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July 18, 2024 – Key Technology (Key) and PPM Technologies (PPM), both members of Duravant’s Food Sorting and Handling Solutions group, announce they have combined their sales and service organizations in North and South America as well as Australia and New Zealand. In these areas, Key and PPM are offering a single point of access to sales and aftermarket services for their combined portfolio of conveyors, sorters, fryers, seasoning equipment and other food processing solutions, including integrated turnkey systems.
“Bringing these two leading equipment suppliers together provides outstanding value to food processors. Customers can now access the broadest portfolio of material handling and sorting solutions in the food processing industry via a single point-of-contact,” said Jack Lee, Duravant Group President - Food Sorting and Handling Solutions. “By integrating the Key and PPM sales and service teams, we can offer industry-leading process expertise and technical knowledge to our customers, including the ability to supply larger and more capable integrated solutions. Consolidating our field service and aftermarket operations means customers receive faster, more comprehensive support to maximize uptime and improve line performance.”
Both experts in food conveying and process solutions, Key and PPM design, engineer and manufacture systems for fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, potato products, snacks and cereals, nuts and dried fruit, confections, meats, poultry, seafood and other bulk food products. Their vibratory, horizontal-motion and belt conveyors perform tasks such as feeding, aligning, grading, dewatering, scalping and distributing throughout food processing lines. Additionally, Key offers optical sorting systems that maximize product quality and increase process yield while reducing labor requirements. PPM also supplies frying, coating/seasoning and cooling systems for a variety of processed food applications.
About Key Technology, Inc.
Key Technology is a global leader in the design and manufacture of automation systems including optical sorters, conveyors and other processing equipment. Applying processing knowledge and application expertise, Key helps customers in the food processing and other industries improve quality, increase yield and reduce cost. Key manufactures its products in Walla Walla, Washington, USA; Redmond, Oregon, USA; and in Beusichem, the Netherlands. Key offers customer demonstration and testing services at five locations including Walla Walla and Beusichem as well as Hasselt, Belgium; Sacramento, California, USA; and Melbourne, Australia; and maintains a sales and service office in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico. Key is a Duravant Company. For more information, visit www.key.net.
About PPM Technologies
PPM Technologies is a global automation solutions provider of smartly engineered equipment and integrated lines for the food processing industry. PPM designs, engineers and manufactures equipment for a wide array of food products, including snack foods, cereals, confectionaries, nuts and seeds, vegetables, meats, poultry, seafood and more. Their portfolio includes conveying, coating, grading, frying and cooling equipment that can be customized to integrate with virtually any production line. PPM has developed an impressive global installed base of over 10,000 machines and services customers in over 50 countries. For more information, visit www.ppmtech.com.
About Duravant
Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL, Duravant is a global engineered equipment company with manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Through their portfolio of operating companies, Duravant delivers trusted end-to-end process solutions for customers and partners through engineering and integration expertise, project management and operational excellence. With worldwide sales distribution and service networks, they provide immediate and lifetime aftermarket support to all the markets they serve in the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors. Duravant’s market-leading brands are synonymous with innovation, durability and reliability. For more information, visit www.duravant.com.
Buffy Hagerman
Key Technology
150 Avery Street
Walla Walla, WA 99362 USA
Tel: +1 509 540 7415
bhagerman@key.net
www.key.net
Nicholas Schoen
PPM Technologies
500 E. Illinois Street
Newberg, OR 97132 USA
Tel: +1 503 476 7504
nisch@ppmtech.com
www.ppmtech.com
Cat McBride
McBride Public Relations
527 27th Street
Richmond, CA 94804 USA
Tel: +1 650 384 5727
connect@mcbridepr.com
www.mcbridepr.com