Bringing modern coffee science
to heritage drum roasting, and now...
made in the USA
A new era for Mill City Roasters
Made in Minneapolis
We are excited to announce that our first batch of US-made coffee roasters will be shipping in Fall of 2025. You can expect the same durability, reliability and advanced machine control we’ve always offered on the MCR-Series roasters. The biggest difference is all fabrication is done at our facility at 401 Harding Street NE in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
When we started building in China in 2013, it wasn't because we didn’t know how to build ourselves. We were building in China to get you a better system at a lower cost so more of you could launch businesses that would support your families and the people around you. Now that the world has changed and everything costs more, we’re making sure that you still get more than you pay for by doing the work ourselves.
Like so much else we do (and as it turns out, somewhat unique to our industry), we’re not jobbing any part of the fabrication out. We’re precision laser cutting sheet metal and plate steel on our 6000 watt fiber laser. Forming, pre-bending and rolling out 100% of our chassis, cooling tray and chaff collector components on our own 140 ton CNC press brake and plate rollers. Weldments are precision laser, mig and tig welded on our bench with our equipment by our welding and fabrication team. Faceplates, stirring arms, drum adjustment components are all CNC milled and CNC turned in-house on 3- and 4-axis machining and turning centers.
Our expanded capability in the hands of our close-knit team has opened our view of the future and the many ways we can be better partners to you and your roastery.
We can't wait to show you more.
faq on coffee roasters made in Minneapolis
Yes, the most substantive changes are:
- Removal of cooling tray cover: US-made machines will have advanced stirring motor clutch packs that allow us to safely remove the cooling tray covers which will improve visibility of the cooling tray and the overall aesthetics of the roaster.
- Conversion to touchscreen: The US-made coffee roasters will have a hybrid control panel that combines the flexibility of a touchscreen with the precision of physical inputs. Featuring customizable on-screen controls, dedicated function buttons, and a jog wheel with haptic feedback.
- Custom-fabricated “silent” exhaust and cooling tray fans: In-house developed centrifugal blowers reduce sound at full output to quiet conversational levels and practically eliminates fouling.
- All 3-phase VFD motors: drum fans and stirring arms. Eliminates start and run capacitors and protects against motor failures.
- Quieter direct drive drum motors.
- Relocation of the roaster exhaust fan for more flexibility of venting and scent reduction system compatibility.
- More options for custom colors and integrated logos to match your roastery branding.
No. We've vertically integrated our new facility so everything (except powder-coating) is done under one roof. This allows the US-made models to be very competitively priced, even against our legacy models.
We are currently taking deposits for US-made MCR-6 and MCR-10 so those are our first focus. If you're interested in either of these, you may want to get a deposit in - about half of the MCR-6 are already spoken for.
Availability of the other models will follow as our engineering team works through all the details.
Yes, absolutely. Our team at the fabrication facility in Shenzhen continues to do outstanding work at a very high-level and is the only lab-certified coffee roaster manufacturer in China. Legacy models built at this location are an incredible value for buyers in countries outside the US that aren't exposed to US tariff policy.
Yes, our Minneapolis fabrication facility was approved as a CSA-certified facility in early 2025. We also are a UL-certified panel shop. Our machines can be installed anywhere where CSA or UL certification is required.
We know it seems like this is a response to the latest round of tariffs and that has definitely impacted our plans but we've been working on this for a few years. Being able to fabricate our own roasters is why we moved to this new facility.
As they say, it's an overnight development, four years in the making.
Welcome to Minneapolis
This is our mill city
Powered by the mighty Mississippi River and fed by boxcars of grain rolling in from the plains, the industrial growth in the 1800s gave Minneapolis bragging rights as the “Milling Capital of the World" or "Mill City". We are proud to be part of the historical cross-section between manufacturing and agriculture in the Midwest.
