Somerset Industries

Name

Somerset Industries

Legal name

Somerset Industries, Inc.

Website

https://smrset.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Foodservice Equipment

NAICS

Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Preparation Equipment & Smallwares Wholesale (AFAIALAK)

Keywords

• Commercial bakery equipment
• Dough processing machinery
• Foodservice equipment manufacturing
• Pizza dough rollers
• Commercial dough sheeters

Headquarters

HQ city

Lowell

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Bakery Equipment Sales: Somerset Industries generates revenue through the manufacture and sale of professional-grade dough processing equipment including dough rollers, sheeters, presses, moulders, cheese shredders, and specialty equipment. Equipment is sold directly to foodservice professionals with pricing provided upon request. The company also generates revenue from parts, accessories, and service support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Somerset Industries designs and manufactures professional-grade dough processing equipment for the foodservice industry, including dough rollers, dough and fondant sheeters, dough rounders, dough presses (pizza and tortilla), dough moulders, cheese shredders, and specialty equipment such as pastry turnover and meat shredding machines. Products are built with heavy-gauge stainless steel construction and maintenance-free gear motors, and are sold primarily to pizzerias, restaurants, bakeries, schools, hospitals, and ethnic food production facilities. The company supports customers with direct sales, custom machine building, and a parts-and-service distribution partnership with Parts Town.

Product overview

Somerset Industries is a manufacturer of professional-grade bakery and foodservice equipment founded in 1946. The product portfolio consists of multiple equipment categories: Dough Rollers (CDR series: CDR-2000, CDR-1500, CDR-1550, CDR-2500, CDR-2100, CDR-1100, CDR-2020), Dough Sheeters (CDR series including CDR-500, CDR-500F, CDR-600F, CDR-100, CDR-700, CDR-300, CDR-300F, CDR-115), Dough Rounders (SDR-400), Dough Presses (SEP-760, SEP-790), Dough Moulders (CDR-170, CDR-250), Cheese Shredders (SCS-150), and Specialty Equipment (SPM-45 Turnover Machine, SMS-60 Meat Shredder). All products feature heavy-duty stainless steel construction, maintenance-free gear motors, and are designed for commercial foodservice environments including pizzerias, bakeries, restaurants, schools, and ethnic food production facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dough Rollers (CDR Series) Compact tabletop dough rollers and sheeters for pizza crusts and bakery dough, available in front-operated and side-operated configurations with synthetic or metallic rollers. Built for pizzerias, restaurants, schools, cafes, bakeries, institutions, and ethnic food production facilities to increase output and reduce labor.
• Dough and Fondant Sheeters (CDR Series) Tabletop dough and fondant sheeters designed for high-volume pizzerias, donut shops, bakeries, and pastry operations. They produce uniform sheets for pizza crusts, calzones, pita, pastries, tortillas, puff pastry, pie crusts, and ethnic flatbreads with consistent thickness and easy cleaning.
• SDR-400 Dough Rounder Compact heavy-duty dough baller and rounder for pizzerias, bakeries, restaurants, schools, Mexican restaurants, ethnic food production facilities, and government facilities. Enables fast, consistent dough ball production with manual or automatic feed operation.
• Dough Presses (SEP Series) Automated tabletop electric presses for pizza crusts and ethnic flatbreads (chapati, Navajo bread, focaccia, pita, paratha, roti, lavash). All-stainless-steel construction, simple thickness adjustment, and energy-efficient operation.
• Dough Moulders (CDR Series) Tabletop and larger bread moulders for commercial bakeries producing baguettes, dinner rolls, breads, hot dog buns, pretzels, bolillos, Cuban bread, sub rolls, breadsticks, and specialty breads. Designed to increase output, reduce labor, and improve consistency.
• SCS-150 Cheese Shredder

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce labor costs through automation of labor-intensive dough processing tasks
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Parts TowncoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorParts Town is an authorized distributor of Somerset Industries parts and service support. They provide replacement parts and service information for Somerset equipment, enabling customers to quickly access genuine replacement parts for their Somerset dough processing equipment.

Scale indicators4 records

Broad incumbents

• Middleby Corporation: Middleby is a large diversified commercial kitchen equipment manufacturer (including the Adamatic bakery brand) that bundles multiple equipment categories in national-account bids to the same foodservice customers Somerset serves.
• Blodgett (Middleby brand): Blodgett is a long-standing commercial cooking and baking equipment maker (now under Middleby) whose ovens and bakery equipment are routinely specified alongside Somerset dough preparation equipment in commercial bakery build-outs.
• Vollrath Foodservice: Vollrath produces broad-line commercial kitchenware, smallwares, and foodservice equipment, including cookware and prep tools sold into the same institutional and restaurant channels as Somerset.
• Hobart (ITW Food Equipment): Hobart, part of Illinois Tool Works, is a broad-line foodservice equipment manufacturer offering mixers, slicers, warewashing, and cooking equipment that competes with Somerset in commercial kitchens and institutional foodservice accounts.

Direct peers

• Globe Food Equipment: Globe manufactures commercial food slicers, mixers, and countertop cooking equipment used in the same pizzerias, restaurants, and institutions that buy Somerset dough rollers, cheese shredders, and presses.
• Bakers Pride: Bakers Pride manufactures commercial countertop and deck ovens plus bakery and pizza equipment aimed at pizzerias, bakeries, and restaurants — the same core vertical as Somerset's dough preparation portfolio.
• AM Manufacturing: AM Manufacturing designs and builds commercial dough rollers, sheeters, and pizza presses used by pizzerias and bakeries, directly overlapping Somerset's core rollers/sheeters/presses product line in the same foodservice channels.
• Doyon Equipment: Doyon manufactures commercial baking equipment including dough sheeters, dividers, rounders, and proofers — a near-direct overlap with Somerset's dough processing portfolio targeting the same bakeries, pizzerias, and institutions.

Regional players

• WP Haton: WP Haton is a Dutch manufacturer of industrial bread, dough, and pizza production lines serving European bakeries and pizza chains, comparable in functionality to Somerset's lines but operating primarily outside North America.
• Kaak Group: Kaak Group is a European-based supplier of integrated bakery and pizza production systems (forming, proofing, baking) for industrial bakeries, functionally adjacent to Somerset's dough forming/rounding/pressing equipment but serving primarily EMEA.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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