nyse jbt founded 1884 as the bean spray pump company 1928 as food machinery corporation 2001 as fmc technologies inc 2008 as jbt corporation headquarters three first national plaza chicago illinois united states key people tom giacomini president ceo and chairman products food processing equipment jetways revenue 984.2 million usd 2014 net income 30.8 million usd 2014 number of employees 3 500 2014 website 1 jbt corporation is an american food processing machinery and airport equipment company . jbt corporation was incorporated in 2008 when fmc technologies divested its non energy businesses . jbt corporation is based in chicago illinois . its airport equipment division manufactures and services the jetway brand of airport passenger loading bridges and other ground support equipment such as cargo loaders deicers and pushback tractors . contents 1 history 1.1 the bean spray pump company 1.2 fmc 1.3 spinoffs 2 acquisitions 3 organization 4 references 5 external links history edit the bean spray pump company edit founded in 1884 as the bean spray pump company in los gatos california 1 by john bean . the company s first product was a piston pump . bean invented the pump to spray insecticide on the many fruit orchards in the area . a bean sprayer is on display at the forbes mill museum there . 2 bean avenue in downtown los gatos is named after john bean . fmc edit in 1928 bean spray pump purchased anderson barngrover co. and sprague sells and changed its name to food machinery corporation and began using the initials fmc . fmc received a contract to design and build landing vehicles tracked for the united states war department in 1941 . fmc also built the m113 apc armored personnel carrier and the bradley fighting vehicle as well as the xr311 at its former facility in santa clara california . the troubled development of the bradley was satirized in the 1998 hbo movie the pentagon wars . in the movie fmc was fictionalized as a.o.c corporation . bean also manufactured fire fighting equipment in the 1960s through the 1980s under the fmc and the bean names . fmc also produced fire truck fire pumps and pumper bodies and had an oem arrangement with lti ladder towers inc. to market aerial ladders . in the early 1980s the fire apparatus division of fmc tried to expand its role in aerial ladders on fire trucks leveraging the link belt crane division . fmc was ultimately unsuccessful in its expansion into production of aerial ladders . the fmc fire apparatus division was also ultimately shut down in 1990 . 3 spinoffs edit in 1946 fmc bought out bolens lawn and garden equipment . fmc changed names again in 1948 becoming food machinery and chemical corporation . in 1961 the name was changed to fmc corporation . in 1967 the fmc corporation merged with the link belt company . the company produced fmc link belt branded cranes and excavators . in 1986 the link belt construction equipment company was formed as a joint venture between fmc corporation and sumitomo heavy industries . between 1965 and 1985 fmc was the owner of the gunderson metal works in oregon usa during that period it was known as the marine and rail equipment division of fmc mred it was sold in 1985 to the greenbrier companies . 4 in the 1980s 1990s and 2000s decade fmc corporation began spinning several of its divisions into separate companies including united defense and fmc technologies and selling its divisions including the john bean company now a subsidiary of snap on equipment a division of snap on . bolens was sold to troy built in 1991 . on april 30 2008 fmc technologies announced the spinoff of its airport and food equipment businesses into a separate company named john bean technologies corporation headquartered in chicago illinois . jbt is named after the spray pump inventor whose business was the foundation of fmc corp. acquisitions edit on august 3 2015 jbt completed the acquisition of stork food & dairy systems a dutch company specializing in processing and filling equipment primarily for the dairy and juice industry that was previously part of stork b.v. 5 on september 2 2015 jbt announced the acquisition of a & b process systems a privately held fabrication and installation company located in wisconsin . 6 organization edit industrial robot with jbt corporation logo jbt corporation is organized in two business segments jbt foodtech and jbt aerotech . jbt foodtech provides solutions and services for food processing companies . markets served include freezer solutions for the freezing and chilling of meat seafood poultry ready to eat meals fruits vegetables and bakery products protein processing solutions that portion coat and cook poultry meat seafood vegetable and bakery products in container processing solutions for fruits vegetables soups sauces dairy and pet food products as well as ready to eat meals in a wide variety of modern packages fruit processing solutions that extract concentrate and aseptically process citrus tomato and other fruits jbt aerotech markets solutions and services to airport authorities airlines airfreight and ground handling companies . product offerings include ground support equipment for cargo loading aircraft deicing and aircraft towing gate equipment for passenger boarding and on ground aircraft power and cooling airport services for maintenance of airport equipment systems and facilities jbt aerotech also supplies the united states military with equipment for cargo loading aircraft towing and aircraft cooling . in addition jbt corporation has an automated guided vehicle business that supplies solutions for material handling in the automotive printing food & beverage manufacturing warehouse and hospital industries . references edit chicago portal companies portal los gatos city ordinance honoring the history of the almond grove neighborhood forbes mill museum see photo of bean sprayer aerial fire trucks by larry shapiro page 61 . e.m. lundquist ; bruce harmon ; kathy hinson february 2000 . gunderson a history of an oregon company pdf . www.gbrx.com . gunderson the greenbrier companies . jbt corporation completes acquisition of liquid foods solutions provider . yahoo finance . retrieved 29 october 2015 . jbt corporation signs definitive agreement to acquire leading liquid foods solutions provider . yahoo finance . retrieved 29 october 2015 . external links edit official website agv and automated systems division retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jbt corporation & oldid 743336730 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies established in 2008companies based in chicago navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links 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