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Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryManufacture of machinery for food processing; ISIC C2825
Founded1959; 66 years ago (1959) in Oostzaan, Netherlands
FounderPiet Meijn
Headquarters
Oostzaan
,
Netherlands
Number of locations
14 offices
Area served
Worldwide
Owner
Number of employees
>1000
ParentBerkshire Hathaway
Websitewww.meyn.com
The office of Meyn in Georgia, USA
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The office of Meyn in Lębork, Poland
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Piet Meyn Senior (left) transporting crates with eggs (1959)
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The Apollo eviscerator, developed by Meyn and launched onto the market in 1972

About

Meyn Food Processing Technology (better known as Meyn) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of poultry processing equipment, offering full "wall-to-wall" solutions to numerous renowned poultry processing companies in over hundred countries worldwide. The equipment range comprises of the areas live bird handling, slaughtering, evisceration, cut up, deboning and plant management. On June 5, 2012, Meyn Food Processing Technology officially opened its new international headquarter and manufacturing facility in Oostzaan. Today, Meyn has four production sites in Oostzaan (Netherlands|The Netherlands), Poland , Italy, and the United States, with a global network of 1,000 employees and 14 sales offices.[1]

Meyn is active in more than one hundred countries in Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with some customers processing more than one billion chickens per year. The company serves more than 2,000 customers and holds 35% of the world market.[2]

History

The poultry processing industry is deeply rooted in the ‘Oostzaan’ region of the Netherlands, where Meyn was founded in 1959. Piet Meyn Senior started his business as a supplier of poultry processing equipment in the small town of Oostzaan, the Netherlands. The first machine developed by the company was designed to break eggs, but soon it was followed by a machine to process poultry, more specifically, chicken. This processing machine formed the basis of the company’s current success.[3]

Following various earlier changes of ownership, Meyn was taken over in 2005 by the Altor Funds. Altor divests world leading food equipment producer Meyn to CTB, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. [4] Since Altor has acquired Meyn in the beginning of 2005, their revenues increased from EUR98 mln. in 2004 to EUR205 mln. in 2011, which represents an annual growth of 11 percent on average, while strengthening EBITDA from EUR12 mln. to EUR32 mln., an average annual growth of 15 percent. In that same period, the share of new projects being sold in the rapid growing emerging markets had risen from approximately 30 percent up to 60 percent, and the total workforce doubled from 500 to 1000 employees. In 2012, Altor 2003 Fund (”Altor”) had reached an agreement on the sale of Meyn Holding B.V., which at that time was the parent company to Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. ("Meyn"), the global market leader in poultry processing solutions, to CTB, Inc. ("CTB"), a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, a key player in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of agricultural systems and solutions. Consequently, on July 31, 2012, CTB finalized its acquisition of Meyn Holding B.V., the parent company of Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. The acquisition agreement was announced on May 4, 2012. [5][6]

Products

Meyn has been at the forefront of product innovation and development all through its history, and has introduced a large number of revolutionary innovations in the poultry meat processing industry. Over the years, Meyn has introduced a large number of revolutionary innovations, including the first automatic eviscerator, Apollo, in the early seventies, automatic rehangers in 1980, the renowned Meyn Maestro in 1993, the Rapid breast deboner and recently poultry processing solutions running at 15,000 bph. With its mission, ‘Meyn feeds the world,’ the company continues to promote the products it has developed since its early days: innovative machinery for the poultry processing industry.

The total portfolio encompasses more than fifty pieces of equipment. Meyn presents solutions that allow the customer to manage either individual pieces of equipment, specific quality aspects, whole departments, or even the entire process, literally ranging from wall to wall. For reasons of flexibility, Meyn’s equipment can be operated standalone, or it can be integrated – now or later – into larger systems or into completely integrated factory management systems.[7]

The company offers poultry processing solutions for live bird handling, such as crate, drawer, multistage CO2 stunning system, and container systems; slaughtering equipment, including stunners, killers, electrical stimulators, jet stream scalders, pluckers, head pullers, and hock and feet cutters; and evisceration products, such as vent cutters, opening machines, fat retention machines, maestro eviscerators, cropping machines, neck breakers, final inspection machines, and inside/outside bird washers. It also provides chilling systems, including immersion, spray, air, and giblet chilling systems; weighing and measurement systems, transfer and conveyors, and turkey processing systems; and cut up, deboning.[8][9]

The company also offers Real-time Process Monitoring system to monitor and analyze processes; Meyn Connect, a performance software that enables previously scattered information to be monitored in real time and combined into integrated reports. It integrates the data collected from the processing line, into a single user-friendly application. Additionally, the company offers planning and IT, transfer and conveyor equipment and by-product handling.

Notes

  1. ^ The National Provisioner. (2012, 15 June). Meyn opens new headquarters in Oostzaan with gift for Dutch Food Bank. Retrieved from https://www.provisioneronline.com/articles/98068-meyn-opens-new-headquarters-in-oostzaan-with-gift-for-dutch-food-bank
  2. ^ Brouwer, J.J., Zwan, van der G., 2018. Sustainability First. Global challenges, Dutch solutions. C2i Business Stories, Den Haag, 146-151.
  3. ^ Wikisage. Piet Meijn. Retrieved from http://nl.wikisage.org/wiki/Piet_Meijn
  4. ^ Altor. (2004, 12 May). Retrieved from https://altor.com/altor-divests-world-leading-food-equipment-producer-meyn-to-ctb-inc-a-subsidiary-of-berkshire-hathaway-inc/
  5. ^ Thomson Reuters. (2012, 4 May). Buffett buys Dutch poultry-processing device maker. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/buffett-meyn/buffett-buys-dutch-poultry-processing-device-maker-idUSL5E8G4F3920120504
  6. ^ CTB, Inc. (2012, 4 May). CTB to Acquire Meyn Holding B.V. Retrieved from http://www.ctbinc.com/news.php?news_id=44
  7. ^ Brouwer, J.J., Zwan, van der G., 2018. Sustainability First. Global challenges, Dutch solutions. C2i Business Stories, Den Haag, 146-151.
  8. ^ Bloomberg. (2019, 20 March). Company Overview of Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=829920
  9. ^ Zootecnica International. (2017, 23 January). Interview with Robbert Birkhoff of Meyn. Retrieved from https://zootecnicainternational.com/focus-on/interview-robbert-birkhoff-meyn/

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