Besca Roasters
Production drums, Izmir, Turkey.
History
First listed as Chinese, Besca is Turkish: Izmir, Çiğli industrial zone, a small team that builds by hand according to Daily Coffee News, which ran a headline in January 2019 on the opening of a US base in Michigan. No founding year appears on the official site.
Izmir is, outside Northern Europe, the world hub of this trade: Toper since 1953, Özturk since 1944, Has Garanti, Besca. A gray area remains: machines sold under the Besca name appear in the Chinese storefront of the Kaweher group, the export entity of Kaleido, without it being known whether this is a license, a distribution or a misuse of the name. This is probably the origin of the confusion about nationality.
What it makes
Gas and electric drums, from sample to industrial, with afterburner, destoner and loader.
The models
- Bee and BSC-01: sample
- BSC-03 to BSC-15 Gen II: shop
- BSC-06e and BSC-15e: electric
- BSC-30 to BSC-240: industrial
Capacities per model not recorded
What you gain
Manufacture of conventional drums in the densest industrial basin of the sector, at a Turkish price.
What you lose
The heating principle is not specified in the sources consulted, and the presence of the name in a Chinese storefront blurs the identity of what one is buying.