JBT Corporation Announces Award Of Juice Beverage Processing Project

Chicago, IL /PRNewswire - JBT Corporation /quotes/zigman/519085/quotes/nls/jbt JBT -2.94% announced today that its JBT FoodTech business signed a contract with a global food and beverage company in excess of EUR 5 million (approximately U.S. $6.7M).

JBT FoodTech will provide a completely new fruit-based beverage blending line to be installed in Asia. This new beverage line will be used for the production of orange juice-based drinks.

"We are very pleased with the continued confidence expressed by the fruit-based beverage industry in JBT's leading fruit processing and sterilization technologies," said Steve Smith, Vice President and General Manager for JBT FoodTech's Food Processing Systems Division.

The order was received in the second quarter of 2012 with the project currently scheduled to be operational in the second quarter of 2013.

JBT Corporation /quotes/zigman/519085/quotes/nls/jbt JBT -2.94% is a leading global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries. JBT Corporation designs, manufactures, tests and services technologically sophisticated systems and products for regional and multi-national industrial food processing customers