Mill City Roasters’ new 40,000sq ft facility in Northeast Minneapolis | Photo credit: Mill City Roasters

Minnesota-based coffee roaster manufacturer Mill City Roasters has announced it will move to a new 40,000sq ft facility in Northeast Minneapolis in October 2024. 
 

In a press release, Mill City said the renovated mid-century-style building will be key to establishing Minneapolis as ‘the Midwest hub of specialty coffee’ in the US.  

The site will house Mill City’s headquarters, training centre and manufacturing plant, which will enable the business to move more of its offshore coffee roaster and equipment manufacturing from China to the US. 

Mill City currently assembles the chassis, panels and fuel systems of its roasters at an assembly facility in Shenzhen and sources other components from Europe and East Asia. 

The new site will also house a 5,000sq ft commercial roastery, which will enable Mill City will expand its private label roasting and green coffee evaluation programmes. 

Founded in 2013, Mill City specialises in manufacturing machinery and tools for specialty coffee roasters. Its MCR line of roasters have batch capacities of 1kg-60kg, while the higher-volume MCR-60 can roast over 3,400lbs (1,540kg) of coffee per day. 

Mill City’s specialty coffee clients include Georgia-based Portrait Coffee, Ohio’s River Roasters Coffee, Frame Coffee Co in Texas, Connecticut-based Silk City Roasters and Iowa’s Blk & Bld.  

International clients include UAE-based Doppio Roasters, Ireland’s Pinecone Roasters, Czech Republic-based Candy Cane and Japan’s Koyanagi Coffee. 

Mill City will convert its current manufacturing facility in Minneapolis into a fully-staffed co-roasting space for local coffee entrepreneurs and is 'actively seeking’ interested partners to manage the space.