Specialty roaster Allpress Coffee has opened a new production roastery in Reservoir, Melbourne, and confirmed a second new roastery for Tottenham in London, moves the company says will improve energy efficiency and supply resilience for its network of more than 1,500 partner cafés worldwide.
The Melbourne site, in the northern suburb of Reservoir, began supplying local customers in March 2026, consolidating roasting operations previously split between Allpress facilities in Collingwood and Sydney’s Zetland, according to BeanScene, the company’s own blog, and coverage in Food & Drink Business. Allpress stated on its blog that the Collingwood roastery had been in use for 12 years and Zetland had roasted on Epsom Road for more than 20 years.
The Reservoir roastery has been fitted with one 240-kilogram and one 120-kilogram IMF Hot Air Roaster, the company detailed in its blog post. Allpress wrote that its older roasting equipment was showing wear after 30 years and had become less reliable, and it described the new facilities as designed to improve energy efficiency and strengthen supply chain resilience, a point also highlighted by Food & Drink Business.
Global Director Nicola Richardson said in interviews with Food & Drink Business, Food & Beverage Industry News and NUFFOODS Spectrum ASIA that “these new roasteries allow us to scale sustainably while protecting what matters most: the integrity of our coffee and the relationships behind it.” She added that Allpress is “guided by long-term partnerships, uncompromising standards, and a commitment to brewing better days for our people, cafés, communities, and the planet.”
Richardson told BeanScene and Food & Drink Business that Allpress “continues to perform ahead of the market across multiple regions,” and described the company’s growth as “steady and considered expansion in the right places, with the right partners,” spanning farmers Allpress has worked with for decades and the cafés it supplies daily. The company was founded more than 30 years ago in New Zealand and now operates in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and Singapore, according to BeanScene and the Allpress blog.
In London, Allpress plans to open a new roastery in Tottenham in mid-2026, alongside a new branded café in Farringdon scheduled for around the same time, BeanScene and Food & Drink Business reported. The company stated that the cafés at Zetland and Collingwood will continue trading without on-site roasting equipment once production is fully transferred to the new Melbourne facility.
Head Roaster and Global Head of Coffee Cam McFadyen said the new IMF machines were “super impressive” and that the roasting team was “hitting our profile straight out of the box,” in comments to BeanScene. Speaking to Food & Drink Business and Food & Beverage Industry News, McFadyen reported that one team member described coffee from the new roasteries as tasting like Allpress’s Espresso Blend or A.R.T. blend “on a really good day,” and he said the equipment helps the company achieve “the rich sweetness, balance, and clarity that have always defined Allpress Coffee” more consistently.
Allpress coffee is now served at over 1,500 independent cafés worldwide and is sold online for at-home brewing, according to Food & Drink Business. BeanScene further noted that the business recently opened a café with a training and cupping space in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley and reported that Allpress has discussed further expansion in Japan, where it already operates a roastery and café in Tokyo’s Kiyosumi Shirakawa and a second café in Toranomon.
The company’s own blog recorded that the Melbourne roastery had initially been planned to open in late 2025, while BeanScene reported that production in Reservoir ultimately began supplying customers in March 2026.
