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october 22, 2021 - Ima Srl

IMA Coffee – Innovation at a glance at HOST 2021


Inventing cutting-edge technology is a difficult task. It cannot rely solely on current market trends but must look to where the market is forecast to grow in order to guide the evolution and development of technology.

Within the #imacoffee Hub, #imacoffee Packaging and #imacoffee Petroncini design and manufacture machines for coffee processing and packaging. In this sector, it is particularly important to constantly evolve, which the brand does thanks to its top engineers, organisational know-how and strong market overview.

IMA Coffee will be releasing its newest batch of innovations at HOST 2021: 
- The CO-Tube Degassing System
- The SR SMART Series capsule packaging machine 
- The C-900 capsule cartoning machine

Alongside the innovations, the timeless quality of a product. A Petroncini TTA120 Traditional roaster will also be on show - confirming how possible it can be to continuously overcome the state-of-the-art of a traditional drum roasting machine without forgetting the classic style.

IMA Coffee will showcase its new solutions in HALL 22 – Booth #L16/M15 – L26/M25.

CO-Tube – The next-generation Degassing System
Degassing is a natural chemical reaction that happens inside the beans once ground. Preventing package inflation and avoiding coffee oxidation are the main factors that have led to the spread of degassing technologies over recent years, especially in the single-serve market.

The new degassing system CO-Tube was designed last year, and is what Nicola Panzani, CEO of #imacoffee Petroncini and Sales Director at #imacoffee, describes as a “strong evolution” of existing solutions.

IMA Coffee Petroncini has developed CO-Tube, a system capable of accelerating the degassing time with a nitrogen (N2) injection, in a deep vacuum environment at -800 mbar. A closedhandling system almost allows zero-oxygen process conditions making it unique on the market. The oxygen does not enter in contact with the product, so as to guarantee the maximum aroma preservation with a significant impact on the product shelf-life. 

As a result of the closed-circuit adopted, CO-Tube is the only system available on the market today able to partially recover the nitrogen needed during the process. A nitrogen closed circuit reduces the quantity of nitrogen dispersed in the environment with significant savings in terms of inert gas to be added to continue the process, so as to have a nearly-free-from-gas working area and environment as a consequence. Furthermore, this specific process engineering enables the temperature control of the gas so as to maintain the temperature stable inside the system, despite the environmental temperature. As a result of the gas temperature modulation, it is possible to customise the degassing times, recipe by recipe.

Further information in the press release to download

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