Bühler AG (Bühler Group)
HQ CH35% share
Privately held Swiss process-engineering giant; dominant supplier of grain (wheat/rice) milling systems and Sortex optical sorters. Processes a large share of the world's grain and cocoa.
manufactured · input
Rice Milling and Processing Equipment
Industrial paddy huskers, whiteners, color sorters, and parboiling systems; Bühler AG (Switzerland) and Satake Corporation (Japan) dominant global suppliers of rice milling systems
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Source countries
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Companies
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Goods affected
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What depends on it
Goods that need this input
1 essential American goods rely on rice milling and processing equipment somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Where it comes from
Source countries
Share of global supply, by country.
| Country | Share of supply |
|---|---|
| DEGermany (Federal Republic of Germany) | 15% |
| ITItaly | 14% |
| GBUnited Kingdom | 10% |
| CACanada | 10% |
| CNChina | 7% |
| CHSwitzerland | 6% |
| MXMexico | 5% |
| DKDenmark, except Greenland | 4% |
| NLNetherlands | 4% |
| ATAustria | 4% |
| BRBrazil | 3% |
| THThailand | 3% |
Who makes it
Supplier companies
4 companies produce rice milling and processing equipment.
Satake Corporation
HQ JP30% share
Japanese rice-machinery pioneer; invented the first power rice-whitening machine (1896) and the first optical color sorter; global leader in rice milling and sorting.
TOMRA Systems ASA(TOM.OL)
HQ NO12% share
Norwegian sensor-based sorting leader; food sorting (incl. rice), recycling/reverse-vending, and mining ore sorting.
AGCO Corporation(AGCO)
HQ US
Major agricultural OEM — Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra brands. Acquired Fendt (Germany) in 1997. Imports ~35% of North American sales from Europe, giving it the highest tariff exposure of the Big Three OEMs (~$110M in 2026). Formed PTx Trimble JV (April 2024, AGCO 85%) for precision ag GNSS/guidance hardware.