A truly digital generation of coffee roasting
At Café La Flor de Córdoba, roasting isn’t something that changes overnight. It’s something that evolves—generation by generation.
Each step builds on the previous one: refining profiles, improving consistency, understanding the product better. But always with one constraint: the result still needs to taste like your coffee.
That same principle shows up in the development of the Px120 from PROBAT.
Improving what works, not replacing it
The Px120 wasn’t designed to replace traditional roasting. It was designed to carry it forward. As Probat describes it in the video below, the machine was created as a fusion between industrial roasting and modern control systems, combining mechanical expertise with a completely new software layer.
Just like a family business: You keep what defines the product, but you improve how it is controlled and reproduced.
A new generation of control
Where earlier generations of roasters relied heavily on operator experience, the Px120 introduces a new level of process control. Key parameters—air flow, temperature, energy input—are managed precisely, allowing reproducible results across batches. At the same time, the control system itself has been rethought:
- built from scratch using modern web-based technologies
- designed for intuitive interaction and recipe management
The shift is subtle, but important: from knowing how to roast → to being able to repeat it exactly
The moment that still matters
Whether it’s a family business or a new machine, one moment remains the same: the first roast.
- Is it homogeneous?
- Does the flavour develop evenly?
- Does it still taste right?
That’s where generations meet: Tradition defines what “right” is, technology ensures you can reach it—every time
What this means for growing roasters
Many roasters today are in a similar position:
- expanding volumes
- broader product ranges
- higher expectations on consistency
The question becomes familiar:
How do you move to the next generation—
without losing what made your coffee successful in the first place?
That’s exactly the transition Café La Flor made—and what the Px120 was built to support.
