2006
Café Invento Coffee Pad Machine
Client: Inventum
Design: Alfred van Elk, Mars Holwerda
Engineering: Inventum, Corus
Photography: Alfred van Elk
Awards: 2008 / GIO Good Industrial Design Award

For Inventum, Dutch manufacturer of electrical domestic appliances, a new coffee pad machine is designed: Café Invento.
Inventum wanted to stand out between other brands and offer clear user benefits. The design, a ‘wall’ with a removable water reservoir, is compact, user friendly and distinctive. Due to its originality and clarity the product has been successfully introduced to the SDA market. For the housing a new material has been used: Protact, a steel with a polymer coating. This material has a high-quality feel, is easy to clean, scratch- and corrosion resistant and doesn’t show finger prints.

In the project is cooperated with Corus, the steel company that developed Protact. In the product all pad types can be used. The coffee strength can be adjusted.
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