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JBT Marel
JBT Corporation acquired Marel in January 2025 for $3.5B; combined entity claims 50%+ of global IQF tunnel freezer installations for protein, vegetable, and seafood processing.
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IQF Freezing Equipment (JBT Frigoscandia + GEA Competitor)
30%Protein Processing (Marel — Salmon, Poultry, Pork)
40%Aseptic Processing & Pharmaceutical Applications
15%Airport Catering & Ground Support
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Did you know2023
JBT Corporation makes the equipment that freezes the frozen food in grocery stores (Frigoscandia IQF freezers), the equipment that serves the food to airline passengers (JBT catering trucks loading meal trays onto aircraft), and the equipment that deices those aircraft (JBT deicers). The same company that is in every major food processing plant's freezer room is also on the tarmac at every major airport. JBT's Airport Services business (Jetway boarding bridges, catering trucks, deicers, ground power units) and its FoodTech business (IQF freezers, aseptic fillers, citrus processing) are entirely separate markets using the same engineering and industrial manufacturing competencies — but serving different ends of the supply chain that connects frozen peas in a freezer factory to a meal served at 35,000 feet.
JBT Corporation ↗Capacity2023
Marel's ACM (Automated Cutting Machine) for fish processing uses computer vision and AI to identify and precisely cut around individual pin bones in salmon fillets — a task that previously required skilled manual workers at 2,000-3,000 fillets per day per worker. Marel's AI-guided fish fillet processing systems are now installed in Norwegian, Chilean, and Scottish salmon plants processing millions of fish per year. The same machine learning and image recognition techniques that guide autonomous vehicles have been applied to salmon filleting — enabling Norwegian fish processing factories to automate a dexterous, food-safety-critical task. Marel has been piloting these systems alongside human workers for 20 years, making it one of the longest-running real-world AI/robotics deployments in any industry. A fish weighing company founded in Reykjavik 1983 is now one of the world's most advanced robotic food automation companies.
Marel (JBT Marel) ↗Origin2023
JBT Corporation (John Bean Technologies) was founded in 1884 as the original John Bean Spray Pump Company — manufacturing agricultural spraying equipment for fruit orchards in California. The company expanded into food canning and citrus processing, then into airline catering equipment, and eventually became a diversified food and aviation technology company. JBT was spun off from FMC Corporation in 2008. Marel was founded in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1983 as a fish weighing and portioning equipment company — initially serving Iceland's dominant fishing industry. Over 40 years, Marel expanded from fish processing to poultry, pork, and global protein processing domination. JBT's $3.5B acquisition of Marel in January 2025 combined the world's largest food IQF freezer manufacturer with the world's largest automated protein processing equipment maker.
JBT Marel (John Bean Technologies) ↗