The Bonnot Company

Name

The Bonnot Company

Legal name

The Bonnot Company

Website

https://thebonnotco.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1891

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Akron

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Industrial Extruder Sales: Custom single-screw extruders sold as capital equipment ranging from bench-scale laboratory units to high-volume production machines. Machines are designed and manufactured to customer specifications based on material requirements and process parameters. Lead times typically 16-26 weeks for standard production extruders, with custom machines requiring additional time.
2. Extrusion Testing Services: Process trials conducted at the Akron, Ohio test facility generate formal reports documenting throughput, screw speed, melt temperature profile, head pressure, and output quality data. Trials are conducted on a paid basis. Data informs final machine specification and reduces commissioning risk.
3. Equipment Leasing: Lab and pilot-scale extruders and selected ancillary equipment available for lease. Lease Agreement duration is one month or longer. Enables customers to conduct product development or run pilot plant production before committing to purchase.
4. Replacement Parts: Quality replacement parts including screws, barrel liners, end caps, thrust bearings, and drive components. Available for most Bonnot extruder models regardless of original build date. Vertical integration with CNC equipment enables in-house manufacturing of parts. Stocking programs available.
5. Service & Rebuild: Field service technicians diagnose and fix problems at customer sites. Rebuild programs for high-wear applications including screw reflight, barrel relining, and gearbox overhaul. Master services agreements provide scheduled maintenance with discounted parts pricing.
6. Custom Engineering: Custom extruder development for applications with non-standard material requirements, output geometries, or process integration needs. Projects begin with consultation to define specifications. Turnkey systems integrating commercial components available.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The Bonnot Company designs, manufactures, and services custom single-screw industrial extruders ranging from bench-scale laboratory units to high-volume production machines for processing food, rubber, catalysts, ceramics, and specialty materials. All machines are built to customer specifications in Akron, Ohio with in-house CNC machining, and the company supports customers with feasibility testing, custom engineering, replacement parts, equipment leasing, and field service/rebuild programs.

Product overview

The Bonnot Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of custom single-screw industrial extruders and related equipment for processing food, rubber, catalysts, ceramics, and specialty materials. The product line is organized around multiple core extruder platforms — including Cooking Extruders (CO Series), Cold Forming Extruders (CF Series), Catalyst Extruders (CT Series), Carbon Extruders (CB Series), Clay Extruders (CL Series), and specialized lines for Rubber, Sealants, Hydrocolloids, Rodenticides, Firelogs, and Bulk Molding Compounds — complemented by auxiliary equipment (Feeders, Cutters, Controls), and supported by services (Testing, Leasing, Custom Engineering, Replacement Parts, Service & Rebuild). The company operates on a custom engineering-first model: every extruder begins with process analysis, and machines are built to customer specifications from bench-scale laboratory units to high-volume production machines. All equipment is ISO Certified and manufactured in Akron, Ohio with in-house machining capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cooking Extruders (CO Series) Single-screw cooking extruders optimized for continuous mechanical cooking of food products including cereals, pet food, aquafeed, and meat analogues. Available in five frame sizes (CO 1 through CO 8) with L/D ratios of 20:1+. Output ranges from 5-15 lbs/hour (CO 1) to 2,000-3,500 lbs/hour (CO 8).
• Cold Forming Extruders (CF Series) Single-screw extruders that continuously cool and extrude cooked doughs into precise pellets and shapes for food production lines. Available in four frame sizes (CF 6, CF 8, CF 10, CF 12).
• Vacuum Extruders (VP/VI Series) Extruders with de-airing chamber using sub-atmospheric pressure to remove entrained air from ceramic, rubber, sealant, and plastic materials. Includes patented in-line vacuum chamber and dual-stage piggy-back configurations.
• Twin Packer Extruders (TP Series) Positive-feed extruders with counter-rotating augers to enhance ingestion of difficult materials prone to bridging. Available in five sizes from 1 inch through 8 inch.
• Live Bottom Extruders (RS Series LB) Heavy-duty dual-drive single-output-screw machines with agitated hopper base for continuous processing of high-viscosity sealants, adhesives, and construction compounds delivered in bulk.
• Pugmill Mixers (PM Series) Continuous horizontal mixing machines with twin horizontal shafts carrying intermeshing paddles for homogenizing dry, semi-dry, and plastic materials before extrusion.
• Terrier Extruders General-purpose single-screw extruders with segmented cast screw segments and heavy-duty thrust bearings for high-volume continuous production. Available in SP (Single Packer) and NP (No Packer) configurations.
• Dewatering Extruders (DW Series) Continuous mechanical screw press extruders for de-watering wet distillers grain (WDG) or brewers grain, reducing moisture levels to approximately 60%.
• Laboratory Extruders (ETP Series) CE-compliant bench-scale single-screw extruders for R&D formulation work, pilot trials, and quality-control testing. Includes 1 Series (NP, TP, TP DX, TP TX configurations) and 2 Series.
• Custom Extruders Custom-designed single-screw extruders developed for applications where standard commercial offerings are insufficient, including custom feed sections, screw geometries, and materials of construction.
• Catalyst Extruders (CT Series) Purpose-engineered single-screw machines for continuous shaping of inorganic catalyst pastes into cylindrical, trilobe, quadrilobe, ring, and custom cross-section extrudates. Available in five sizes from 1 inch through 8 inch.
• Carbon Extruders (CB Series) Specialist single-screw machines for extruding petroleum coke, pitch-binder, and graphite-based carbon pastes into green electrode bodies, carbon rods, and specialty carbon shapes.
• Clay Extruders (CL Series) Single-screw extruders for clay and plastic ceramic processing, including brick, pipe, stoneware, refractory shapes, art clay products, and technical ceramics.
• Rubber Extruders (RF Series) Rubber bale feeders for pelletizing or feeding compounding extruders with high viscosity rubber. Can ingest full or partial bales of natural and EPDM rubber.
• Meat Analogue Extruder (CO Series) Single-screw extrusion system for medium- to high-moisture meat analogue (HMMA) production, developed in collaboration with Ortiz Process Technologies LLC. Produces fibrous, layered protein products from soy concentrate and wheat gluten formulations.
• Hydrocolloid Extruders (MD Series) Precision single-screw machines for medical-grade hydrocolloid gel masses used in advanced wound care, transdermal drug delivery, and medical device manufacturing. CE-marked turnkey systems.
• Rodenticide Extruders (RZ Series) Extruders for forming and shaping pest control products formulated with grain, wax, and active ingredients into pellets, cylindrical/rectangular, solid, or hollow profiles.
• Sealant Extruders (RS Series) Extruders for processing butyl and mastic rubbers into manageable profiles for downstream processing or creating various size strips.
• Bulk Molding Compound Extruders (BM Series) Single-screw extruders configured for processing fiber-reinforced thermoset bulk molding compound (BMC) into uniform charges for compression or injection molding.
• Firelog Extruders High-volume extruders for producing fire logs and fire starters from wax and wood feedstock formulations, including spent coffee grains and other waste materials.
• Food Forming Extruders (FF Series) Single-screw machines for ambient or chilled shaping of food and pet food masses into precise geometries without cooking function.
• Extrusion Testing Services On-site testing facility with an array of equipment to trial new products, confirm extrusion feasibility, and generate formal reports documenting throughput, screw speed, melt temperature profile, head pressure, and output quality data.
• Equipment Leasing Lab and pilot-scale extruders and selected ancillary equipment available for lease on a monthly basis for product development or pilot plant production. Lease agreements run one month or longer; a portion of lease payments may apply to purchase price.
• Custom Engineering Services Custom extruder design and development for applications where standard offerings fall short, with trials conducted in the test facility to refine and optimize configurations.
• Replacement Parts Quality replacement parts including screws, barrel liners, end caps, thrust bearings, and drive components, available for most Bonnot extruder models regardless of original build date, with in-house manufacturing capabilities.
• Service & Rebuild Field service technicians, rebuild programs for high-wear applications including screw reflight, barrel relining, and gearbox overhaul, plus master services agreements for scheduled maintenance with discounted parts pricing.

Quantifiable outcome

• 130+ years of continuous operation with machines remaining in active production after decades of service
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers42 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Ortiz Process Technologies LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration to develop the Bonnot Meat Analogue Extruder system for medium- to high-moisture meat analogue (HMMA) production. Ortiz contributed process technology expertise while Bonnot provided extrusion system engineering. The resulting single-screw system competes with twin-screw alternatives at approximately 1/4 the capital cost.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• CPM (California Pellet Mill): US-based manufacturer of process equipment including extruders and pellet mills for animal feed, food, and biomass. Overlaps with Bonnot's cooking extrusion and dewatering extruder segments serving similar mid-market food/feed processors.
• KraussMaffei Group: German manufacturer of extrusion and compounding machinery for plastics, rubber, and chemical industries. Overlaps with Bonnot's rubber extrusion and specialty chemical processing customer base as a broader industrial machinery incumbent.
• Hosokawa Alpine AG: German manufacturer of processing machinery including extruders for plastics, food, and chemical applications. Competes in similar industrial processing machinery segments with broader product portfolio across size reduction, classification, and extrusion.
• Bühler Group: Swiss global leader in food processing equipment including extrusion systems for breakfast cereals, pet food, and snacks. Serves many of the same F500 food customers (Nestlé, Kellogg's, etc.) but as a much broader portfolio of industrial processing equipment rather than a focused single-screw specialist.
• Marel (formerly Wenger Manufacturing): Wenger, now part of Marel, manufactures twin-screw extrusion systems for pet food, aquafeed, and human food. Competes with Bonnot's cooking extruders in the higher-volume twin-screw segment where Bonnot's single-screw alternative positions on cost.

Emerging players

• Xtrutech Ltd: UK-based manufacturer of single-screw extruders for plastics, powder coatings, food, and chemical applications. Comparable niche, custom-engineered single-screw extrusion model serving similar mid-market industrial customers, particularly in European geographies.

Direct peers

• Leistritz Advanced Technologies Corp: Manufacturer of twin-screw extruders for plastics, food, pharmaceutical, and chemical processing. Operates in similar material processing applications as Bonnot (food, catalysts, specialty chemicals) with comparable engineering consultation and custom configuration model.
• Brabender GmbH & Co. KG: German manufacturer of laboratory and industrial extruders for food, rubber, plastics, and chemical applications. Brabender's single-screw and twin-screw lab extruders directly overlap with Bonnot's ETP/CO-series and address similar R&D-to-production scale-up use cases.
• Clextral: French manufacturer of twin-screw extruders focused on food, feed, and biomass processing. Overlaps with Bonnot's cooking extrusion and pet food/cereal customer base, particularly in the two-stage cooking/cold-forming category where Bonnot's CO+CF approach competes.
• Anderson International Corp: US-based specialty manufacturer of screw presses and extruders for oilseed, food, and industrial applications. Closely comparable custom-engineering, niche industrial extrusion focus, and similar customer profile of food and industrial processors.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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