Every conveying line is tailored around your coffee type, throughput, and layout. Our engineers strike a balance between capacity and product care to deliver a comprehensive solution — whether your priority is high-volume roasted coffee, coffee feeding for packing machines, or gentle roasted coffee handling over long distances.
Once roasting and destoning are complete, accurate weighing is the essential next step. Measuring the roasted batch allows operators to verify shrinkage and maintain consistency across production. From there, the coffee must be transferred to storage silos—a stage that requires specialized conveying solutions to preserve bean integrity and aroma.
At IMF, every roasted coffee handling system is designed with gentle conveying as the top priority. Our mechanical and pneumatic solutions are carefully selected according to plant capacity, distance, and layout, ensuring maximum protection of product quality while optimizing efficiency.
Precise weighing systems directly after roasting, for shrinkage control and inventory accuracy.
Smooth transitions and low-velocity handling minimize bean breakage and fines.
Choice of mechanical or pneumatic conveying, adapted to throughput requirements and plant layout.
Dust-tight construction with aspiration points connected to the central dust filtering system.
Seamless integration with cyclones, rotary distributors, and IMF storage silos.
Prevented segregation of blends, avoiding cross contamination between products as organic or decaf coffee.
IMF Vacuum Conveying systems move roasted coffee under negative pressure, ensuring dust-free, hygienic transfer across moderate distances. Best suited for small to medium capacities, they guarantee clean handling and protect product purity.
(Roasted Coffee, Long Distance)
IMF Dense-Phase Pneumatic Conveying systems are specifically designed for the long-distance and gentle transport of roasted coffee. Unlike dilute-phase systems, dense-phase technology moves beans in slow-moving plugs or batches at low velocity, drastically reducing bean breakage, dust, and fines.
This makes it the ideal solution for preserving the quality of premium roasted coffee while covering distances of 50 meters and beyond up to 200 m even on extra dark roasting profiles.
IMF Tubular Chain Conveyors offer enclosed and flexible routing for roasted coffee, moving beans smoothly in all three spatial directions without damage even on 200 m distances.
Their gentle conveying principle makes them well-suited for premium whole bean handling.
IMF Bucket Elevators are engineered for the gentle vertical conveying of roasted coffee. Their angular/Z-type design combines horizontal and vertical transfer while minimizing bean breakage—making them ideal for fragile roasted beans.
Once coffee leaves the roaster, every transfer is a risk to bean integrity and aroma. IMF conveying systems are engineered to move roasted coffee gently across your plant, preserving product quality from the roaster to storage, blending and packaging.
Low-velocity transfer and smooth transitions minimise breakage and fines, protecting the integrity of freshly roasted beans.
Enclosed conveying routes preserve the freshness and aromatic profile of roasted coffee across every stage of the plant.
Pneumatic, tubular chain, cable and bucket elevator solutions, selected according to capacity, distance and layout, even beyond 200 m for extra-dark profiles.
Precise routing keeps blends separated and prevents cross-contamination between products such as organic or decaf.
Dust-tight construction with aspiration points connected to central filtering keeps the plant clean and the workplace safe.
Precise batch weighing directly after roasting supports shrinkage control, inventory accuracy and full traceability.
Engineered to minimize drop impact, control dust, and prevent breakage—so aroma, structure, and cup quality are preserved all the way to packaging.
Protect bean integrity, integrate precise batch weighing, and connect seamlessly with storage silos, grinders, and packaging lines.
A smart software tool that monitors and manages green coffee storage, preventing cross-contamination and reducing downtime.
We spent months researching, testing, and tasting before finally bringing home our first IMF air roaster. The results were a revelation. This machine unlocked a new dimension of clarity and sweetness in our coffees like Raxidi Lobo Estate, Ratnagiri Estate YC01.
IMF – 60 kg (2020) This machine took me into professional roasting. A combined drum + hot-air system with energy-efficient heating, afterburner, filter, and a destoner to remove any foreign particles. Because the system is closed and uses controlled hot air, it keeps the roast clean, even, and stable — no burnt spots, no uneven heat, no weather influence. Summer heat or winter cold doesn’t matter; the roast curve stays the same. Many typical roasting errors are eliminated by design. This is the level you need before going to the market with real volume — precision, repeatability, and protection against mistakes.
The IMF’s higher air throughput offers superior control of roast curves at all times, especially when most needed late in a roast.
Once we saw IMF's impressive operation, we were confident enough to cancel the rest of our manufacturer visits. Not long after, we placed an order for both our manual RM5 and an automatic RM60. The deciding factors were efficiency, roast quality and support.
Our RM60 provides a consistent, high quality roasting experience that supports our focus for delivering quality coffee to our café partners and home customers.
With the goal of creating new solutions capable of ensuring ever-higher quality standards and cutting-edge technologies, we enthusiastically began sharing ideas and constantly discussing suitable solutions.
The goal is to guarantee consumers high-quality coffee. The coffee roasting process, for example, the result of the ongoing collaboration between the two companies, has now reached extremely high levels in terms of quality and process technology.
I would highly recommend IMF to anyone looking for a quality machine, a roaster that allows consistent repetitive roasts, and a company that is always available to help when an issue does arise, which is not always the case in the manufacturing sector of the coffee industry.
I would absolutely recommend to every roaster to consider IMF. IMF was the only machine that had no limitations when it comes to power or batch capacity. It is nice being able to roast a full batch in under 8 minutes. Being a full convection machine allows specialty roasters to roast few points lighter without risking underdevelopment.
Also, I believe every business today is trying to reduce their carbon footprint. Technology that comes with IMF requires no afterburner and consumes 30% less gas compared to other manufactures.
I knew IMF by a German dealer and found it’s concept very interesting.The most important things in IMF’s roasters are the integration of an afterburner in the roasting machine and the method of heat transfer by air. The first one leads to lower energy consumption and emissions compared to a roaster plus traditional afterburner.
and the ease in which we can adjust the process without chasing a roasting curve. I really like to create the roast profile based on hot air in instead of hot air out. Also the build in afterburner is a big advantage.
We were looking for a IMF 15kg model but we were offered a 30kg used model and chose that one. We are really satisfied with it.
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