On Wednesday 11 November we took Carimali and Elektra to Vendex North, the UK show for the vending and office-coffee trade. On stand 67 the Carimali Armonia U, our new fully automatic flagship, made its first public appearance in the UK, next to the Elektra Eklipto traditional espresso machine.
Vendex is where UK operators and distributors come to see machines working rather than read about them, so we kept the stand simple: two machines working, and the people who can answer questions about them. Francesco Marchetti, our UK business development representative, ran the stand.
The Armonia U, seen in the UK for the first time
The Armonia U is the machine we built for busy sites that serve a lot of milk drinks: offices, hotels and self-service locations.
- A 13-inch touchscreen with new software, large enough for drink pictures and clear menus.
- CARIcream fresh milk, hot and cold, textured at the cup.
- Up to four hoppers: two for beans and two for soluble products.
- Around 250 cups a day.
- Wi-Fi and Ethernet as standard, ready for CARIcare, Carimali's platform for remote monitoring, recipe changes and software updates.
Next to it, the Elektra Eklipto
The Eklipto is Elektra's traditional espresso machine for cafés: Elektra design, PID temperature control and a portafilter workflow baristas know. Showing it beside the Armonia U put both sides of the group on one stand: Carimali's automation for high-volume sites and Elektra's Italian espresso craft.
Thank you, and what comes next
Thank you to everyone who stopped at stand 67. If you are a distributor, reseller or operator in the UK and want to follow up on either machine, contact Francesco through our UK page. For the machines we already hold in stock in the UK, ask him for current lead times.