The back of the new Macap Supra 83 grinder at the SCA Expo in Houston. Daily Coffee News photo by Howard Bryman.
Italian coffee grinder company Macap is picking up the pace with a new flagship line of professional espresso grinders called Supra, designed for high-speed service at busy coffee bars.
The 95-year-old Venetian company that was acquired by Milan-based Ryoma Holding Company five years ago displayed Supra machines for the first time in the United States at the SCA Expo in Houston in April.
The Supra 68 and Supra 83 center on 68-millimeter and 83-millimeter flat burrs that are spun at 1,250 RPM by 650-watt and 700-watt motors, respectively. The larger machine can dispense up to 10 kilograms of finely ground coffee per hour, issuing an 18-gram dose in 2.7 seconds, according to the company.
Daily Coffee News photo by Howard Bryman.
Adjustments to the grind, as well as access to the burrs for cleaning, are sped up by what Macap calls FOS, an acronym for “Fast Opening System.” The FOS provides a shortcut for alternating between micro and macro grind adjustments while also allowing a barista to access the burrs by hand, without tools.
Supra machines also offer Macap’s CTS — short for “Coffee Targeting System” — which is designed to keep the coffee bar tidy. The CTS mechanism allows users to adjust the angle of the grinder’s output chute to accommodate the behaviors of different coffees as they exit.
“Sometimes coffee, depending if it’s dark, mild or light roast, will have a different reaction when you grind it and the way it gets out of the grinding chamber,” Macap representative Denis Girardi told Daily Coffee News in Houston. “You always want to have the working space very clean. You don’t want to have a mess there, and that’s very important for a barista.”
Daily Coffee News photo by Howard Bryman.
The icon-based touchscreen control panel Macap introduced in 2023 with its MI20 and MI40 grinders is carried forth on the Supra line, though the new grinders fundamentally embrace the concepts of speed and durability, rather than an abundance of new tech for users.
“It’s a well-built grinder, built to resist, built to perform,” said Girardi. “The aim here is to become a sort of no-brainer grinder for anyone who does a lot of coffee per day. It gets back to basics.”
The company has not yet announced U.S. prices for the Supra grinders, which are expected to begin shipping later this year.
Said Girardi, “Green beans are so expensive, people are way more sensitive now when it’s about price, so we try to make this product with a great price-for-value ratio.”
Daily Coffee News photo by Howard Bryman.
New Macap designs, including additional tech in the Supra line, are also in the works, with something new expected at the HostMilano trade show this fall in Italy.
“[Supra] is the relaunch of the brand into the commercial world,” said Girardi. “Big investments in technology, and this is just the beginning. This is just the first chapter.”
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Howard Bryman
Howard Bryman is the associate editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
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