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JBT Corporation-FoodTech Division

70 West Madison Street, Suite 4400 Chicago, IL 60602 United States

JBT supplies customized industrial and turnkey solutions used in the food processing industry. Through innovation, we design, manufacture and service food processing equipment for the preparation of meat, seafood and poultry products, ready-to-eat meals, shelf stable packaged foods, bakery products, high-value powdered products, juice and dairy products, and fresh fruit and vegetable products.

Material Handling

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JBT Corp. offers a full line of AGV equipment, management software, trusted services, and customer support to help customers in food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, paper and tissue, and packaging industries cut costs, run at peak efficiency, and punctually deliver process inputs. JBT’s wide variety of forked, towing, unit load and specialty AGVs handle tasks from raw material delivery and movement of work-in-process (WIP) to transporting of waste materials and removal of finished goods. AGV models designed for roll handling, pallet handling and end-of-line tasks are also available.

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Types of Material Handling

  • Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs)

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Robotic

Food & Dry Ingredient Handling

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JBT offers C.A.T. brand weighing systems for processing applications, ranging from bench scales and pick-up scales to indexing scales. In addition, JBT supplies processing conveyors and milling equipment for ingredient handling. Featured products include C.A.T. indexing scale, which handles 250 lb. load cells and features a stainless steel weigh hopper with stainless steel buffer hopper. C.A.T.’s bi-directional frame scale weighs and accumulates product and dumps to one side until target weight is reached and then dumps to opposite side to target weight while operator is moving full combo.

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Types of Food & Dry Ingredient Handling

  • Bulk Handling/Bulk Weighing Equipment
  • Processing Conveyors/Conveyance

Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

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JBT Corp. supplies food processing equipment for applications across a wide spectrum of the industry, from bread and pasta and baby food, to dairy, poultry, meat, ready meals and snack applications through its family of 24 brands, which in addition to JBT, includes Avure, C.A.T., Frigoscandia and Stein. Food processing equipment includes HPP systems, choppers, blenders, scrubbers, cutters, sorting systems, cutters, emulsifiers, food coating equipment, processing conveyors, freezer chillers and other refrigeration systems, fryers ovens and steamers, slicing machines, tenderizers, poultry processing and much more.

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Types of Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

  • Chillers, Freezers & Cooling Equipment
  • Coating, Enrobing, Seasoning & Decorating Machines
  • Grading & Sorting Equipment
  • High Pressure Processing (HPP)
  • Injectors & Vacuum Stuffers
  • Mixing & Blending Equipment
  • Ovens, Dryers & Fryers
  • Raw Material Preparation Equipment
  • Retort & Sterilization
  • Slicing, Dicing, Cutting & Shredding Equipment

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • Manual
  • Pilot/lab
  • Semi-automatic
  • Skid-mounted

Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

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JBT offers a wide variety of equipment used in liquid processing applications of all varieties. Machines include pasteurizers, Sterideal® Ohmic Heat Exchangers, evaporators, concentrators, storage tanks, pressure vessels, centrifugal hot oil filters, vacuum pumps and related equipment.

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Types of Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

  • Evaporators & Distillation Equipment
  • Filtration Equipment
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Pumps, Valves, Fittings & Piping
  • Tanks, Vessels, Kettles & Silos

Features:

  • Semi-automatic
  • Wet

Liquid Fillers

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JBT offers a wide range of traditional aseptic and rotary fillers for low or high viscosity, liquid or solid products including peas, milk, juices, tuna, jams, as well as baby food. The high-speed AF200 Classic aseptic filler is designed to fill fluids, concentrates and particulate products, providing “steam only” sterilization of the filler head(s), complete sanitation by an automatic clean-in-place system and without chemicals or sterile gasses used. The Unifiller is a volumetric filler that differentiates itself from conventional piston fillers by the complete absence of seals and the unique self-draining fill station concept.These unique features drive key benefits of the system: fill accuracy, CIP-ability without any disassembly, and product flexibility.

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Types of Liquid Fillers

  • Net Weight Fillers (Liquid)
  • Piston Fillers
  • Vacuum Fillers

Features:

  • Aseptic
  • Inline
  • Monoblock
  • Rotary
  • Semi-automatic
  • Volumetric

Package Types:

  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub

Dry Fillers

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JBT supplies versatile and hygienic units designed to fill a variety of powdered goods. Applications range from baby formula, coffee and chocolate powder to spices, cosmetics, nutraceuticals and everyday household cleaners. Powder and granular product fillers accommodate many styles of rigid and semi-rigid packaging, from steel and composite cans to jars and bottles. Powder filling machines use the most appropriate filling method – vacuum, volume, time, or an optimal mix of these. JBT also assists customers with related needs to a dry filling line such as scoop placing, in-line gassing, seaming, inspecting and barcode labeling.

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Types of Dry Fillers

  • Net Weight Fillers (Dry)

Features:

  • Powder
  • Powder (free-flowing and granules)
  • Powder (not free-flowing)
  • Solid pieces (free-flowing)
  • Solid pieces (not free-flowing)

Package Types:

  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Rigid Can or Canister Package Type Icon
    Can or Canister
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub

Pre-made Tray/Cup/Bowl Packaging Equipment

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JBT Proseal designs and manufactures an extensive and varied range of tray sealing machinery with throughputs from 6 to 240 packs per minute. This high-speed capacity is complimented by a number of benefits including; user-friendly intuitive design, eco-friendly electric seal actuation, and ultimate flexibility. The machinery flexibility includes features such as 2-minute tool changeover and optional technology for all types of tray sealing formats including: gas flush (MAP), vacuum gas, and skin packaging, all of which is able to be added or removed at any time, regardless of the machine’s age. Tray sealer models cover a wide range of applications from baby food and bakery to personal care, soups, and pet food.

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Types of Pre-made Tray/Cup/Bowl Packaging Equipment

  • Product Loading into Trays, Cups & Bowls
  • Tray, Cup & Bowl Sealing

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Semi-automatic

Package Types:

  • Rigid Tray Package Type Icon
    Tray

Packaging Inspection Equipment

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JBT’s line of JBT XVision™ X-ray inspection machines handle a wide variety of applications in food packaging operations. Using JBT’s proprietary Critical Control Point X-ray (CCPX™) technology, JBT XVision™ systems are simple to maintain and easy to operate. Models include the XVision CCPX-Pack Curtainless X-ray Inspection System, for contaminant detection of foil stick packs and the XVision FlexScan, a flexible modular technology platform designed for contaminant detection in wet or dry production environments.

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Types of Packaging Inspection Equipment

  • X-Ray Systems

Features:

  • Dry process
  • Semi-automatic
  • Wet process

Package Types:

  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Flexible Stick Pack Package Type Icon
    Stick Pack

Process Inspection Equipment

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JBT offers processing inspection equipment including the XVision CCPX-Clean 2208 ground meat X-ray inspection system, designed for simplified contaminant detection of bulk flow ground meat and poultry directly off the grind head. JBT XVision systems are designed to be easy to maintain and operate and the plug-and-play source, processor and control modules reduce cost of ownership and provide users with more uptime.

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Types of Process Inspection Equipment

  • Process Analyzers

Package Forming Equipment

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The BottleTec blow molder from JBT produces lightweight HDPE bottles in almost any possible shape. The molds are easily changed to accommodate different container designs, accommodating open, non-sterile and closed, internally sterile versions. Compact blow molder can produce bottles ranging in sizes from 0.2 liters to 1.5 liters (7 oz. to 50 oz.) at rates of up to 7,500 bottles/hour at full speed.

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Types of Package Forming Equipment

  • Blow Molding & Trimming Machines

Features:

  • Plastic

Package Types:

  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar

Additional Offerings

We are a leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food and beverage industry with focus on proteins, liquid foods and automated guided vehicle systems. We design, produce, and service sophisticated products and systems for multi-national and regional customers through our FoodTech segment. We also sell critical equipment and services to domestic and international air transportation customers through our AeroTech segment.