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

Commissioned by Inventum, Dutch manufacturer of electrical domestic appliances, a new coffee pad machine has been designed for the SDA market: Café Invento HK10.
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 a distinctive addition to the small domestic appliances market. Due to its original and timeless character the product has been successfully introduced to the consumer market in Europe and abroad.
In the project has been cooperated with Corus, the steel company that developed Protact. This new material, steel with a polymer coating, has been selected for all housing parts. Protact, produced with Corus' PIF technology, has a high-quality feel, is easy to clean, is scratch- and corrosion resistant and doesn’t show finger prints.
In the appliance all pad types can be used.
The coffee strength can be adjusted.
Inventum Corus Tata Steel