Headquartered in Graz, Austria, ANDRITZ is an international technology group and a leading global supplier of plant, equipment and services for a broad range of industries.
With over 280 production sites and service/sales companies and 27,232 employees worldwide ANDRITZ offers more than 180 years of industry experience.
For the petfood industry, ANDRITZ offers a full range of processing machines and equipment – from raw material intake to finished feed bagging – as single unit or complete plant solution. The individual process machines offered are selected from the standardized and proven range of ANDRITZ product families.
ANDRITZ is the perfect partner for design, engineering, supply, and construction of your pet food process line, and offers upgrades for existing facilities as well as solutions for greenfield plants, which are handled either in cooperation with regional suppliers and contractors, or as turnkey solutions.
The company’s experienced project managers, process engineers, and experts from specialized functions ensure that the performance will come up to your expectations.

The company focuses on providing optimum pet food quality at lowest possible operating costs and with specific attention to:
• Precise feed composition
• Highly consistent pet food pellet quality regarding size, shape, surface, colour, and density
• Highly consistent pet food pellet absorption and retainability of liquid fat and digest ingredients
• Consistent and uniform pellet dryness
• Processing with careful attention to protection of essential nutrients
• Optimization of energy consumption

Established in 1981, Cama Group is a rapidly growing and leading supplier of advanced technology end-of-line packaging machines and robots.
Continuously investing in innovative solutions, the Cama Group offers completely integrated packaging lines, from primary packages up to final packaging ready for palletizing, serving industries including food (bakery, confectionery, coffee, ice cream, dairy, ready meals, grocery & pet food) and non-food (personal, health & home care).
The Group has six subsidiaries around the world (U.S, China, Australia, France, UK and Northern Europe) and invests more than 5% of its annual turnover into R&D, including the development of class leading Industry 4.0 solutions, which include process virtualisation, engineering and machine commissioning.
Cama is in the perfect position to help pet food companies – both large and small – to realise greater efficiencies through the automation of packaging operations.
Supporting the industry for over 15 year, Cama has helped many companies across the globe absorb the impact of changing market dynamics, including the natural progression of packaging – starting with cans, onto trays, into pouches and back to cans again. It has also addressed the multi-flavour issue thanks to tightly integrated and highly flexible automation infrastructures and in-house-develop robotic pick-and-place systems. Indeed, this industry is not unlike the coffee industry, in which Cama a market leader, with its huge variety of packaging concepts!
The pet food industry is always laying down packaging challenges that centre around the need for flexibility coupled to efficiency. Cama has a unique portfolio of technologies that covers the breadth of packaging concepts and packaging formats. Thanks to this spread, it can offer best-fit solutions, rather than a compromise based on a limited offering. In fact, in many cases, Cama can suggest two or three packaging concepts and then work with the customer to define the strategy and technology that fits their needs precisely.
Cama contact details :
Cama Group, Via Como 9 23846, Garbagnate Monastero, LC Italy
www.camagroup.com
Global Account Manager Pet food, Wim Kruikemeijer Wim.Kruikemeijer@camagroup.com
Corporate video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZ68-KPp5I

CEPI designs, manufactures and commissions bulk-handling systems for the storage, transport and dosing of raw materials, as well as fully integrated automation and technologies to complete all production processes. A family-run company with an international outlook, CEPI is based in Italy and operates globally, with offices in Malaysia to coordinate operations in the Asian market and a network of local partners spanning the five continents. Since 1985, we have worked with the most important companies from all sectors of food manufacturing.
CEPI’s mission goes beyond assembling food machinery: we build turn-key installations that manage the production line from storage to dosing, all the while developing specialized solutions to match diverse and ever-changing needs across the planet. From technological diversification to personalized innovation, from bulk-handling equipment to data, we aim to provide systems that can be managed in total independence once commissioning is done.
CEPI can design customized solutions for any ingredient requiring special treatment as well as installations for all types of pet food. From kibble to dry food, canned food, moist, semi-moist, lyophilized food, premix, and others. Hygienic and safe macro and micro storing and automated metering of lyophilized products, cereals, meat and vegetable flour, vitamins, mineral salts, proteins, fibres, and others. Our motto is: if your process needs it, we can do it. If we cannot do it yet, we will develop it, just for you.
We believe in build lasting relationships for lasting projects, through an ongoing conversation about all its aspects: from process and product analysis with hygiene and safety management and food technology support, to engineering and control, manufacture, commissioning, and service. All these stages are managed internally with continuity through all operations.
We take a long-term view when we design our systems, to create the most flexible solution for each food manufacturer. Out systems are turn-key and easily adaptable to any future change or expansion, making them extremely durable and fit for the circular economy. CEPI’s process is optimized, sustainable and preserves the integrity of your beloved pet’s food.

Established in 1987, Clevertech Group is headquartered at Cadelbosco di Sopra, in the Reggio Emilia province in Italy and is supported globally by other operations in North America, China, France, UK, and South Asia.
This year, the company is inaugurating a new plant in Italy, which will take the total plant size up to 13,800 m2, and will provide a new logistic and quality control area.
Clevertech’s experience makes it an ideal partner for the design of integrated solutions for front and end of line; with a range of solutions that covers the food & beverage, home care, wine & spirits, pet-food and personal-care markets, where it meets the requirements of all major manufacturers of consumer goods. The systems developed by Clevertech Group can manage a broad range of packaging concepts, including PET bottles, pouches, full, bulk cans, ends, cases, and secondary packaging.
Clevertech’s focus on customer results is supported by its mechanical, electrical and software modularity, coupled to high application customization, including fully integrated upstream and downstream solutions, e-commerce solutions, single-layer palletizers, small-footprint technology and half & quarter pallets.
Based on Industry 4.0 concepts, all machines can be provided with digital documentation, a spare parts app, customized videos, diagnostics by area & by device and preventive maintenance routines.
The holistic approach makes Clevertech a single supplier that produces a fully end of line solutions fully integrated in terms of interface, electric design, safety design, software pack ML design, programming and TPM design. The holistic approach comprises integrated solutions for front and end of line (EOL), and includes palletizers, product conveyors, labelling machines, stretch wrapping machines, strapping systems, pallet conveyors and data-tracing system.

JBT Marel is a business unit of John Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT), a leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food and beverage processing and air transportation industries.

With more than 50 years of experience, JBT-FTNON is a well-known brand. With a global coverage (both sales and customer care) it can serve customers in all kinds of ways, with local presence and local build.

JBT FTNON equipment and process solutions are based on:
• In depth knowledge of the processing solutions for wet petfood production
• A strong in-house project and engineering team developing turnkey solutions.
• High-end manufacturing and assembly of production lines and stand-alone machines for food processing
• Proven R&D with high end process technologies.

Pet Food Technology
Over 50 years JBT FTNON has built up vast experience in the field of wet pet food technology. With a wide range of installations, its systems have been used very satisfactorily by many leading pet food manufacturers worldwide. Thanks to its advanced pet food technology its customers have improved efficiency and optimized the quality of their products.

FTNON offers the most economical and effective way of processing, through steam technology. In combination with meat preparation, mixers, emulsifiers, breakers, hoppers, extruders, and colour injection, FTNON is the high-end partner in the industry. FTNON can operate as a turnkey solution provider.

sustainability experts share information and ideas with yours to reduce impacts.

Much of our success can be attributed to an exceptional infrastructure employing industry experts and outstanding processes and procedures.

• Technical Support: JRS technical service personnel find solutions to customers´ complex scientific problems, clarify customer opportunity areas as they emerge, and respond rapidly when technical issues arise.
• Product Development: JRS excels because of its fully outfitted commercial pet food lab that allows “real world” product testing.
• Quality Assurance: JRS supports its products with advanced quality assurance that runs from sales and customer service through manufacturing to transportation and delivery.
• Laboratory Services: In addition to assuring that products are made to precise specifications, in-house laboratories at all manufacturing locations provide research capabilities to assist with customer product development efforts.
• Customer Service: JRS most important mission is to provide complete customer satisfaction. We know that we will be judged as a company not just by its products and services, but also by its organizational performance and responsiveness to customer needs.

For more than 70 years, KARL SCHNELL has been synonymous worldwide for innovative products from Germany.

The basis of all our work is a cooperation in partnership. This ensures that customer requirements can be combined optimally with KARL SCHNELL's technical and technological expertise. All machines and plants are subject to constant adaptation to new specific challenges of a hygienic, product-, process- and quality-related nature.

The product portfolio is almost completely developed, designed and built in-house. It ranges from machines for raw material intake, through mincing and fine emulsifying solutions, to filling systems. In addition, we use our knowledge and the technology transfer from the other areas of food processing for the diverse applications in the petfood sector.

Complex systems are created from individual machines - depending on the task at hand - that can process and manufacture a wide variety of products.

Due to the high level of vertical integration, KARL SCHNELL ensures production, independent of the market.

KARL SCHNELL employs around 300 men and women in the two plants in Germany and the subsidiaries in France, the USA, Russia and Romania. They are distinguished by their above-average qualifications and their commitment.

As an ISO 9001 certified company, increasing the efficiency and longevity of our machines and systems is our top priority. With modern products and our innovative process solutions, we support our customers in working more resource-efficiently and achieving their own sustainability goals.

KS benefits from its international positioning: the countries in which our company is represented already cover a large part of the global economic output.

So far, our specialists have installed thousands of integrated systems for a clientele that includes both small companies and global corporations and is active in a wide range of industries, including the fast-growing pet food industry.

We focus our innovative strength on "Quality is our passion!". We see considerable economic opportunities in holistic, intelligent solutions. Because they require not less, but more technology.

MIAVIT GmbH is a family-owned company, founded in 1964, and now already operating in the 3rd generation. The name MIAVIT is an abbreviation for all important minerals, amino acids and vitamins that are contained in our pre-mixtures. As a competent partner in the field of technological and nutritional feed additives, MIAVIT offers a high-quality and diverse range of products - in powdered form, in pastes, liquids and tablets as well as extensive service and support.

The MIAVIT pet food solutions cover
• Premixes
Customized and easy to handle premixes of vitamins, minerals or functional ingredients for dry and wet pet food to create nutritional balanced complete feed.
• Category 3 blends
Blends, containing dry animal by-products derived from category 3 material, being produced on a dedicated mixing line, which is completely separated from other production lines, providing our customers more freedom and flexibility with regards to storage and dosing capacity at their production facilities.
• Gelling & thickening agents
Highly functional tailor-made blends of gelling agents and thickeners based on carrageenan, locust bean gum or cassia and even complete compounds, including very effective palatability enhancers for all different kinds of wet pet food like chunks in gravy/jelly, pâté or all meat products.
• Antioxidants
Very effective liquid and powder formulations, containing natural and/or synthetic antioxidants like tocopherol and rosemary extracts, BHA, BHT, propyl gallate as well as chelators to protect feed materials and final feed from oxidative changes.
• Private label supplements
Tailor-made complementary feed and special supplements in different application forms like powder, tablets, liquids or pastes.
• Preservatives
Customized solutions for long-lasting microbiological product stability, especially for prone semi-moist products, treats and snacks.
• Raw materials
Our customers can benefit from our diverse portfolio of feed additives and functional ingredients, giving the opportunity to take advantage of our one-stop-service.

Founded in 1964, PFM is an international industrial group that is a benchmark in the design and manufacture of flexible packaging for the food and non-food industries: food (fresh and dry products, confectionery, bakery products, dairy products, pasta, meat, frozen foods), chemical-pharmaceutical, cosmetics, beverages, pet food, detergents and wet wipes, always ensuring high standards of quality, safety and reliability. This wide versatility allows the Group to offer customised packaging solutions, suitable for every type of product and production process. P.F.M. S.P.A. is the parent company of the PFM Group and represents its operational and strategic hub. Based in Torrebelvicino (Vicenza), it coordinates the activities of the 14 specialised companies that make up the Group, located in Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Canada, the United States and Thailand, providing administrative, technical and commercial support and ensuring consistency and synergy in industrial and commercial processes at a global level. The headquarters is also the technological and production heart of the company, where advanced packaging solutions are designed, built and marketed, including flowpack and form fill & seal packaging machines, as well as a wide range of automatic packaging and feeding systems.
The product portfolio includes around 40 different models of packaging machines, as well as numerous customisable accessories, designed to meet specific customer requirements in terms of format, product, performance and automation.
The PFM Group's leadership is the result of substantial investment in research and development, continuous and constructive dialogue with end users in its areas of expertise, and its ability to internationalise and conquer new markets.
With an extensive sales network covering 70 countries worldwide, a dedicated team of Area Managers PFM coordinates an active sales network that guarantees customers fast, efficient and personalized service, mainly in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and the Far East. Over the years, the Group has built an integrated and technologically advanced industrial ecosystem capable of responding to the needs of increasingly diverse and competitive markets. The companies in the group design and manufacture packaging machines, complete lines, multi-head weighers, high-precision dosing systems and tailor-made solutions in-house, ensuring high quality standards, innovation and reliability.

Founded 1893, REICH is Germany’s oldest name in the field of thermal processing systems for food and is one of the leading providers worldwide. Our drying, cooking, smoking, baking, cooling and maturing systems have been known for decades for their consistently high processing quality, the best production results and easy handling. It makes no difference whether you would like to process meat, fish, poultry, cheese, veggie products or pet food – REICH’s engineers always find the ideal solution for your requirements.

Tradition alone does not make a good systems manufacturer. Rather, it is the foundation on which we base our future corporate development. It is our declared goal to generate added value for our customers and their products and processes through expertise and innovation.

We are a reliable, innovative and dynamic partner for the food industry.

The prerequisite for this is to know the exact requirements for our customer’s products and processes. Only with this profound knowledge, intelligent solutions can be developed that actually offer added value every day. We succeed in this through the close cooperation between our engineers and process technologists, who have the exciting task of combining the two worlds of “engineering” and “food processing”.

At the same time, we remain open and sensitive to new technologies and are ready to systematically promote our dynamic development of the recent years through further investments.

REICH employs around 130 men and women in our headquarters and production facility in Germany and in the subsidiaries in Spain and Russia. We are cooperating globally with sales and service partners and export around 80% of our products to customers on all continents.

Since its founding in 1908, Waldner has taken giant steps – from the Allgäu region of Germany – out into the world.

From a metalworking company into many diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, research, education, medicine, food, animal nutrition, analytics, automotive, industry and biotech.

The successful transformation into a global technology company is driven by people with strong innovative skills. 1,300 people in our headquarters in Wangen alone.

256 patents and over 110 years of experience is in our DNA. We are currently implementing solutions for more than 10 industries, developing and producing on an area of 65,000 m² and generating sales of over €260 million per year.