Mahdi Relaunches the Xenia Espresso Machine: A New Era of Smart Home Coffee Gear

 Mahdi certainly wouldn’t miss a market opportunity like this. In the past, they had already released several mid-priced grinders designed for home users, but those products alone couldn’t fully create a complete at-home coffee-making setup. So earlier this year, they made a strategic move: Mahdi’s parent company, Hemro Group, acquired Berlin-based Xenia Espresso. The purpose of this acquisition was to relaunch Xenia’s flagship espresso machine under the Mahdi brand.


Xenia Espresso was originally founded in 2012 by members of a German online coffee enthusiast community. In many ways, it was a product born from collective wisdom—a machine designed entirely from the perspective of hobbyists, hitting all the right notes of what home enthusiasts expect in a coffee machine. The original Xenia already featured a dual-boiler system, a quiet pump, pressure sensors, and PID temperature control for its advanced heating system.

Beyond these foundational components, the newly redesigned machine—now under Mahdi—had to stand apart from the past. And that difference comes from integrating Mahdi’s innovative engineering. The new Xenia espresso machine features a dual-boiler system and four separate heaters: one in the coffee boiler, one in the steam boiler, and two embedded directly in the brew group. The goal is to maintain highly stable brewing temperatures and enable rapid switching between extraction and steaming.

Inside the Xenia, additional sensors and control mechanisms allow users to create extraction profiles based on pressure, flow rate, temperature, and output weight data collected from the built-in scale. This dramatically enhances data visibility and increases the machine’s appeal to coffee geeks, aligning perfectly with the core demands of today’s home-brewing enthusiasts. According to Mahdi, the machine’s powerful steam system also delivers 50% more pressure than typical home espresso units. On top of that, the machine includes Mahdi’s built-in Sync system—a technology that allows it to pair seamlessly with Mahdi’s E64 WS grinder. Using extraction time and weight recorded by the Xenia, the E64 WS can automatically adjust its grind setting coarser or finer based on the programmed target outcome.

This part alone is already exciting—and the auto-adjust grind feature immediately reminds me of Mahdi’s commercial-grade EK Omnia grinder, which previously impressed me. Its biggest advantage is the ability to automatically micro-adjust burr spacing and dose calculations as soon as you select a recipe, enabling precise alignment with the chosen parameters. Without relying on personal guesswork, the grinder uses micron-level burr positioning to achieve ultra-fine tuning. While the E64 WS may not match the EK Omnia’s commercial-grade precision, it carries the same core technological philosophy into the home-use category, which is incredibly promising.

At this point, Mahdi’s forward-thinking market strategy becomes crystal clear. They aren’t blindly chasing the home-espresso trend just to join the competition—they’re building an entirely new product ecosystem. Grinder precision, machine stability, and intelligent extraction control are being seamlessly fused together, offering home users an unprecedented level of professional-grade performance. As of the time I’m writing this, Mahdi has not yet announced the machine’s final retail price. They have only stated that sales are expected to begin next year. When that happens, we’ll definitely keep an eye on further updates. It’s absolutely something to look forward to.

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