandro Garbin is highly specialised in the design, construction and installation of industrial systems with a focus on providing consultancy and know-how for the development of new production units and the integration of existing installations.
The specificity of the Occhiobello-based company’s technology lies in the hot-air roasting method, which guarantees great control, consistency and precision of the roasting process, aided by the integrated cooling system which ensures low emission levels, in line with world reference limits. IMF roasters in fact use a single combustion chamber, positioned separately from the machine, which has a twin function: to heat the roasting air to be sent to the drum and simultaneously process the emissions to the atmosphere, ensuring significant fuel savings.
Integrated roasting software makes it possible to manage and continuously check process variables, such as temperature, air volume and drum rotation speed, thus ensuring the perfect repeatability of roasting profiles. Agility and flexibility in managing these parameters enable the IMF machines to roast large quantities of coffee with absolute precision and total reliability.
In addition to the roasting process, it is possible to constantly monitor every stage of production, from receipt of the raw product to packaging, through a complete traceability system with remote assistance, developed in-house by IMF Research&Development.
Custom-designed and -built system solutions include:
• Receipt, selection and cleaning of green coffee,
• Green coffee storage,
• Roasting and cleaning roasted coffee,
• Storage and blending of roasted coffee,
• Grinding,
• Ground coffee storage,
• Final product packaging lines.
Discover the most suitable solution for your roasting plant on www.imf-srl.com. A complete range of professional roasters, plants and equipment for coffee roasting awaits you!
