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Espresso machines: learning from the past and

building for the future.

The company has successfully grown from
these humble roots to become a large and
successful espresso machine manufacturer
supplying not just UK foodservice but exporting
to over seventy countries around the world.
In a speech on exporting and growth in

November 2011, British Prime Minister David
Cameron exclaimed: “Amazing! It’s not just the
film industry where Britain is excelling – Fracino
in Birmingham is selling coffee-makers to Italy!”
He then went on to install a Fracino espresso
machine at Number 10!
Style and substance are developed in
harmony, never at the cost of performance,
The advent of speciality coffee and the third, reliability or practicality. An espresso engineer
fourth and fifth wave of coffee shops and can remove any panel on a Fracino machine
passionate baristas have led to the deeper in the field in seconds - an approach that
understanding of the science of espresso saves time and money and runs through their
coffee and how commercial machines can finely tuned thinking and rigorous
support that quality the roaster hopes to development process. At the largest
emulate in coffee shops across the UK.
international coffee shows, you will always see
new coffee machine technology but it’s
One thing that has not changed at Fracino is important for catering buyers to honestly ask;
the highly skilled mechanical engineering that
drives the business. Coupled with a continual Is it really necessary?

reinvestment of profits, the technology used in Will it always work?
the factory is truly cutting edge. There are few If it does break can I get the skills and
parts that do not first cross the doorway as raw parts to fix it quickly?
materials. Computer-controlled laser systems Will it make my coffee taste better?
cut out the panel shapes from sheets of quality How will it help me make more money
stainless steel and robots weld them, computer and drive my bottom line?
controlled systems manage the production of
the copper tubes, which are cut, formed into
their final shapes and flanged. Brass fittings and
components are machined and threads are cut
by computerised lathes, metal is shaped and
formed on huge presses and boilers are rolled
from copper sheet and welded by robots and

the fittings brazed by highly skilled engineers.
All on site.