FAEMA

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FAEMA
legal form Corporation
founding 1945
Seat Binasco ItalyItalyItaly 
Branch domestic appliances
Website faema.it

FAEMA espresso machine

FAEMA is an Italian company that manufactures and sells espresso machines and accessories. FAEMA is an acronym for Fabbrica Apparecchiature Elettro Meccaniche e Affini (German for "factory for electromechanical devices and the like"). The company was founded in 1945 by Carlo Ernesto Valente in Milan and was taken over in 1995 by the Gruppo Cimbali - one of the largest competitors.

History and technology

In the 1950s, FAEMA began producing reciprocating machines with a horizontal boiler , as was typical of the time.

In 1961 FAEMA launched the E61 , which was developed by Ernesto Valente. It was named after the solar eclipse in 1961 (Italian Eclisse 1961). Back then, the E61 brought many innovations and continues to set standards today. For the first time , the E61 used a mechanical rotary vane pump that delivered a water pressure of nine bar . Since FAEMA installed a heat exchange pipe that runs through the steam boiler and thus heats the water, it was possible to feed cold water through the rotary vane pump. The hot water then reaches the newly constructed brewing group via a diffusion block , through which warm water flows to control the temperature. After it was produced until 1966, the E61 was replaced by the E64 and E66 models.

The great success of the E61 led to the fact that all brew groups are called E61 with the same principle, including those built by other manufacturers. A renaissance of the brew group began in the 1990s. For the 40th anniversary in 2001, the Faema E61 was modified as the E61 Jubile and E61 Legend and put back into production and is still in production today.

Cycling

Like many Italian companies, FAEMA has a long history of sponsoring cycling. The company sponsored the five-time winner of the Tour de France Eddy Merckx .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Background information on the E61 . domobarista.de. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ History of FAEMA on the company website . faema.it. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  3. ^ The team from 1968 with Eddy Merckx . cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved March 11, 2012.