The Mecalac machines, all of them, are superb in design in my opinion. So far I have yet to be remotely impressed with any American representatives of these gems sadly. Perhaps the European management is more personable and sensible, but it seems they're afraid of the US and seem to want to keep 'Merican middlemen between us yokels and the European management team. Especially in the US Northeast, everybody I tried to deal with either acted like a mobbed up goodfella or was totally powerless and had to refer everything to the aforementioned. But then I'm a nobody, and apparently my friends that wanted to be Mecalac dealers must have been nobodys as well, because they also got ignored. I believe there is one dealer up West of Seattle, but in the four years we've been waiting they should have made some serious inroads here. Not happening.
By the way, for the mechanics and so inclined out there, I have never seen machines so well designed for ease of service and access to components, actually boggled my little brain a bit. YMMV.