JBT acquires Avure Technologies

JBT Corporation has acquired Avure Technologies for $57 million, before post close adjustments. Avure develops food processing technology and has gone on to create a range of HPP systems for worldwide tolling centers and food manufacturers. With the addition of Avure Technologies to the family, JBT is expanding its clean label solutions for fresh foods and beverages with a longer shelf life, according to JBT.

Avure’s High Pressure Processing (HPP) uses ultra-high pressure purified water to keep packaged food pathogen-free. At very high pressures bacteria such as Listeria, E. coli, and Salmonella are inactivated. Foods using HPP include ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook meats, ready-meals, fruits and vegetables, juices and smoothies, soups and sauces, wet salads and dips, dairy products, seafood and shellfish. HPP helps producers increase food safety and extend shelf-life while providing consumers with nutritious, natural, flavorful food, according to the company.

JBT and Avure will be able to offer customers a single, global source for their protein and liquid foods processing needs by coupling Avure’s design, fabrication, and food science resources for high-pressure processing systems in the food and beverage markets with JBT’s existing portfolio of protein and liquid foods technologies, according to the companies.