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Industrial coffee grinder from China

A capacity figure for a coffee grinder means nothing without the grind it was measured at, because a mill that passes its top rate on coarse filter coffee may deliver a fraction of it on espresso fineness, and heat from the rollers rises as it does.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 1 October 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Roller mill or burr grinder

Industrial lines usually grind with pairs of corrugated rollers in stages; large flat or conical burr grinders suit smaller batches. Rollers give a narrower particle spread. Ask which principle, how many stages, and why for your grind.

Capacity at your grind size

One listing gave 200 to 1,000 kg an hour across a whole model range. Ask for the rate on one model at your target particle size, measured on roasted coffee.

Heat and cooling

Grinding warms the coffee and drives off aroma. Ask whether the rollers are water cooled and what coffee temperature at the outlet was measured.

Roller wear and re-cutting

Corrugations wear and the grind drifts coarser. Ask the roller material, expected tonnes before re-cutting, and whether re-cutting is possible in Europe.

Normalising and dust

Some mills add a mixer after the rollers to even out density. Fine coffee dust in an enclosed space needs extraction; ask the airflow the machine expects.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Your roasted coffee as a sample, with roast level, since darker roasts grind differently.
Target particle size for each product, espresso to coarse filter, as a sieve or laser result.
Kilos per hour at each grind, and hours per day.
What follows the grinder: degassing silo, packing machine or bulk bags.
Three-phase supply and cooling water available on site.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Grind your coffee at your finest and coarsest settings, timing a weighed quantity at each.	Throughput at each grind recorded in kg per hour and at or above the quoted figure for that grind.
Sieve or laser-analyse samples from the start and end of each run.	Particle size distribution inside your specification, with the end of the run matching the start.
Measure coffee temperature at the outlet during the finest grind.	Outlet temperature at or below the limit you set before the test, with cooling running.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with model and serial number.
Food contact evidence under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for rollers, housing and discharge.
Roller drawings with corrugation profile and material, for re-cutting or replacement.

The one people forget. The roller corrugation drawing. Without it a European workshop cannot re-cut worn rollers to the same grind, and you depend on shipping rollers back.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your search returns cafe grinders with hoppers of a kilo or two.

Those are shop grinders; for production you need a roller mill or a large burr grinder rated in kg per hour.

You grind a few batches a week for your own packing.

A large commercial flat burr grinder. A roller mill needs steady volume to pay back its setup.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 2Two coffee roller mill listings, checked October 2026, stated 200 to 1,000 kg an hour and 20 to 1,000 kg an hour across their model ranges, grind from 8 to 80 mesh, and motors from 0.75 to 11 kW. Asking prices ran from US$2,500 to US$80,000.
Listings · 10Ten listings returned by a commercial coffee grinder search on one marketplace, checked October 2026, were cafe grinders asking up to US$410. None stated kg per hour.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.
GAPGAP - no listing stated capacity at a named grind size. A test report at espresso and filter grind would close it.

Related machines.

Coffee roasting machine. Read it first if the roast is not yet settled, since grind is set after it.
Coffee bean packing machine. Choose it if you sell whole beans and the grinder can wait.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Coffee & tea page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European industrial coffee grinder: what really differs?+

Roller precision, corrugation quality and cooling. Compare particle spread on your coffee, not the kg per hour on the listing.

What goes on an industrial coffee grinder inspection checklist?+

Timed throughput at each grind, sieve or laser results, outlet temperature, roller gap adjustment and locking, guards on drives, and the serial number.

What EU compliance applies to an industrial coffee grinder?+

A Declaration of Conformity under 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027 or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 after, with 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU, plus Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for coffee-contact parts.

Who is the importer of the grinder?+

The business placing it on the EU market. It checks the conformity documents and adds its name and address.

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