Mr. Li's mumbling in the workshop
The factory has been very lively recently. After receiving the last batch of visiting customers, I squatted at the door of the workshop and sipped strong tea, and my mind was still full of those shining coffee packaging machines. If you ask me, our business is like making coffee-outsiders see black beans in and fragrant powder out, and the doorway of controlling the temperature inside really needs to be seen with your own eyes to understand.
Last month's open day really opened everyone's eyes. More than 20 coffee brands and distributors crowded in front of the assembly line, holding up their phones to take pictures of our vertical coffee packaging machine being assembled. Engineer Wang joked while tightening the screws: "This machine is not filled with parts, but with customized solutions for the coffee industry that our masters have accumulated for ten years!" The customers laughed - who would have thought that the equipment in front of them that can accurately package coffee powder was just a sketch drawn by a Brazilian farm owner at an exhibition three years ago?
Equipment that comes from the aroma of roasted beans
When taking customers through the material area, there are always people with sharp noses who can smell it: "This smell... medium-roasted Colombian beans?" Hey, they know the goods! We don't need to simulate powder when debugging the coffee packaging machine, we can directly grind real beans. Last year, we customized a nitrogen-filled packaging machine for a farm in Yunnan. It was because we found during testing that ordinary equipment would crush the silver skin of lightly roasted beans that we redesigned the flexible pressure system. Now the drip coffee packaged by that machine can keep its aroma for three more months on the shelf.
Walking to the middle of the smart packaging workshop, the new interns were demonstrating the "extreme challenge" of coffee bean packaging equipment to customers. Pour the coffee powder mixed with crushed beans into the hopper, and watch the weighing module automatically screen out impurities, and the accuracy did not drop by half a percentage point. Mr. Lin from Shanghai stared at the display screen and smacked his lips: "If my imported equipment had this ability, I would not have been complained about because of the mixing of crushed beans on Double Eleven last year."
The seriousness hidden in the screw seams
Don't think that our workshop is noisy all day long. When it comes to the quality inspection of packaging equipment, even the breathing sound can be heard. On the open day, it happened to be a random inspection. Xiao Liu from the quality inspection team held an endoscope and shone it into the gap of the sealing strip of the coffee packaging machine. He looked like a dentist checking tooth decay. Someone in the customer group whispered: "Do you have to be so picky?" Master Zhang, who was rehired by us after retirement, heard it and took apart a repaired machine on the spot: "See this circle of water stains? It's just that the seal is 0.1 mm off, and the coffee powder will clump in three months!"
This picky attitude actually won us a big order. The customer from Zhejiang was just stopping by to take a look, but he stayed in the aging test area for two hours. Seeing that the coffee packaging machine was still packing more than 300 bags without any error, he decided on the spot to hand over their new cold brew coffee liquid production line to us - it is said that they were impressed by our hard-working spirit of adjusting even the direction of the packaging machine's heat dissipation outlet to the characteristics of coffee.
The smell of fireworks in the coffee aroma
The most lively area on the open day was the machine test experience area. Customers rushed to stuff their own beans into the coffee packaging machine, Ethiopian sun-dried beans, Indonesian cat feces beans, Yunnan Pu'er beans... The packaged sample bags piled up into a small mountain in the lounge. Xiao Zhao, a post-90s maker from Guangzhou, jumped up and down holding the hanging ear bag packed by his machine: "This heat seal is smoother than the ones I touched at the exhibition!"
It rained heavily just before the end of get off work, and seven or eight customers stayed in the workshop and refused to leave, asking questions around the coffee packaging machine that was undergoing moisture-proof testing. I simply moved the coffee roaster to grind a batch of beans. The aroma of coffee mixed with the smell of engine oil in the workshop, brewing a special kind of fireworks. Sister Li from Beijing held a coffee cup and sighed: "I always thought that the packaging machine was a metal box, but today I finally understand - this is clearly a house built for each coffee bean!"
Watching the taillights of the last batch of customers disappear in the rain, I was so happy to flip through the message book of the day. Some drew pictures of coffee cups, some left contact information, and one Taiwanese customer wrote in traditional Chinese characters: "It turns out that a good coffee packaging machine can breathe." If you ask me, I'll have to put up a sign at the door of the workshop on the next open day: Be careful not to fall in love with these iron guys - after all, the sunshine and rain from more than 30 coffee producing regions flow through their bodies!
