Roasted beans are fragile: they must be conveyed gently to avoid breakage and preserve their full aroma. IMF integrates dense-phase conveying technology to transport roasted coffee in slow-moving plugs of beans through sealed pipelines. This method drastically reduces mechanical stress, ensuring whole-bean integrity and consistent cup quality—even across long distances and complex plant layouts.
Low-velocity transfer prevents cracking, chipping, and fines.
Oxygen exposure minimized with nitrogen-ready sealed pipelines.
Efficient conveying over 50+ meters with bends and vertical sections.
Seamless connection to IMF silos, weighers, flavouring units, and packaging.
PLC/HMI with recipe-based settings, alarms, and production reports.
Once coffee is ground, it becomes extremely sensitive to aroma loss and particle segregation.
IMF integrates dense-phase technology to move ground coffee in controlled plugs, ensuring uniform particle distribution, oxygen protection, and dust-tight handling.
This method guarantees consistent extraction quality while meeting the high standards of capsule, pod, and vacuum pack production.
(Up to 50 m)
IMF Vacuum Conveying systems move ground coffee under negative pressure, making them ideal for short to medium distances (≤50 m).
This solution provides dust-tight transfer, protects aroma, and ensures homogeneous particle distribution for capsule, pod, and retail packaging lines.
IMF Mechanical Conveyors are adapted specifically for ground coffee handling, with designs that reduce vibrations, minimize drop heights, and maintain uniform particle size distribution.
Tubular chain or belt conveyors are selected based on throughput and layout.
Once coffee is ground, it becomes extremely sensitive to aroma loss and particle segregation. IMF handling and conveying systems are engineered to move ground coffee gently through sealed pipelines, preserving whole-bean quality and consistent extraction across the plant.
Low-velocity dense-phase transfer prevents cracking, chipping and fines, protecting the integrity of the ground product.
Nitrogen-ready sealed pipelines minimise oxygen exposure and preserve the aromatic profile of freshly ground coffee.
Efficient conveying over 50+ metres with bends and vertical sections, without compromising particle consistency.
Controlled plugs and dust-tight handling prevent segregation, ensuring consistent quality for capsule, pod and vacuum-pack production.
Direct connection to IMF silos, weighers, flavouring units and packaging lines for a continuous, automated process.
PLC/HMI with recipe-based settings, alarms and production reports for full control and repeatability.
Advanced degassing systems for ground coffee that accelerate stabilization while ensuring maximum aroma retention and production efficiency.
Every conveying line is tailored around your coffee type, throughput, and layout.
Our portfolio covers roller and blade/impact technologies, sized from pilot plants to multi-ton-per-hour production.
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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