Hillenbrand has entered into an agreement to acquire Schenck Process Food and Performance Materials (FPM) business. FPM specializes in the design, manufacturing, and service of - among other technologies - feeding, filtration, baking, depositing, milling, and material handling equipment, and systems for the food, plastics, chemicals, and construction material industries. At closing, FPM will become a part of Coperion’s Food, Health & Nutrition Division, joining previous acquisitions Linxis Group, Peerless, and Gabler. In addition, its Performance Materials business brings additional products and an expansion of existing product lines to Coperion’s polymer portfolio, as well as applications know-how in the construction materials and chemicals space.

Coperion’s Food, Health & Nutrition Division is composed of a number of industry brands – including Bakon, Coperion K-Tron, Diosna, Gabler Engineering, Peerless, Shaffer, Shick Esteve, Unifiller, and VMI – with customers in more than 100 countries. Key brands of FPM such as Baker Perkins, Kemutec, and Raymond Bartlett Snow (RBS) will join the Coperion brands in providing technologies and solutions across a variety of end markets.

The FPM business is complementary to the equipment and solutions currently offered by Coperion. Coperion will benefit from scale in attractive food categories, including pet food and alternative proteins, as well as plastics and chemicals, and will be able to offer more value to global customers through FPM’s highly engineered processing solutions and proprietary technology portfolio.
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