The Roest P3000 roaster. All photos courtesy of Roest.

Norwegian espresso roasting tools maker Roest is now taking pre-orders for its long-anticipated 3-kilo-capacity manufacturing roasting machine known as P3000.

Priced at €32,900 EUR ($35,486 USD as of this writing), the P3000 might be restricted to 100 items in 2025, with 50 of these already claimed. Extra pre-orders will start transport in 2026.

The absolutely automated convection roasting machine represents the second main all-new mannequin launch for Roest, which launched gross sales of its first 100-gram capability mannequin — designed primarily for pattern roasting — eight years in the past. 

The P3000 options Roest’s computerized first crack detection options, in addition to an inside digicam system that tracks and transmits the altering colour and measurement of the beans as roasts progress.

Greater than 15 extra sensors contained in the machine collect temperature and airflow information. All of this info is digested by a proprietary AI algorithm designed to robotically adapt and execute roast profiles. Between-batch resets enable for back-to-back roasting effectivity.

“We’ve spent the previous a number of years perfecting the P3000, bringing every thing we’ve realized from our award-winning pattern roasters into the world of manufacturing roasting,” Roest CEO Trond Simonsen stated in an announcement of the launch immediately. “We name it the last word overachiever as a result of it’s not only a roaster; it’s a precision device that empowers companies to roast smarter, sooner and with unparalleled consistency.”

No instruments are required to entry inside parts for cleansing and upkeep. After meeting in Roest’s headquarters in Norway, the P3000 unit stands 31.8 inches tall, 17.5 inches large and 37.5 inches deep. The corporate describes the footprint as akin to a 2-group business espresso machine.

The P3000 arrives roughly two years after Roest’s earlier {hardware} rollout, the L100 mannequin pattern roaster. That machine featured upgrades for compatibility with the Roest’s on-line platform that gives information storage, profile automation options and real-time graphical views of roasts.

The P3000 machine joins a rising subject of small-batch electrical roasters which are equally large on automation. The P3000 lands as a higher-capacity various to the 1.5-kilo-capacity Bellwether Store Roaster and the 1.2-kilo-capacity Aillio Bullet R2 Professional machines, which each got here out final 12 months. Swiss startup Mikafi revealed the web-intensive 1.25-kilo-capacity MikafiOne roaster in late 2023. A totally automated 2-kilo-capacity countertop manufacturing roaster known as the AiO, by Bullet roaster maker Aillio, stays in improvement.

Based in Oslo in 2014, Roest has since launched three variations of its authentic machine, together with the L100 that was awarded a Finest New Product award at SCA Expo in Boston in 2022.

That very same 12 months the corporate revealed its framework for a 2-kilo prosumer design known as the P2000 that it reintroduced one 12 months later because the P3000. Roest introduced a working prototype P3000 to point out off on the SCA Expo in Chicago final 12 months. Following a interval of refinement and beta testing by roasters at Norwegian corporations resembling Tim Wendelboe and Hibi Kaffe, the ultimate manufacturing model might be on show at Roest’s sales space on the 2025 SCA Expo in Houston subsequent month. 

Lauren Alkire, Roest’s interim head of selling, informed Each day Espresso Information the corporate additionally plans on releasing an accompanying electrical afterburner later this 12 months.

“We’re wanting very a lot ahead to exhibiting the ultimate product,” Alkire informed DCN. “We may have offsite roasting periods [during SCA in Houston] for these .”

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