Pinecone debuts Redwood production grinder in U.S. for nonstop coffee operations

Pinecone used World of Coffee San Diego to give the Redwood its official U.S. debut, putting a grinder built for nonstop production in front of buyers who care more about grind consistency and uptime than countertop looks.

Now sold in the United States through GH Grinding and Brewing Solutions for $8,500, the Redwood is aimed at coffee packers, capsule lines and high-throughput roasters. Pinecone says the machine can handle up to 30 kilograms of beans in its hopper and grind at a rate of up to 3 kilograms per minute, with remote monitoring, adjustment, start and stop functions that fit industrial operations where every pause costs output.

The company built the Redwood around the same modular grind chamber used in its Siberian commercial grinder, pairing it with 120-millimeter flat burrs and a brushless DC motor. Two dedicated cooling fans, one for the grind chamber and one for the motor, are meant to keep the machine moving without heat buildup or interruptions. Buyers can choose either a 10-kilogram or 30-kilogram hopper depending on the scale of the line.

Founder Ilan Maimon framed the launch as a way to translate Siberian engineering into a form that reads immediately as a heavy-duty workhorse. That matters at this end of the market, where a grinder has to do more than make good coffee. It has to deliver the same particle distribution hour after hour, keep operators from babysitting the machine and stay stable as packaging runs stretch across shifts.

The Redwood had already been shown at MICE in Melbourne and Hotelex in Shanghai before reaching San Diego, but the U.S. debut places Pinecone squarely in a segment that is getting harder to ignore as coffee formats diversify. Capsule production, bulk retail bags and other high-volume channels all depend on grinders that can deliver precision at scale, and Pinecone is betting that industrial buyers will pay for a machine that combines smart serviceability with sustained output.