MEAF Machines

What MEAF Machines does

MEAF Machines B.V. is a Dutch industrial machinery manufacturer founded in 1947 and headquartered in Yerseke, Netherlands. The company designs and builds sheet extrusion and thermoforming machines used to process plastics into sheets and roll materials. MEAF operates as a privately held, for-profit entity with a small headcount of 11-50 employees, consistent with a niche capital-equipment supplier serving specialized industrial customers in the plastics processing value chain.

The company's product portfolio centers on extrusion equipment — the upstream machinery that produces plastic sheet stock — and thermoforming equipment, which forms that stock into finished or semi-finished plastic parts. By covering both stages of the conversion process within its own product line, MEAF serves plastics converters and packaging manufacturers who require configured-to-order, long-lived production equipment rather than off-the-shelf commodity machinery. The combination of a 75-plus-year operating history and a focused equipment category suggests a specialist business model with installed-base economics and aftermarket support, though the specific revenue model, pricing structure, and channel mix are not disclosed in the available data.

Available third-party and first-party data on MEAF is sparse: the company website returned a CAPTCHA/verification page during source capture, and no disclosures on revenue, ownership, management, customers, partnerships, or recent strategic activity are present in the supplied dataset. Consequently, commercial, financial, organizational, and AI/technology details beyond the firmographic profile above cannot be reliably characterized from the input.

Name

MEAF Machines

Website

https://meaf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1947

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

MEAF Machines B.V. is a Dutch industrial machinery manufacturer founded in 1947, based in Yerseke, Netherlands. The company designs and builds sheet extrusion and thermoforming equipment used by plastics converters to produce plastic sheets and roll materials.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Plastics Processing Machinery

NAICS

Packaging Machinery Manufacturing (333993)

SIC

Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro primary industry

Thermoforming Machinery & Automation (IMANAHAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Thermoforming Sheet Extrusion (HIPS/PET/PP/ABS Sheets) (IMANACAG), Blister, Skin & Thermoform Packaging Machines (IMAHAOAI)

Keywords

• Sheet extrusion machines
• Thermoforming equipment
• Plastics processing machinery
• Industrial extrusion lines
• Plastic sheet manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Yerseke

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Core offering

MEAF Machines B.V. manufactures sheet extrusion and thermoforming machines that process plastics into sheets and roll materials. The equipment is built for industrial plastics converters and manufacturers who require reliable machinery to transform raw plastic stock into flat sheet or roll form.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sheet Extrusion Machines

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Battenfeld-Cincinnati: Specialist in extrusion technology for pipes, profiles, sheets, and foamed plastics — competes with MEAF in sheet extrusion lines but at a broader product and geographic scale.
• KraussMaffei Group: Large German machinery group offering extrusion, injection molding, and reaction-process machinery — broader portfolio than MEAF but overlaps in extrusion systems for plastics sheet producers.
• Reifenhäuser Group: German global leader in plastics extrusion technology, including sheet and cast-film lines — competes with MEAF on extrusion machinery but at significantly larger scale and broader product breadth.
• Davis-Standard: US-headquartered global supplier of extrusion and converting machinery — overlaps with MEAF in plastics sheet extrusion equipment but serves a much wider range of end markets and geographies.

Direct peers

• Omipa S.p.A. Italian manufacturer of extrusion lines for plastic sheet, film, and foam — comparable niche player serving European plastics converters like MEAF.
• Illig Maschinenbau: German specialist in thermoforming and packaging machinery for plastics — directly competes with MEAF in thermoforming equipment for industrial and packaging applications.
• SML (SML Maschinengesellschaft): Austrian manufacturer of extrusion lines for cast film, sheet, and laminating applications — closely comparable specialty machinery peer to MEAF for plastics sheet processing.
• AMUT S.p.A. Italian manufacturer of extrusion and thermoforming machinery for plastics sheet and film processing — directly comparable product portfolio and customer base (plastics converters) to MEAF Machines.
• Bandera (Luigi Bandera S.p.A.): Italian maker of extrusion plants for films, sheets, and profiles — directly comparable niche manufacturer competing for similar plastics-converter customers across Europe.

Emerging players

• Gneuss Kunststofftechnik: German specialist in extrusion and melt-filtration technology, including recycled-content processing — partially overlaps with MEAF and increasingly relevant as converters upgrade lines for rPET/PCR sheet applications.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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