# European espresso machines

> European espresso machine makers: La Marzocco, Rancilio, La Pavoni, Lelit, Rocket, ECM, Olympia Express and Jura. Italy leads; Switzerland and Germany keep pace.

European espresso machine brands worth knowing | Euronomy

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Espresso is one of the few large global product categories where Italy still completely dominates. The professional café machine on the counter of almost any serious coffee shop in the world, whether in Tokyo, Brooklyn or Berlin, is overwhelmingly likely to be Italian. La Marzocco (Florence), Rancilio (Milan), Faema/Cimbali (Milan), La Pavoni (Milan), Lelit (Brescia), Bezzera (Milan) and Rocket Espresso (Milan) between them cover roughly the whole spectrum from £400 home machines to £30,000+ commercial multi-group setups. Plus the Italian moka-pot tradition and a separate sub-genre of prosumer home machines that bring café-grade engineering to enthusiast kitchens.

The Swiss and German outliers each occupy a clear niche: Jura (Switzerland) for super-automatic bean-to-cup machines that grind and brew at the press of a button, Olympia Express (Switzerland) for hand-built lever machines that have been continuously refined since the 1940s, and ECM Manufacture (Germany) for prosumer dual-boiler machines that compete with the Italian flagships on engineering.

Below: ten European espresso-machine makers worth knowing across home prosumer, café professional, lever and super-automatic categories. Italy anchors; Switzerland and Germany contribute the most credible non-Italian alternatives.