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illy Coffee

Founder Francesco Illy significantly improved the espresso machine & introduced a pressurizing system to conserve the blend, making a name for himself as a producer of high quality espresso coffee. He gave it his name and a mission:

"To offer the entire world the best coffee on earth"

The illycaffe group exports to over 70 countries on all 5 continents. The whole family's commitment to spreading the espresso culture, its desire to offer an exceptional product not only when it leaves the plant but also when it is poured into your cup, has never changed. An inimitable pleasure that is repeated more than 5 million times every day around the world.

It's impressive, if you consider that illycaffe produces a single, exclusive blend of 100 percent Arabica . Just imagine if you lived in Paris, New York and Fiji, what a great joy it would be to find all the aroma and quality of illy coffee in your cup. It's all due to pressurisation, patented by Francesco Illy, a special way of packaging that maintains the coffee's characteristics and preserves its full fragrance and freshness for up to 3 years. Whether it's whole beans or ground, or whether it's our normal, dark roast or decaffeinated, illy quality does not change.

When you open an illy container or sit down with a cup of illy coffee, let your senses and your spirit be overwhelmed with the aroma.

illy's Relationship with Quality

The foundations of the illy philosophy- are ethics and passion for excellence, ethics being the enhancing of values over time through transparency, honesty and respect for others and its passion for excellence being a love of aesthetics and a job well done. Passion for quality is, therefore, a basic and fundamental value for the company and lays the ground for their strategies and production processes. illy is a worldwide leader in quality. It is open to change and aims at overcoming its own limits in order to improve growth. Its challenge is therefore to compete with itself for continual improvement.

It is important to note that:

From the arrival of the raw coffee beans to the shipment of its tins, illy beans undergo 114 checks.

illy is the only roasting company in the world that can boast double certification for its product and quality system; Qualite France and ISO 9001.

Through electronic screening technology inspection, imperfect beans are discarded so that an illy espresso coffee is made from 50 beans that are absolutely perfect more...