Cimbali launches Supera and Mazzer x Slayer grinder at London festival

Cimbali Group turned the London Coffee Festival into a clear statement about where café equipment is heading next: toward faster workflows, tighter dose control and more automation without losing flexibility on the counter. The company brought the LaCimbali Supera to the UK market and unveiled a new Mazzer x Slayer grinder at The Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, where the festival ran from May 14 to 17, 2026 and expected more than 22,000 visitors across 275 artisan coffee and gourmet food brands.

Supera is the bigger operational play. Cimbali has positioned the platform in two versions, Senso and Dolcevita, for hotels, international chains, QSRs, convenience stores and independent cafés that need speed and standardization as much as drink quality. Both versions are built around a compact footprint, with dimensions of 382 to 383 mm wide, 645 mm deep and 799 mm high, and both can be configured with up to two or four coffee hoppers. Cimbali says the machine can handle up to 350 cups a day and around 200 espresso drinks an hour, which makes the target audience obvious: operators dealing with volume, staff turnover and limited room for error.

Dolcevita pushes that logic further with automatic grinder adjustment, an empty hopper sensor, cold milk foam and a more advanced milk system. In Cimbali’s framing, the machine is less about barista theater and more about simplifying workflows, reducing mistakes and cutting training demands, while still allowing venues to tailor the customer experience.

The grinder launch tells a different but related story. The Mazzer x Slayer is the first result of a long-term partnership between the two brands, first shown during Grind Chronicles in Milan on March 27 and 28. It uses 69 mm conical burrs with Mazzer’s ZZ geometry, plus a grind-by-weight system and integrated load cell, a setup aimed at better particle uniformity, dose consistency and less waste. That combination fits the growing view in specialty coffee that grinding and extraction have to be treated as one connected workflow, not separate pieces of equipment.

Cimbali also used the festival to underline the reach of its portfolio, with LaCimbali, Slayer, Faema and Casadio all on show. Louise Felton, Cimbali Group’s regional director for the UK and Ireland, said the festival was a “key moment” because it brought two global innovations to the UK market for the first time. For cafés watching where the industry is moving, the message was hard to miss: the next wave of kit is being sold on integration, not spectacle.