food processing equipment . founded 1918 headquarters worldwide headquarters paston parkway peterborough cambridgeshire england north american headquarters kraft ave se grand rapids michigan usa area served worldwide products bread mixing and forming equipment for plant bakeries complete lines for biscuits cookies and crackers cooking and depositing lines for confectionery traditional and extruded breakfast cereal systems extruded and co extruded snack lines extruders for powder coating manufacture extruders for continuous production of pharmaceutical powders number of employees 350 website http www.bakerperkins.com baker perkins ltd is a british engineering company based in peterborough offering manufacturing and process services to the food industry throughout the world . contents 1 history 2 later mergers 3 trade associations 4 references 5 external links history edit the company has its origins with jacob perkins 1766 1849 an american inventor who moved to england in 1819 from massachusetts . his son angier march perkins 1799 1881 founded the firm of a. m. perkins & co ltd to manufacture his inventions . 1 in 1893 the company merged with werner & pfleiderer london to form werner pfleiderer & perkins ltd. in 1904 wp & p moved their manufacturing from london to westwood peterborough . in 1914 owing to pressure over its german sounding name the company became perkins engineers ltd. during world war i the company produced a range of armaments including ricardo engines for mark iv tanks . 2 in 1918 it merged with joseph baker & sons ltd of willesden to become joseph baker sons & perkins ltd and in 1923 baker perkins ltd. by the time of the merger baker and perkins were well established names in the bakery biscuit confectionery chocolate and chemical machinery industries . just as the companies combined the bakers bought a factory in saginaw michigan that for over 60 years was the base for manufacture of food and chemical equipment in north america . between the wars the company manufactured a wide range of machinery including laundry equipment . in 1939 baker perkins was asked to take on production of the new twin 6 pounder coast defence gun and also made components for a wide range of other artillery pieces . 3 post war baker perkins specialised in equipment for the food processing and printing industries . later mergers edit the business had expanded to become global in its organisation and sales when in 1987 the dairy and liquid food specialist apv acquired it . during this time the company relocated from old premises near the centre of peterborough to a new purpose built facility on the outskirts . in 2006 baker perkins regained its historical name and its independence when it was acquired by private investors . most recently baker perkins has introduced new moulding and forming technology for bread ; developed equipment allowing confectioners to develop candies and lollipops ; and pioneered technology expanding the variety of snacks and breakfast cereals . 4 baker perkins currently operates in two office locations the headquarters being in paston peterborough with a second office in grand rapids michigan . 5 trade associations edit baker perkins maintains close links to the industries it serves through membership of key trade associations and research organisations . these include aacc international pmca 6 bema and b & cma in the us and the leatherhead food international 7 and campden bri in the uk . references edit http www.hevac heritage.org victorian engineers perkins perkins.htm http www.westwoodworks.net howitwas westwoodworksinww1 index.htm http www.westwoodworks.net howitwas westwoodworksinww2 index.htm 7 www.bakerperkins.com about us the baker perkins story detailed history of baker perkins http www.bakerperkins.com contact http www.pmca.com membershiplisting.asp http www.leatherheadfood.com member services member external links edit official website baker perkins historical society westwood works 1903 2003 this article about an english company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title baker perkins & oldid 739011056 categories engineering companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in peterboroughfood industryenglish company stubshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediaall stub articles 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 hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 08 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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