MILAN – The visionary intuition of an innovative roasting technology mixed with century-long knowledge of coffee and its market led IMF, Italian company producing coffee roasting machines and turnkey plants solutions for the coffee industry, to an exponential growth that transformed a small almost unknown reality in a prestigious brand, destined to increasingly become a reference point for the sector in Italy and in the world.
Imf: A journey began over 20 years ago
A journey began over 20 years ago having its decisive turning point with the acquisition by Alessandro Garbin, which in 2010 took over IMF after a long experience in green coffee trading and in the sale of coffee roasting machines and plants. Since then, continuous investments in research and development, together with a strong drive to innovation, have marked a steady pace of growth leading the brand to play a key role in the whole sector in Italy and increasingly abroad.
“When I acquired IMF my goal was to put my expertise in green coffee knowledge together with the great roasting technology developed by the company. This brought to important improvements in the organization, and we now have a wide set of products, from shop and industrial coffee roasters – ranging from 1 to 480 kg per batch – to plant solutions green and roasted coffee storage, grinders, ground coffee plants, optical sorters, packing machines and chaff compactors”.
The heart of the business
The heart of the business is represented by the manufacturing of high performance qualitative coffee roasting machines with a marked focus on eco-sustainability, as the post-combustion analysis outcomes are widely within the limits set by present law.
In addition to coffee roasters, IMF designs and manufactures complete plants for coffee transformation process, from green coffee reception until roasted as well as ground coffee treatment, through the use of a management and lot traceability software in compliance with the national industry plan for development and innovation. Another crucial aspect is the post-sales customer service, to which the company dedicates extreme care both domestically and internationally, ensuring full customer satisfaction worldwide.
Concerning new technologies development, what sets Imf apart from competitors lies in the virtuous and sustainable approach to the environment
Emission levels are highly within law limits even with regard to formaldehyde, without the necessity to install expensive post-combustion system such as catalyzers or additional afterburners. All roasters come with cyclone, smoke cleaning system with recirculation, destoner and coffee loader integrated in a compact space.
Moreover, IMF has recently patented the exclusive Vortex system, allowing hot and cool air mixing for better roasting control: “This feature – explains Garbin – allows you to mix the hot air with which you roast coffee to air at room temperature effectively and evenly to cook coffee in a sweet and accurate way”.
Equipped with the brand new Galileo roasting software – to be operated on a full color touch screen control panel – IMF machines can continuously roast tons of coffee with great repeatability and reliability of selected roasting profiles. It is possible to constantly control every step of the process, from green coffee silos loading to roasting, cooling and destoning until roasted coffee silos loading and packaging. Our remote assistance control service, through which is possible to remotely run a diagnosis on plants, turned out to be highly appreciated.
Over the past few years the company has widely extended its productive and administrative areas, more than doubling the surface of its offices, production sites and warehouses, in line with the latest directives in the field of energy efficiency, through the installation of insulated walls and windows, photovoltaic panels to self-produce the electricity required to run its various activities, the replacement of warehouse roofing, with the purpose of moving towards a greener and more sustainable direction.
Yet investments are not over
In fact IMF continues its policy of development and organizational strengthening through the continuous recruitment of specialized technical staff, supporting its employees with customized corporate welfare solutions and performance incentive systems.
IMF sets as example of state of the art made in Italy, with its quality recognized worldwide.
