Sandvik Process Systems Becomes IPCO

Previously operating as Sandvik Process Systems, IPCO is now an independent company within the Wallenberg group with 600 employees, more than 35 sales and service offices and annual sales in excess of EUR200m. In joining the Wallenberg group, IPCO has gained the stability of being part of a business with approx. 600 000 employees and more than EUR140bn in total annual sales of holdings.

The company’s network of regional offices will enable it to continue to provide local, on-the-ground expertise backed up by a service organization with the ability to support OEMs and end users in any location around the world.

Fabio Conti is global product manager for the food industry at IPCO: “We are the world’s largest – and oldest – manufacturer of solid and perforated steel bake oven belts, supplying oven builders and end users around the world. Our position of independence, within a group that has a 160 year history of supporting enterprise and research, strengthens our ability to meet the future needs of our bakery customers.”

IPCO manufacturers bake oven belts in a range of high performance steel grades and belt sizes – from 800 mm to extra wide 3500 mm conveyors – to meet the production requirements of baked goods ranging from crackers, pies and pan pizza to brownies, granola bars and American-style real butter cookies.