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A contact in Italy recommended
Muthanna and Rempt get in touch
with Queensland-based engineer Geoff
Michelmore. The three men first discussed
the idea over Skype.
“We said to Geoff, ‘You don’t know us,
but we have something to show you. It’s
drastic and could change your life’. Geoff
said if he liked it, he’d do it. If not, he
won’t. But he loved it and joined the team.”
Along with Muthanna, Rempt, and
brand expert Walter Amerika, Geoff
became a Co-founder of Aremde. He
tells BeanScene he was attracted to the
machine’s potential to involve the customer
in the coffee-making process.
“The customer can watch every aspect
of coffee making,” Geoff says. “At cafés
using the Nexus One, we see that patrons
who have ordered coffee are not usually
on their phones as usual while they wait.
They’re actually engaged with what the
barista is doing.”
He says making the design possible
was the easy part, moving the boilers,
heaters, and internal components under
the counter. The challenge, however, was
making it practical.
“Aremde is a design company, so
it leads from that perspective. But the
machine still needs to be functional. It
could not be difficult to make coffee with,”
he says. “This took a lot of time to get right,
from the spacing of group heads to the
alignment of the steam wand.”
Geoff says the placement of the
steam wand, within the window, provides
the barista with complete control ofhow they froth milk.
“You can hold the jug and steam
the milk traditionally, or if you need to
multitask, you can rest it on the platform
inside the coffee machine,” he says.
Geoff says this level of consideration
extended to the touch and feel of the Nexus
One’s buttons, running along the top of the
frame, above the corresponding groups. A
short touch will purge the group head while
a longer push will run the extraction until
pushed again, freeing the barista’s hands.
“We even installed sliding cup tables,
which means the barista can use different
size cups without worrying about breaking
the crema,” he says.
“Using the machine is super easy, but
it’s still a high-end coffee machine, with
a very precise temperature, pressure, and
volumetrics.”
To achieve a consistent weight-based
extraction, Aremde collaborated with
Acaia to develop a set of internal scales for
the Nexus One.
A multi-boiler system and proportional-
integral-derivative controlled heating
ensures its group head temperature is
consistent to 0.2 degrees. Meanwhile,
a steam-thermo cycle rotates steam
through the boiler and valves to maintain
temperature in the steam wand.
The extraction process begins with
a soft pre-infusion, which Geoff says
provides a consistent pour.
“We have a restrictor built into the
flow meter, which reduces the initial
flow of water to the group head. This
allows a small amount of water to infusethe grinds before the restrictor opens for
full extraction,” he says. “This pre-infusion
means the coffee extraction is not done in a
volatile way, so we get a soft and consistent
flow of coffee pouring out of the machine.”
With Geoff developing and building
the machines in Brisbane, the Aremde
team agreed it would be best to base its
headquarters in Australia. When the Nexus
One launched in September 2018, the first
café to install and test the capabilities of
the machine was Queensland’s Extraction
Artisan Coffee. It has since been introduced
across Australia as well as Asia, the Middle
East, and Europe.
“The Nexus One has seen a strong
early response because design is so
important to cafés, especially in Australia,”
Geoff says. “You want every aspect to be
unique, comfortable, and engaging for the
customer. A crucial part of that is getting
the right machine.”
Aremde offers the Nexus One in every
colour of the rainbow, allowing cafés to
customise their equipment. Geoff says the
espresso machine’s components are painted
before final assembly, much like a car.
“Our chassis is made from stainless
steel, so the painting and finish is very
important. To ensure the quality, we use a
paint company that specialises in high-end
vehicles, like Porsches, custom Harley
Davidsons, and hot rods,” he says. “We
wanted to do this at the factory so the
machine’s not disassembled in a workshop
halfway across the world as the Nexus One
gains popularity overseas.”
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TECHNOLOGY PROFILE
A contact in Italy recommended
Muthanna and Rempt get in touch
with Queensland-based engineer Geoff
Michelmore. The three men first discussed
the idea over Skype.
“We said to Geoff, ‘You don’t know us,
but we have something to show you. It’s
drastic and could change your life’. Geoff
said if he liked it, he’d do it. If not, he
won’t. But he loved it and joined the team.”
Along with Muthanna, Rempt, and
brand expert Walter Amerika, Geoff
became a Co-founder of Aremde. He
tells BeanScene he was attracted to the
machine’s potential to involve the customer
in the coffee-making process.
“The customer can watch every aspect
of coffee making,” Geoff says. “At cafés
using the Nexus One, we see that patrons
who have ordered coffee are not usually
on their phones as usual while they wait.
They’re actually engaged with what the
barista is doing.”
He says making the design possible
was the easy part, moving the boilers,
heaters, and internal components under
the counter. The challenge, however, was
making it practical.
“Aremde is a design company, so
it leads from that perspective. But the
machine still needs to be functional. It
could not be difficult to make coffee with,”
he says. “This took a lot of time to get right,
from the spacing of group heads to the
alignment of the steam wand.”
Geoff says the placement of the
steam wand, within the window, provides
the barista with complete control ofhow they froth milk.
“You can hold the jug and steam
the milk traditionally, or if you need to
multitask, you can rest it on the platform
inside the coffee machine,” he says.
Geoff says this level of consideration
extended to the touch and feel of the Nexus
One’s buttons, running along the top of the
frame, above the corresponding groups. A
short touch will purge the group head while
a longer push will run the extraction until
pushed again, freeing the barista’s hands.
“We even installed sliding cup tables,
which means the barista can use different
size cups without worrying about breaking
the crema,” he says.
“Using the machine is super easy, but
it’s still a high-end coffee machine, with
a very precise temperature, pressure, and
volumetrics.”
To achieve a consistent weight-based
extraction, Aremde collaborated with
Acaia to develop a set of internal scales for
the Nexus One.
A multi-boiler system and proportional-
integral-derivative controlled heating
ensures its group head temperature is
consistent to 0.2 degrees. Meanwhile,
a steam-thermo cycle rotates steam
through the boiler and valves to maintain
temperature in the steam wand.
The extraction process begins with
a soft pre-infusion, which Geoff says
provides a consistent pour.
“We have a restrictor built into the
flow meter, which reduces the initial
flow of water to the group head. This
allows a small amount of water to infusethe grinds before the restrictor opens for
full extraction,” he says. “This pre-infusion
means the coffee extraction is not done in a
volatile way, so we get a soft and consistent
flow of coffee pouring out of the machine.”
With Geoff developing and building
the machines in Brisbane, the Aremde
team agreed it would be best to base its
headquarters in Australia. When the Nexus
One launched in September 2018, the first
café to install and test the capabilities of
the machine was Queensland’s Extraction
Artisan Coffee. It has since been introduced
across Australia as well as Asia, the Middle
East, and Europe.
“The Nexus One has seen a strong
early response because design is so
important to cafés, especially in Australia,”
Geoff says. “You want every aspect to be
unique, comfortable, and engaging for the
customer. A crucial part of that is getting
the right machine.”
Aremde offers the Nexus One in every
colour of the rainbow, allowing cafés to
customise their equipment. Geoff says the
espresso machine’s components are painted
before final assembly, much like a car.
“Our chassis is made from stainless
steel, so the painting and finish is very
important. To ensure the quality, we use a
paint company that specialises in high-end
vehicles, like Porsches, custom Harley
Davidsons, and hot rods,” he says. “We
wanted to do this at the factory so the
machine’s not disassembled in a workshop
halfway across the world as the Nexus One
gains popularity overseas.”
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