Vibiemme Evolution 2016

We prepare espresso and espresso-based coffees almost by hand with our sieve support machine, a Vibiemme Evolution, one of the last to leave the factory in Milan in 2016.

VBM (Vibiemme) has designed, manufactured and sold espresso machines worldwide since January 12 1976. VBM has its roots in the espresso machine company FAEMA from Milan. The founder of FAEMA, Carlo Ernesto Valente, had revolutionized the coffee industry since 1945 with innovative technique that is used in espresso machines to this day. During the 70s, FAEMA was considered one of the best in the business. Financial problems led to its downfall and the company was handed over to the Italian state in 1976. Valente didn't give up that easily. He regrouped and established a new company: Vibiemme. That's the Italian pronunciation of V-B-M after the three men in FAEMAs management board: V (Valente), B (Biancolini) and M (Meroni). The philosophy of the highest quality behind every part of an espresso machine led to perfection. Valente was the inventor of the socalled E61 brew group, wich is still in use today. He invented the E-61 brewhead in 1961, a year that featured a solar Eclipse, thus the name: E for eclipse and 61 for the year.

Our 2016 Evolution is bi-colored in a dark red (amaranth) and grey. This combination sounds in Italian language similar to a could be wine breed, amaranto grigio. 

Luckily, all spare parts are still available.

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