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2025 Year in Review

2025 Year In Review: New Coffee Roasting Equipment and Tech

Roasteries large and small grew increasingly full of hot air this year, with multiple innovations emerging from makers of fluid-bed coffee roasting equipment. Artificial intelligence also continued its unrelenting flood...
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2025 Year in Review

Here Are 26 New Roasters to Support in 2026

2025 was an exceptionally weird year to start a coffee roasting business in the United States.  Coffee prices were already elevated, pushed by climate change, labor constraints, higher production costs...
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Arty Ranaweera

Three Questions with Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera of Cafe Secret Alley in Sri Lanka

When Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera opened Cafe Secret Alley in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 2017, he knew next to nothing about coffee. “Sri Lanka didn’t have a coffee culture,” Ranaweera said....
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Baobab Fare

Coffee From Burundi Finds a Welcoming Home in Detroit at Soko by Baobab Fare

  Former asylum seekers turned restaurateurs are extending a Burundi-to-Detroit pipeline of food, culture and coffee through Soko by Baobab Fare. Hamissi Mamba and his wife, Nadia Nijimbere, arrived in...
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Business Operations

Fable Roasters Comes to Life in St. Cloud, Minnesota

  St. Cloud, Minnesota-based Kinder Coffee Lab spun off its roasting operation into a standalone company earlier this year under the name Fable Roasters, with a new production roastery now...
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acquisitions

Hermetheus Coffee Acquires Roaster Maker Coffee Crafters

  Idaho-based fluid-bed roasting equipment company Coffee Crafters is changing ownership, with Jason Scott, founder of roasting company Hermetheus Coffee, taking the helm. Based in Olathe, Kansas, Scott is the...
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Bill Kennedy

Bill Kennedy, San Franciscan Roaster Owner and Educator, Dies

San Franciscan Roaster Co. announced the death of owner, president and CEO Bill Kennedy, a former school principal who later championed small roasters and U.S. manufacturing. “The loss of Bill...
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Business Operations

Standing Wave Coffee Aims to Beat the Rush in Pittsburgh

Paddling into Pittsburgh with fresh roasts and quality brews is Standing Wave Coffee, a new cafe with a Probat P12 machine humming on site and a strong connection to the...
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Bridgeton

Dear Green Coffee Roasters Grows in Glasgow

Dear Green Coffee Roasters, the 2025 Micro Roaster of the Year, has gotten substantially less micro with the opening of a new 13,500-square-foot production headquarters in its home city of...
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acquisitions

Caffe Luxxe Acquired by Sugarfina in $24.5 Million Stock Deal

Premium candy chain Sugarfina has acquired Los Angeles-based specialty coffee company Caffe Luxxe in a deal valued at approximately $24.5 million. The 100% common stock deal involves a reverse triangular...
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