JBT Corporation
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| Traded as | : JBT S&P 600 Component |
| 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 |
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Key people
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Tom W. Giacomini, President, CEO and Chairman |
| Products | Food processing equipment Jetways |
| Revenue |
 $1,350 Million USD (2016) |
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$67.6 Million USD (2016) |
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Number of employees
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approx 5,000 (2016) |
| Website | [1] |
John Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT) is a leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food processing and air transportation industries. JBT designs, manufactures, tests and services technologically sophisticated systems and products for customers around the world.
Founded in 1884 as the Bean Spray Pump Company in Los Gatos, California 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. Bean Avenue in downtown Los Gatos is named after John Bean.
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.
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