News on Extrusion from Europe

Swiss technology group Bühler has acquired Esau & Hueber, a German company known for its expertise in hygienic process and fermentation technology across the beverage, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology sectors.

In 2023, Bühler successfully navigated a complex and volatile global landscape and increased its profitability.

As of January 1st, 2024, the assets and business activities of Lalesse Extrusion are integrated into Kuipers Food Processing Machinery.

Swiss technology group Bühler unveils its new food innovation hub in Uzwil, Switzerland, bringing together a diverse range of capabilities into a single location and setting a new stage for product and process development.

In 2020, Bühler proved to be a reliable partner to all its stakeholders and showed robust business performance in 2020. Despite adverse conditions, Bühler fulfilled all customer contracts and delivery agreements without interruptions.

Schenck Process Group (SPG) has reached an agreement to acquire Baker Perkins, a leading global supplier of food processing equipment and aftermarket services for the bakery, confectionery, biscuit, cookie and cracker, breakfast cereal, and pet food end-markets.

Due to the positive response and over-subscription of virtual meetings, Bühler has decided to keep the Bühler Virtual World open at least until the end of May. Over the three days, more than 12,000 people from 132 countries visited the digital platform, around 500 private meetings are ongoing.

In just six weeks, Bühler transformed its physical interpack program into a fully digital experience. It has certainly been a very steep learning curve for the company, but one that will give Bühler’s partners and customers access to new services.

With the concluded acquisition of the Italian Pavan Group end of November 2017 the Düsseldorf engineering group GEA purchased a leading supplier of extrusion and milling technology for processing all kinds of fresh and dried pasta, pelleted snack products and breakfast cereals.

Processing Equipment manufacturer Bühler celebrated the ground breaking for its Innovation Campus in Uzwil, Switzerland. Completion of the building is expected for the first quarter of 2019.

The savoury snacks industry assembled en masse to do business on 12-13 June 2013 as exhibitors, delegates and visitors from over 70 countries around the world met in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the 15th edition of SNACKEX.

Baker Perkins will showcase its technology and services that enable snack manufacturers to take advantage of new market opportunities, at Snackex 2013

Clextral, leading supplier of production lines and equipment for the food industry integrating twin screw extrusion and drying technologies, achieved a 45,3 million euro turnover in 2009 with its subsidiaries of which 80% is in export sales.

One year after joining Legris Industries Group, Clextral announces the acquisition of Danish company K.A.L. ProcesTeknik A/S (Gadstrup,Copenhagen region), specialized in refurbishing extruder screws.

Clextral, manufacturer of twin-screw extrusion and supplier of drying solutions, continues to break records of sales in 2007 and 2008 already shows very promising figures.Clextral decided to change its organization which has been under the leadership o...