With many coffee retailers struggling, skittish investment markets and the near-complete shut down of in-person trade events in 2020, the commercial coffee equipment segment experienced a noticeably quiet year.
Yet coffee itself was still sorted, analyzed roasted, packed and shipped, and some coffee equipment manufacturers managed to hold launches for products long in the making.
This was true for roasting equipment giant Probat, which rolled out a number of new machines, as well as for espresso machine brand Victoria Arduino, which went head with the ambitious launch of its eco-forward Eagle One machine and later its single-group offspring the E1 Prima.