Food Machinery Corporation

Summary

Business	Manufacturer
Main Location	San Jose
Active	1929-
Predecessors	John Bean Manufacturing Company, Anderson-Barngrover, Sprague-Sells, Stebler-Parker.

Food Machinery Corporation was a San Jose-based company that manufactured multiple kinds of machinery for food processing and canning. The company was formed in spring of 1929 by the merger of the Stebler-Parker Company with John Bean Manufacturing Company, Anderson- Barngrover Manufacturing Company, and the Sprague-Sells Corporation. Stebler-Parker had primarily handled citrus processing equipment. John Bean, started in Los Gatos and had gotten its start making sprayers and graders. Anderson-Barngrover, based in San Jose, made canning equipment. Sprague-Sells was a Chicago-based canning equipment manufacturer.

The company still exists.