First, the word is used two ways
Sense 1: a blender plus a soda maker — two appliances, one making purée, the other adding gas. Sense 2: one machine that carbonates the drink itself. If you searched this term because you want sense 2, you are in the right place. If you want sense 1, you want a kitchen appliance we do not make.
We build sense 2. On seven of our model lines the machine will carbonate juice, tea, syrup and fruit directly in the bottle — the same body that dispenses still water when you do not press the button.
Why a water-only machine is hard to sell in some markets
Sparkling water is a habit in some countries and a curiosity in others. Outside the 2012–2018 boom the category has never been large on its own, and the words people use for it — sparkling machine, soda maker — are searched in modest volumes by mixed audiences.
Carbonating the drink changes that arithmetic. In markets where fruit juice, tea and sweetened drinks are everyday purchases, "make it sparkling" is an upgrade to something the customer already buys, not a new appliance category they have to be taught. That is a much shorter conversation.
What our mix line actually carbonates
Seven models — SHANG, SONG, SING, SHANG-2, EDGE, WALL-SERIES and SMARTZZI — carbonate far more than water:
- Juices and nectars, fruit, vegetable and herbal infusions
- Liquor and cocktails
- Carbonation powder or liquid mixes — the syrup route
- Tea, coffee, cream and oil
- Flat soda and beer, re-carbonated
The classic G2 is a water machine and G3 is its refresh — we say so rather than promise more. Foaming, pulp and cleaning limits are set out in the manual for each model; if you tell us the drink, we will tell you which model handles it and how it has to be cleaned.
The line grew one problem at a time
It is worth knowing why there are seven, because the differences are answers to real objections — which is usually what a buyer is actually evaluating.
| Model | The problem it answers |
|---|---|
| SHANG | The first one: smallest footprint, and the original one-way air patent |
| SONG | The best seller — because of a more durable button and a steadier base |
| SING | The bottle was too tall for the fridge. Click & Hang, and smaller bottles |
| SHANG-2 | Same footprint as SHANG, but a conventional, firm press-down button |
| EDGE | SONG in stainless steel — for the buyer who wants it to look like an appliance |
| WALL-SERIES | There is no counter left. It mounts on the wall |
| SMARTZZI | Take the hand out of it: a microcontroller sets the CO₂ volume and the release time |
What every generation shares: a 17 bar pressure-rated bottle, the 1 L bottle (800 ml fill line), up to +30% dissolution efficiency, and two-phase release — slow then fast, so nothing sprays when you open it.
What to specify before you ask for a price
- The drink. Sugar, pulp, fat and alcohol all change the carbonation behaviour.
- The bottle. Which of 350 / 500 / 700 / 800 ml · 1 L your market expects, and whether it must fit a fridge.
- The counter. How much footprint you have — this is what decides SHANG versus WALL-SERIES.
- Manual or electronic. SMARTZZI if your market will pay for one-button consistency.
- Cleaning. What the user has to do between drinks, and how the model makes that easy.
Where the category sits
We describe our machines as counter-top water dispensers — the appliance that stands on the worktop and gives you chilled still water every day — with sparkling as the plus-one feature on top. A soda blender is the same idea pushed further: the machine is the standard appliance, and what it can carbonate is the reason to choose yours over the machine next to it on the shelf.
- Read next: the mix-and-carbonate line, grouped by the problem each model solves.
- Read next: why we call it a counter-top water dispenser — the category argument behind this page.
- Read next: private label — if you want your own name on it.