Case Study: Pact Coffee scales coffee packing and shipping with balena

How Pact Coffee Uses Raspberry Pis to Ship Upto 4k Coffee Packs a Day

Pact Coffee is a recurring subscription coffee company that ships fresh coffee by post and was struggling to keep pace with rapid growth on its factory floor. Before working with balena, the team used Android phones and QR codes for scanning and shipping tasks, then moved to Raspberry Pis—but still faced inefficiencies, downtime, and difficult manual updates across devices.

With balena, Pact Coffee streamlined provisioning and fleet management for its Raspberry Pi-based packing desks, replacing manual SSH updates with simple git push deployments. balena helped reduce downtime, let the team spin up a new packing desk in about 15 minutes, and enabled Pact Coffee to replicate its production line three times over, supporting output of up to 4,000 coffee packs per day.

Pact Coffee

Tony To

Chief Technology Officer