Our story: 20+ years of precision depositing

Where it started

Technician looking at a depositing head while assembling it, with colleagues at work in the background

For more than 20 years, FoodJet has helped food producers place liquid and semi-liquid products exactly where they need them, with less waste. Here is how we got here, and what keeps driving us.

FoodJet’s roots lie with the De Grood family, their engineering company De Grood Metaaltechniek and a long-held drive to engineer better solutions. Around the turn of the century, that drive turned to food technology: a way to jet liquid and semi-liquid foods in a precise, controllable way. In 2006, De Grood Innovations B.V. was founded to bring that technology to food producers at scale, making production smarter and less wasteful, with less repetitive manual work and far less product lost to inconsistent application. In 2011, the company took the name FoodJet.

Milestone by milestone

Front of the FoodJet building at Bijsterhuizen 2428

Our story is best told through the production lines we have helped build:

2006: proof of principle of the food depositing idea, and De Grood Innovations B.V. is founded.
2008: we present our first demonstrator machine to the public at interpack.
2009: our first customer puts the technology to work, depositing chocolate compound as cake toppings.
2011: we register the FoodJet brand and change our company name to FoodJet.
2014: we deliver our first vision-guided pinch valve depositor for pizza sauce, built for wide, high-speed lines.
2020: we introduce the PC-based FoodJet Control Platform with volumetric control.
2025: the 250th FoodJet system is delivered.
2026: we open our second building, the FoodJet Test and Commissioning Center in Wijchen.
2027: we expect to deliver our 100th MDLV pizza sauce depositor.

What drives us

What began with chocolate compound on cakes now reaches across pizza sauce, butter and oil, cheese and cream, sauces, jam and more. But the reason we build machines has not changed:

People first: we take the repetitive, draining manual work off the line.
No mess by design: clean deposition prevents waste and contamination further down the line.
Stop waste: accurate dosing means less give-away and fewer rejects.

Today, we design and build our machines in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with a team of around 50 people and a worldwide network of partners, close to the producers we work with.

Every FoodJet system is configured and quoted to fit your line and your requirements.

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