Thermoplan

Thermoplan is a Swiss professional coffee-equipment company headquartered in Weggis, in the Canton of Lucerne. The company describes itself as a family business and says it has grown from a small family enterprise into an internationally active developer and manufacturer of fully automatic coffee machines. Its products are designed for professional use in food service and other commercial businesses, rather than being presented primarily as domestic appliances. The company emphasizes Swiss production and quality. It says its coffee machines are manufactured at its Weggis headquarters and that around 80 percent of the components used are made in Switzerland. Thermoplan also highlights a combination of technology and skilled handwork, with product priorities including ease of use and maintenance. Its stated customer reach spans more than 80 countries, supported by a network of over 200 certified sales and service partners. The Black&White4 range is a central part of the product offering. The company presents the Black&White4 as a machine for daily demand of up to 500 cups, the Black&White4 compact for up to 150 cups, and the Black&White4 Competizione as a model associated with the World Latte Art Championships. Thermoplan says it has also developed machines for lower daily demand, opening up additional customer segments. Its ThermoplanConnect platform provides remote monitoring and analysis, along with remote delivery of recipes, software updates, and customized user interfaces. Thermoplan has expanded its coffee-related activities beyond machine manufacturing. The company says it opened its own roastery and Coffee Academy in 2025, with coffee developed and roasted in Weggis and knowledge shared with customers, partners, and coffee enthusiasts. The brand remains positioned around professional coffee equipment, Swiss manufacturing, service support, and coffee expertise.

Thermoplan describes its origins as a small family business and says that, over more than 50 years, it developed into an internationally successful company in fully automatic coffee machines. The company identifies itself as a family business rooted in Switzerland and headquartered in Weggis, in the Canton of Lucerne. Its account of its history and operations emphasizes professional equipment, Swiss production, and a strong connection between manufacturing and its home region. A key part of the company’s approach is its commitment to Swiss manufacturing. Thermoplan says its fully automatic coffee machines are made in Weggis and that around 80 percent of their components come from Swiss production. It presents this production model as part of its “Made in Switzerland” identity, alongside precision, craftsmanship, and attention to ease of operation and maintenance. The company also says it combines technology with handwork across sourcing and manufacturing. Thermoplan’s international business is supported by a network of more than 200 certified sales and service partners, and the company says it supplies customers in over 80 countries. Its product development serves professional users in food service and other commercial sectors. The Black&White4 series illustrates the range: the company describes the Black&White4 as suited to daily demand of up to 500 cups and the compact model as suited to up to 150 cups. It also presents the Black&White4 Competizione in connection with the World Latte Art Championships. In 2021, Thermoplan says it began offering professional fully automatic coffee machines for customers requiring 20 to 100 cups per day, extending its reach to lower-volume segments. In 2017, the company developed ThermoplanConnect, which it later expanded into a broader digital platform. The company describes the platform as enabling customers to monitor and analyze their coffee businesses and to send recipes, software updates, and customized user interfaces remotely to individual machines. This digital offering complements Thermoplan’s equipment and service network. In 2022, Domenic Steiner handed the chairmanship of the board to Andri Pol, a long-serving board member and the son of Esther Steiner. Domenic Steiner remained on the board. In 2024, Thermoplan marked 50 years in business, describing itself as one of the successful developers and producers of fully automatic coffee machines. In 2025, the company opened its own roastery and Coffee Academy in Weggis, broadening its activity into coffee development, roasting, and education for customers, partners, and coffee enthusiasts. The company history page also records a ten-year naming-rights engagement under which the FC Luzern home ground is to carry the name thermoplan arena beginning July 1, 2026.

• 2026

  thermoplan arena naming rights begin

• 2025

  Thermoplan opens a roastery and Coffee Academy

• 2024

  Thermoplan marks 50 years

• 2022

  Andri Pol becomes chair of the board

• 2021

  Thermoplan extends its offer to lower-volume customers

• 2017

  ThermoplanConnect is developed

• 1974

  Thermoplan begins as a family business

Swiss-made professional fully automatic coffee equipment, supported by an international sales and service network and digital machine-management capabilities.

• Black&White4

  A professional fully automatic coffee machine presented for daily demand of up to 500 cups.

• Black&White4 compact

  A compact professional machine presented for daily demand of up to 150 cups.

• Black&White4 Competizione

  A machine highlighted in connection with the World Latte Art Championships.

• ThermoplanConnect

  A telemetry and digital platform for monitoring and analyzing coffee operations and remotely managing recipes, software updates, and customized user interfaces on machines.

• 2019-10-08

  qiio and Thermoplan announce IoT coffee-machine partnership[4]qiio 与 Thermoplan 宣布咖啡机物联网合作finanznachrichten.de

  Reported: 2019-10-08

  qiio announced a partnership with Thermoplan to provide IoT connectivity hardware and a cloud platform for remotely monitoring Thermoplan coffee machines.

1. 1Thermoplan AG : Kaffeevollautomaten in Schweizer Qualitätthermoplan.ch
2. 2Thermoplan AG: In der Schweiz verankert, weltweit tätigthermoplan.ch
3. 3Thermoplan AG: In der Schweiz verankert, weltweit tätigthermoplan.ch
4. 4qiio 与 Thermoplan 宣布咖啡机物联网合作finanznachrichten.de