Inventum and Corus developed a new coffee padmachine designed by studioMOM
For Inventum, Dutch manufacturer of electrical domestic appliances, studioMOM designed a new coffee padmachine: Café Invento. Inventum wanted to stand out between other brands and offer clear user benefits.
StudioMOM’s
design, a ‘wall’ with a removable water reservoir, is compact,
user friendly and distinctive. Also new is the material: Protact, a steel
with a polymer coating. This material has a high-quality feel, is easy
to clean, scratch- and corrosion resistant and doesn’t show finger
prints.
In the project is cooperated with Corus, the steel company that developed
Protact. In the product all pad types can be used. The coffee strength
can be adjusted.
Novel joining technique: PIF
Also, Inventum and
Corus decided to produce the coffee and tea maker with a novel joining
technique: polymer-injection-forming (PIF). This technique, developed
by Corus, allows to integrate the structural stiffness of steel and the
versatility of polymer injection. Rather than assembling the appliance
from separate steel and plastic parts, the design works with hybrid steel-plastic
parts created by PIF.
In so doing,
PIF allows to:
- reduce the volume
of polymers by exploiting the structural stiffness of steel
- reduce the number of processing steps by directly injecting parts onto
the steel
- reduce the number of moulds.