Founded in 1930 in Venice, Italy, Macap (Macine Anichini Caffè Ottorino) is one of Italy's oldest and most prestigious commercial coffee grinder manufacturers.

With nearly a century of dedicated grinding engineering, Macap established its reputation across European espresso bars by designing heavy-duty cast metal grinders with industrial-grade electric motors and precision-cut steel burrs. Renowned for their exceptional mechanical longevity and rock-solid calibration stability, Macap grinders are trusted worldwide by specialty coffee shops, commercial roasteries, and home prosumers who demand reliable, continuous daily performance.

Macap engineers a versatile lineup of on-demand and commercial coffee grinders tailored for different spaces and throughput demands:

• Macap Leo 55 & Leo 55 Essential: The modern prosumer benchmark. Features 55mm flat hardened steel burrs, silent grinding acoustic insulation, a vibrant capacitive touchscreen display for single and double timed dosing, and an ultra-precise stepless micrometric adjustment mechanism.
• Macap M42 & M42D: A commercial workhorse featuring 58mm flat steel burrs and a high-torque direct-drive motor, available in traditional doser (M42) and digital on-demand electronic (M42D) configurations.
• Macap M2 & M2M: A compact, space-conscious prosumer grinder equipped with 50mm flat steel burrs, offering hands-free portafilter activation and manual or timed dosing for home coffee bars.
• Macap MXK & M7K Series: High-throughput commercial titans equipped with massive 63mm to 68mm conical burr sets and low-RPM gear-reduced motors engineered to withstand non-stop morning rush hours in busy cafes and roasteries.

Under 9 bars of pump pressure, minor variations in grind size dramatically alter shot extraction time, flow rate, and flavor balance:

• Infinite Sub-Micron Control: Macap's stepless micrometric system eliminates fixed notched clicks. Using a precision worm-gear or threaded adjustment collar, the barista can make smooth, infinite micro-adjustments to the burr gap.
• Eliminating Stepped Limitations: Traditional stepped grinders force you to choose between two fixed settings—often leaving one step running too fast (sour under-extraction) and the next choking the machine (bitter over-extraction). Macap's stepless control allows you to dial in your target shot time down to the exact second.
• Vibration-Proof Calibration: The heavy-duty collar design stays locked under high-motor vibration, preventing the grind setting from drifting during busy service.

Macap designs both flat and conical burr systems to match specific extraction preferences:

• Macap Flat Burrs (50mm, 55mm on Leo, 58mm on M42): Produce a highly uniform, unimodal particle distribution with minimal stray fines. This maximizes flavor clarity, clean sweetness, vibrant acidity, and origin note separation, making flat burrs ideal for modern light, medium, and single-origin specialty coffees.
• Macap Conical Burrs (63mm/68mm on MXK/M7K): Produce a bimodal particle distribution with deliberate micro-fines that create added hydraulic resistance in the portafilter basket. This produces a thick mouthfeel, heavy syrupy body, and dense, elastic crema—ideal for traditional Italian espresso blends, dark roasts, and rich milk-based lattes and cappuccinos.

Preventative maintenance ensures consistent dosing, protects motors, and preserves burr sharpness:

• Never Use Water on Burrs: Introducing water, liquid cleaners, or wet rags to a coffee grinder causes immediate flash-rusting on steel burrs, clogs the grinding flutes with wet coffee paste, and risks damaging electrical motors.
• Monthly Dry Tablet Cleaning (e.g., Urnex Grindz): Run food-safe, all-natural grain cleaning tablets through the hopper every 4 to 6 weeks. The tablets pass through dry, absorbing rancid coffee oils and purging compacted fines from the burr flutes without altering your grind setting.
• Chute & Chamber Brushing: Periodically remove the bean hopper and top burr carrier to brush and vacuum out the grind chamber and anti-static delivery chute.
• Burr Replacement Intervals: Standard Macap hardened flat steel burrs maintain peak cutting sharpness for 600 to 1,000 lbs of coffee (equivalent to 5–8+ years of home use or 6–12 months in a commercial cafe), while titan conical burrs last for 1,500+ lbs.

Since 1997, 1st-line Equipment has been an authorized direct importer, distributor, and factory-certified technical service center for Macap.

When you buy Macap grinders and parts from 1st-line:

• Genuine 110–120V US-Spec Factory Inventory: Direct factory builds engineered, wired, and safety-certified specifically for North American power standards.
• Rigorous Multi-Point Pre-Shipment Bench Testing: Every prosumer and commercial Macap grinder is unboxed, inspected, and bench-tested for motor alignment and rotational tolerances prior to dispatch.
• Extensive Domestic OEM Parts Hub: Immediate in-stock domestic availability of authentic Macap 50mm, 55mm, 58mm, and 63mm/68mm burr sets, replacement hoppers, doser stars, adjustment collars, capacitors, microswitches, and exploded technical schematics.
• Factory-Trained Technical Support: Direct phone and email assistance from seasoned technicians who specialize in Italian commercial grinder mechanics.
• EspressoPoints Rewards: Earn loyalty reward points on every Macap grinder, replacement burr set, and accessory purchase to redeem on future coffee gear and maintenance supplies.