
If you’re waiting in line for a lovley refreshing drink of coffee, think about what a fantastic trade the coffee business really is…
Roughly 6,000,000 tonnes of coffee is made across the world; 30-40% of this comes from South America, where about 5,000,000 men and women are employed to work in the coffee manufacturing trade! Considering it takes 5-years for a coffee tree to make it to adulthood, where it produces roughly about a pound of manufatured coffee beans – that’s a big quantity of plants and room taken up by the coffee manufacturers! In actualfact, it is thought that there are around 3 billion coffee trees in South America alone!

Preceeding petrolium, coffee is the most bought and sold commodity in the whole planet; 501 billion mugs are sold every year and an estimated 25,000,000 small traders trade coffee for a living. Since the initial commercial espresso machines were invented until 1933 (by Dr. Ernest Illy), the popularity of coffee has boomed in the last century; more so than anything else outside the electronic industry! That’s not even bearing in mind that it wasn’t until 1946 that the modern day espresso machine was invented, cementing Achilles Gaggia as the father of the commercial coffee machine; or until 1960 that the pump driven espresso machine came about, thanks for the Faema company.