Heat and Control is reconnecting with Australia’s coffee processors to deliver tailored end-to-end solutions.
From farm to cup, the coffee supply chain faces a complex set of demands — rising costs, narrowing margins, and global market pressures mean efficiency is more critical than ever.
Heat and Control supports coffee and tea processors with a complete portfolio of solutions across preparation, processing, coating, flavouring, drying, roasting, product handling, weighing, inspection, and packaging.
Following its recent debut at Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) 2025 – where the team featured advanced packaging and inspection systems – Heat and Control is reaffirming its commitment to the Australian coffee sector. Its goal: to help processors enhance quality, streamline operations, and remain competitive in an evolving global market.
Founded in 1950, Heat and Control cemented its reputation in Australia’s coffee industry through its partnership with PROBAT coffee roasters during the late 1980s and 1990s. This collaboration positioned the company as a leading supplier of roasting and packaging equipment and a trusted partner to many of the country’s most recognised coffee brands.
Today, Heat and Control’s offering has evolved to meet many of the modern challenges of coffee production. According to Robert Marguccio, Business Manager of Packaging and Inspection Solutions, the company’s portfolio now includes a range of innovative solutions designed to address critical pain points of coffee and tea processors of all sizes.
This includes: foreign object detection to safeguard product quality and reduce waste; seal integrity to prevent leaks and preserve product freshness; minimising product waste by optimising yield through precise handling and portioning; automation and quality control to improve efficiency, accuracy, and compliance; and optimising extraction to enable efficient coffee and tea extraction through integrated systems that manage particle size of roasted coffee beans and tea leaves.
With a deep understanding of the industry’s evolving needs, Heat and Control continues to deliver tailored solutions that help Australian coffee companies stay competitive in a demanding global market.
“People might remember us for our partnership with PROBAT,” says Robert. “But today, Heat and Control is a one-stop shop that goes past just roasting solutions.
“With more than 270 staff across Australia and a manufacturing facility in Brisbane, we don’t just sell equipment — we deliver complete solutions.
“In the past, we were primarily known for packaging and inspection systems, up to the point of getting the coffee into the bag. Now, we’ve expanded our solutions to include integrated systems that support every stage of production — from the initial processing steps right through to final packaging and warehouse readiness.”
Leak and metal detection
With modern technologies like CEIA THS/21 Series metal detectors and Oxipack leak detection systems, Heat and Control aims to help coffee processors reduce product waste while ensuring their products remain fresh, securely sealed, and ready for market.
CEIA metal detectors offer high-sensitivity detection of metal contaminants, even in challenging environments. Designed to minimise interference from both the product and surrounding production conditions, CEIA is said to be the only brand of metal detectors with multispectrum technology, which enhances detection accuracy while reducing product effect errors, false rejects, and unnecessary waste. They also utilise an advanced auto-test function that allows the system to learn from test pieces, recording signal amplitude relative to the coffee product to improve long-term performance.
Meanwhile, the patented Oxipack leak detection system eliminates the need for destructive water bath testing of coffee products. Utilising a non-destructive method, it allows tested products to be returned to the line when they pass. This sustainable leak detection method protects the integrity of products and reduces wastage of tested products.
Weighing and packaging solutions
Check weighing is key to not only delivering a product that contains what consumers expect but to also limiting waste and giveaway of product.
Robert says the Ishida check weighing solutions and multi-head weigher and baggers, coupled with Volpak horizontal stand-up pouching solutions, offer high accuracy, fast production speeds, and minimal giveaway – all while reducing energy consumption.
These solutions are implemented across a broad range of sectors including snacks, confectionary, and pet food, facilitating high-volume, high-speed production.
Robert says Ishida’s reliable automation offers customers a way to reduce costs while maintaining product quality.
“With the way we’re going in Australia with industrial relations and energy prices, our customers need to have a way of reducing costs wherever possible, and I think that is going to incentivise looking at systems like Ishida to include high-quality automation at the back end of production,” he says.
Whether it be for beans or ground coffee, Ishida weighing solutions are designed to deliver greater accuracy to help customers maintain the trust with consumers and limit product giveaway.
“The Ishida multi-head weigher is the most accurate weigher on the market, a claim backed by extensive testing. The core function of the system is to provide the highest accuracy possible and reduce giveaway,” Robert says.
MICE2025 showcase
Heat and Control debuted its packaging and inspection solutions at MICE2025 in March, where it showcased automated and energy-efficient solutions to a broad range of customers within Australia’s coffee industry.
Its decision to showcase at MICE stemmed from the company’s desire to not only meet the evolving challenges being faced by the broader coffee industry but to also provide scalable solutions for coffee businesses of all sizes.
“As a global leader in food processing technologies, we provide fast, accurate, and reliable solutions that help you maintain quality, efficiency, and food safety,” Robert says.
“MICE was a great opportunity for us to reaffirm our expertise and showcase how some of these solutions can assist customers from the start to the end of the process.
“We assist customers in looking at total cost of ownership, we project manage it for them, and we can guarantee performance output – we don’t just walk away.
“We have more than 15 service technicians around Australia, and we can offer peace of mind to be a complete support for as long as the customer needs. Strong, sustained partnerships like these have shaped our journey over the past 75 years – and it’s what will continue to drive our growth for decades to come.”
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This article appears in the June 2025 edition of BeanScene. Subscribe HERE.
