Winyard Engineering

What Winyard Engineering does

Winyard Engineering Ltd is a UK-based, family-owned manufacturer of bespoke food processing machinery, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire. The company designs and builds custom liquid and dry-goods depositors (Mini-Fill, Midi-Fill, Magnum-Fill, Auger-Fed Volumetric), vegetable processing equipment (VL spiralizers, Hasselback potato cutter, carrot/parsnip/cucumber/cabbage preparation lines), and supporting line infrastructure (flat belt and modular conveyors, indexing conveyors, elevators, denesters, rotary pot fillers and lidding machines, liquid transfer pumps, and nozzles). Manufacturing is conducted in-house with CNC and manual turning and milling, welding and fabrication, and 3D-printed prototyping.

The business operates on a direct B2B, quote-based sales model targeting enterprise food manufacturers in the ready meals, sauces, soups, prepared vegetables and bakery segments. Customers include Bakkavör, JDM, Freshtime, Indulgence, and Pork Farms/Spalding Bakery, with several relationships exceeding 30 years. Revenue derives primarily from one-time bespoke equipment sales, supplemented by short-term machinery rentals, aftercare and refurbishment services, and used equipment sales. Technical differentiators include sub-1% deposit variance, throughput up to 240 fills per minute via multi-outlet depositors, market-leading vegetable spiralizer throughput, and 14-day rush delivery for urgent customer requirements.

Winyard reports over 1,000 successful installations worldwide and employs approximately 20 staff with more than 300 years of combined engineering experience. The company is privately held by the Winyard family, with Gordon Winyard as Managing Director, Matthew Winyard active in operations, and the late Susan Winyard having served as former Financial Director. There is no external investment, no M&A activity, and no AI/ML capability disclosed. Recent product launches — including the Mini-Fill MKIV (2018), VL spiralizer upgrades (2019), modular conveyors (2018), 3D prototyping (2017), and the Hasselback Potato Cutter (2025) — demonstrate continued reinvestment in the core product portfolio rather than geographic or channel expansion.

Name

Winyard Engineering

Legal name

Winyard Engineering Ltd

Website

https://winyardengineering.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Winyard Engineering is a UK-based, family-owned manufacturer founded in 1972 that designs, builds and services bespoke food processing machinery — including liquid depositors, vegetable spiralizers, conveyors and filling equipment — for enterprise food manufacturers in the UK and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Food Processing Machinery

NAICS

Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241), Packaging Machinery Manufacturing (333993)

SIC

Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550), Special Industry Machinery, Nec (3559)

akta.pro primary industry

Filling & Dosing Machines (Liquid/Powder/Solid) (IMAHAOAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Filling & Dosing Equipment (Liquid, Powder, Aseptic) (IMALAOAB), Packaging & Bagging Equipment (Weighers, Baggers, Sealers) (AFAAAJAI)

Keywords

• Food processing machinery
• Bespoke manufacturing equipment
• Liquid depositing machines
• Vegetable processing equipment
• Stainless steel conveyors

Headquarters

HQ city

Spalding

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Bespoke Food Processing Machinery Sales: Design, manufacture, and installation of custom food processing equipment including depositors, spiralizers, conveyors, and vegetable preparation machinery. Revenue generated through one-time equipment sales with full project management from design through installation.
2. Machinery Rental: Short-term rental of food depositors, transfer pumps, and spiralizers from existing stock. Available at short notice for customers needing temporary capacity.
3. Aftercare & Support Services: Full aftercare service including spare parts, breakdown repair, refurbishment, and scheduled maintenance. Consumables and change parts available from stock.
4. Used Equipment Sales: Sale of quality used machinery direct from manufacturer, fully customizable with available parts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Winyard Engineering designs, manufactures, and installs bespoke food processing machinery for food manufacturers, ready meal producers, vegetable processors, and bakeries. Core product lines include liquid and dry goods depositors, vegetable spiralizers and cutting machines, conveyors, transfer pumps, rotary pot fillers, denesters, and elevators — all built in-house in Lincolnshire, UK from stainless steel with full project management from design through installation, plus aftercare, spare parts, and refurbishment services.

Product overview

Winyard Engineering Ltd is a UK-based manufacturer of bespoke food processing machinery with over 45 years of experience. Their product portfolio centers on liquid and dry goods depositing equipment (including the Mini-Fill, Midi-Fill, and Auger-Fed Volumetric Filling ranges), vegetable processing machines (VL Vegetable Spiralizers, Hasselback Potato Cutters, and root vegetable preparation equipment), and supporting infrastructure including conveyors, elevators, and denesting systems. All machinery is manufactured from stainless steel and food-grade materials with a focus on hygiene, durability, and full project management from design through installation. The company operates a machine shop with CNC and manual turning/milling capabilities and offers refurbishment services for existing equipment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Liquid Depositing Machines Range of depositing machinery for accurate doses of liquids and liquids with suspended semi-solids. Includes Micro Fill (up to 120ml), Eco500 (up to 500ml), Mini-Fill (up to 410ml, 100 fills/min), Midi-Fill (up to 1.25L), Magnum-Fill (up to 3L), and Mega-Fill (up to 5.3L), achieving typical variance of less than 1%. Designed for food manufacturers producing sauces, soups, purees, oils, and other liquid products.
• Multi-Outlet Liquid Depositor Bespoke multi-outlet liquid depositing system with 2-12 outlets. Cost-effective solution for simultaneous multi-nozzle depositing with miniature general purpose nozzles. Throughput of 30 cycles x 8 outlets = 240 fills per minute, best suited to deposits up to 100ml. Designed for high-volume food manufacturing operations.
• Auger-Fed Volumetric Filling Machine Volumetric filling machine for dry and semi-dry products such as rice, pasta, salads, and vegetables. Available in 1-4 lane models with throughput up to 120 fills per minute and filling weight range up to 1000g per cycle. Features Mitsubishi Touch Screen HMI with recipe menu selection.
• Unifill Volumetric Filling Machine Vibratory-fed volumetric filler designed for minimal product degradation. Available in single and twin lane models with throughput up to 60 fills per minute. Best suited to dry, free-flowing, particulate products with very low margin of error.
• VL Range Vegetable Spiralizers Market-leading vegetable spiralizers that cut vegetables into spaghetti, noodle and tagliatelle cuts. Available in VL2 (2 lanes, 4" heads), VL4 (4 lanes), VL2+ (2 lanes, 6" heads for larger vegetables), and VL4+ models. Features touchscreen HMI with programmable recipes, adjustable cut length reduction, and rotating cutting blade that allows simple operation without tightly graded product.
• Hasselback Potato Cutting Machine Machine that produces multiple clean cuts in size graded potatoes at speeds of 120 pieces per minute plus. Product is conveyed into a guarded area for cutting with cut product running off for oil coating or preservative dipping. Hand-loaded with 2 operators.
• Cabbage Coring & Segmenting Machine Semi-automated system to remove cores from cabbage and segment for further processing. Processes up to 20 cabbages per minute with 1 operator. Produces wedges, halves and segments with or without removing cores.
• Carrot Topping & Slicing Machine Semi-automated carrot topping and slicing system. Hand loaded with loosely graded product, processes up to 60 carrots per minute. Waste tops are separated into bins with cut product leaving into dolav or tote bin.
• Parsnip Cutting & Segmenting Machine Automated system to top and tail parsnips before wedging into 4's, 6's or 8's for roasting. Processes up to 50 parsnips per minute with 2 operators. Simple blade changeover for different segment cuts.
• Cucumber Coring & Segmenting Machine Cucumber segmenter and de-corer that tops, tails and halves cucumbers before segmenting. Throughput can exceed 10 whole cucumbers per minute. Interchangeable blades and plungers for 2, 4, 6 or 8 segments with or without seed core removed.
• Apple Corer/Segmenter Hand operated apple corer with interchangeable coring tube sizes (16mm to 35mm) and coring/segmenting configurations with 2 to 16 segment blade options. Lever operated with fully interchangeable coring and segmenting capability.
• Liquid Transfer Pumps Pneumatic transfer pumps for bulk liquid transfer between vessels. Includes TP1500 (1,500Kg/hour, stirrup lift pump), TP2000 (2,000Kg/hour, piston displacement), and TP4000 (4,000Kg/hour). Fully adjustable speed controls with quick dismantle for cleaning.
• Rotary Pot Filling & Lidding Machines Compact rotary pot filling and lidding machinery. Includes VMF8 (8-station, up to 35 pots/min), VMF16 (16-station, up to 70 pots/min), and RS12 (12-station, servo drive, up to 80 pots/min). Suitable for soups, sauces, sandwich fillers, wet salads and desserts.
• Flat Belt Conveyor Track Stainless steel flat belt conveyors designed for hygiene, safety and minimal maintenance. Features removable continuous PU flighted belt for deep cleaning with Anti-Bac belting options. Fully adjustable to suit various container styles and packaging types.
• Indexing Conveyor for Line Automation Indexing conveyor systems with peg chain, push bar and platen layout options. Designed for start-stop applications where depositing into stationary containers is required. Features laser cut safety interlocked guarding and motor gearbox or servo motor drive options.
• Modular Conveyor for Bends & Curves Modular conveyors for transport through bends and curves with wash-through belt materials. Belting from Ameraal Beltech UniChains. Available with conveyor flights and can be manufactured for indexing applications.
• Easi-Clean Elevators Stainless steel elevators designed for hygiene, safety and minimal maintenance. Designed for simple no-tool stripdown with belt removable for hygiene cleaning within minutes. Customizable length, width, incline, belting type and hopper capacity.
• Pot, Tray & Tub Denesting Bespoke denesting machinery designed and manufactured to suit specific trays and pots. Pneumatically operated with rack and pinion driven scrolls. Stainless steel and hard anodised aluminium construction with stainless steel overhead magazines.
• Eccles Cake Press Custom made machine that flattens balls of pastry to make perfect Eccles cakes prior to baking process. Designed for bakery production environments.
• Bostwick Consistometer Quality control instrument for measuring consistency, flow rate and viscosity of jams, jellies and other highly viscous products. Stainless steel construction with spring operated gate and graduated trough in 0.5cm divisions.
• Used/Reconditioned Equipment Quality used food processing machinery direct from Winyard Engineering. Includes refurbished equipment with full aftercare service and customization options using parts from stock.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 120 fills per minute for dry goods depositing
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 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.

• Hayssen FlexibleminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 June 2017Winyard Engineering was invited to demonstrate a Midi-Fill MKII depositor at IMPACKED 2017 - the UK's largest in-house packaging event. The depositor was mounted over a Hayssen Flexible VFFS machine producing filled bags of liquid product.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ProMach: US packaging machinery platform with strong filling, capping, and conveying capabilities. Adjacent competitor to Winyard's pot-filling/lidding machines and conveyor product range for SME food manufacturers.
• GEA Group: Global large-cap supplier of food processing, packaging, and dairy equipment across hundreds of categories. Overlaps with Winyard's filling/depositing capabilities only as one small segment of a much broader portfolio serving large industrial customers.
• Tetra Pak: World's largest food packaging and processing company, covering fillers, processing lines, and complete plant engineering. Winyard's filling/depositing offering competes only at the SME end of Tetra Pak's serving range.
• Marel: Iceland-headquartered global supplier of food processing equipment for meat, poultry, and prepared foods. Larger, diversified competitor where Winyard's depositing and spiralizing ranges intersect at the prepared-foods overlap.

Direct peers

• Heat and Control: US-headquartered manufacturer of food processing, seasoning, and conveying equipment for snack and prepared-food manufacturers. Overlaps with Winyard on filling/depositing machinery and supporting line integration for mid-market food producers.
• Hinds-Bock: US manufacturer of depositors, piston fillers, and volumetric filling machinery for food, dairy, and bakery customers. Closely comparable product set to Winyard's Mini-Fill / Midi-Fill depositor range and similar custom-engineered positioning.
• Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery: Manufacturer of volumetric and auger-fed filling equipment for dry and semi-dry food products. Directly overlaps with Winyard's Auger-Fed Volumetric Filling Machine and Unifill product lines for dry-goods deposition.
• Vemag: German manufacturer of filling, portioning, and forming equipment for food producers. Comparable to Winyard on piston and auger-based volumetric depositing for prepared and convenience food applications.
• Orics Industries: US manufacturer of industrial vacuum fillers, depositors, and portioners for food and dairy producers. Competes head-to-head with Winyard's depositor and volumetric filling product lines for ready-meals and sauces.
• Handtmann: German manufacturer of food processing and depositing/filling equipment for meat, dairy, and convenience food producers. Direct competitor to Winyard's Mini-Fill and Multi-Fill depositor ranges, with similar target customers in ready meals and prepared foods.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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