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SO, LET US BREAK THIS DOWN

Designed to Disrupt, or Sheer Brilliance.

Starting with a Vision to combine the Art of Coffee Roasting with the Science
that makes it work, the Sophistication in creating an Exceptional Quality in the
product it produces, but at the same time a Simplicity in it’s Application that
anyone can do it, this became, Our Mission.


Disrupters, you could say, taking on tradition and turning it on its head, converting Conduction into Convection and harnessing the magic power, that
Air-Motion Roasters possess.


It takes courage to take on tradition, but we were up for it,
and it worked.


Air-Motion Roasters, it’s all in the Design!

THE MAGIC IS IN THE DESIGN

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THE ROAST CHAMBER

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The Roast Chamber features a precision-designed, cone-shaped stainless steel tube with a perforated base.

Hot air enters at the base, lifting the coffee beans in a vortex motion as it rises through the chamber.

As the air dissipates after passing through the beans, they cascade down the chamber walls, recycling back to the lifting point.

This process provides full control over the roast’s conduction, convection, and radiative heat transfer. Managed by a temperature controller and thermocouples within the chamber, it ensures the even roast every roaster desires.

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CYCLONE EXTRACTION SYSTEM

It Sucks

Dust, moisture, chaff, and smoky air produced during roasting are immediately extracted, diluted with excess air, and passed into the powerful cyclone extraction system.

The solids are efficiently separated and collected in a removable container, which can be emptied as needed.

The cyclone fan then discharges the cooled, treated air into the atmosphere.

Additionally, the cyclone fans cool the roasted beans in the cooling tray, efficiently bringing them down to temperature in just a few minutes.

TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE

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Charts five graphs in Real Time:

 

  • Heater / Air Temperature

  • Bean Temperature

  • Bean Temperature (RoR)

  • Heater Control

  • Blower Fan Control


Smart Recordings:

  • Development Time

  • Development % of the Roast

  • First Crack Start and Temperature

  • End Temperatures

  • Total Time of Roast

  • Internal roast profile data logging

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The Control Panel

Flight Deck

Otherwise known as The Flight Deck, the Control Panel includes:

 

  • Control Dials

  • Roast Mode

  • Heater, Blower Fan

  • Cyclone System

  • Water Dousing

  • Adjustable LED work light

  • Mesh dust extractor lid 

  • Bean Retainer lid

Full control over the Roast Process.

The Cooling Tray

Too Cool

After water dousing stalls the roast and initiates cooling, the roasted coffee beans are dumped into the Cooling Tray.

 

Agitator arms churn the beans while cool air is drawn through them via the Cyclone System, reducing the bean temperature in just a few minutes.

This rapid cooling process preserves the beans' flavour profile and prevents over-roasting, ensuring consistent quality in every batch.

The controlled cooling helps lock in the coffee's natural aromas and enhances the overall freshness, delivering a superior product to the end consumer.

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Better For Our Planet

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The Challenge

Traditional coffee roasting processes are known to produce air pollutants, mainly particulate matter, combustion gases and volatile organic compounds (VOC’s).

 

Particulate matter emissions stem from the chaff (removed from the bean when roasting) together with condensation by-products.

 

Combustion gas emissions mainly stem from combustion of hydrocarbon-rich fuel for heat generation.

 

VOC emissions mainly stem from volatilisation of natural components in the beans and the reactions in the bean when roasting, as well as fuel burning.

 

With this in mind, it became the Mission of Air-Motion Roasters not to merely improve on traditional methods, but it became imperative to develop a technology (Air-Roasting Technology) that was more superior and moving in the direction that was also Better For Our Planet.

Our Key Consideration

We had to develop an over-engineered extraction fan and cyclone system
which would continuously remove chaff during the roasting process and then separating it from the gas stream before exhausting into the atmosphere.

 

We had to make the AMR Roaster all-electric instead of the conventional
combustion of hydrocarbon-rich fuel for its heat generation.

 

We also developed an Open Chamber Roaster™ or (OCR), creating a gap
between the roast chamber and the extraction hood, allowing ambient air to dilute and cool down the exiting heated air and gases from the roast chamber prior to being exhausted into the atmosphere.

 

We installed solar panels and an inverter system in our factory and can
proudly say that we are totally off the grid and fully independent with electricity supply.

 

We are proud of our achievements so far and continue to work on our mission to make our roasters Better For Our Planet.

 

View emissions testing report here.

Solar Panels on Our Roof

Powering the AMR Factory with clean, renewable energy

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Stacked Battery Inverters

Storing and distributing solar energy from the rooftop

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Dare, to be Extraordin-Air-y!
Ready to start Roasting

on an AMR?

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