Fen Impianti Srl

What Fen Impianti Srl does

Fen Impianti Srl is an Italian industrial equipment manufacturer that designs and builds custom-configured extrusion-based production lines for the food manufacturing industry. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tezze sul Brenta (with a registered office in Bologna), the company operates as a private limited liability company (s.r.l.) under the management and coordination of parent company Anselmo Impianti S.r.l. within the Anselmo Group. The company's core product platform consists of ten modular machine series — including the HTE single-screw cooker-extruder with four-stage temperature control, the DE high-friction cooker-extruder for direct expansion products, the MFE vacuum former-extruder, and ancillary drying, coating, flaking, and cooling systems (SPM, TO, SMT, SSD, MIS, FLC, FCD) — which combine into six distinct turnkey production line categories: snack pellets, fabricated snacks, breakfast cereals, direct expanded products, instant powders, and special pasta (including gluten-free and legume-based).

The business model centers on project-based, one-time sales of custom-engineered industrial lines bundled with full-service offerings including design, construction, supply, installation, testing, assembly, commissioning, training, and post-installation support. Pricing is project-specific and not publicly disclosed. The company serves enterprise food manufacturers globally through a direct sales network and a commissioned sales agent footprint spanning 45+ countries, with an installed base of more than 180 active production lines. Concentrations of installed plants exist in Italy (31), China (33), India (26), Russia (17), and the United States (15). The company holds ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications through Accredia-Kiwa and conducts R&D in collaboration with universities and research centers, leveraging an in-house pilot plant for process development and reproducibility.

Fen Impianti has stated expansion of its extrusion expertise into biodegradable materials beyond food applications, signaling an early diversification into non-food industrial verticals. The company has no public funding history, no disclosed revenue figures, and operates with a headcount in the 11-50 range. Its competitive position rests on proprietary extrusion technology, deep process customization, and an installed base that generates high customer loyalty and repeat business in the food processing equipment market.

Name

Fen Impianti Srl

Legal name

FEN IMPIANTI s.r.l.

Website

https://fenitalia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fen Impianti Srl designs and manufactures custom extrusion-based industrial production lines for snack pellets, breakfast cereals, instant powders, and specialty pasta, serving food manufacturers across 45+ countries with 180+ installed lines and full turnkey services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tezze Sul Brenta

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Industrial Food Processing Equipment Sales: Sale of complete industrial food processing lines and individual machines for snack pellets, fabricated snacks, breakfast cereals, direct expanded products, instant powders, and special pasta production.
2. Turnkey Project Services: Complete project services including design, construction, supply, installation, testing, assembly, commissioning, training, and post-service support bundled with equipment sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fen Impianti Srl designs and manufactures custom-configured, extrusion-based industrial production lines for food manufacturers producing snack pellets, fabricated snacks, breakfast cereals, direct expanded products, instant powders and special pasta (including gluten-free and legume-based). Each line is engineered to customer specifications and built from proprietary in-house components such as HTE Series single-screw cooker-extruders, DE Series high-friction extruders, MFE Series former-extruders, dryers, coating drums, toasters and coolers.

Product overview

Fen Impianti Srl is an industrial food processing equipment manufacturer offering a portfolio of six distinct production line categories: Snack Pellets, Fabricated Snacks, Breakfast Cereals, Direct Expanded Products, Instant Powders, and Special Pasta. Each production line consists of modular machine components including cookers, extruders, mixers (MX Series), dryer systems (FCD, SPM, ACS), coolers (CV), coating equipment (SSD, SMT), and forming machines. The HTE Series cooker extruder serves as a core processing unit across multiple lines, utilizing single-screw technology with multi-stage temperature control via water and diathermic oil circulation. The company's equipment portfolio covers the complete production workflow from raw material mixing through extrusion, forming, drying, coating, and cooling.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Snack Pellets Production Lines Industrial production lines that manufacture snack pellets (die-cut pellets, chips and 3D shapes) from potato and cereal flours, integrating mixing, extrusion, forming, drying and cooling stages. Intended for industrial food manufacturers.
• Fabricated Snacks Production Lines Industrial lines that produce wet fried fabricated chips from potato and cereal flours. Intended for food manufacturers seeking continuous, large-scale production of fabricated snack products.
• Breakfast Cereals Production Lines Production lines for traditional cereal flakes and sweet coated flakes, covering cooking-extrusion, flaking, toasting, syrup coating and drying. Intended for breakfast cereal manufacturers.
• Direct Expanded Products Production Lines Production lines for direct expanded snack products with sweet or savoury coating, including co-extruded pillows and crisp bread. The DE Series high-friction cooker-extruder enables expansion via high internal temperature and shear.
• Instant Powders Production Lines Production lines for instant flours and baby food covering extrusion, cutting, toasting and grinding. Designed to produce flours with the instant solubility characteristics required by instant food and infant formula manufacturers.
• Special Pasta Production Lines Production lines for special pasta manufactured from cereals and pulses flours, including gluten-free pasta (corn/rice), instant pasta and legume-based pasta. Covers cooking, extrusion, pre-drying, drying and cooling of specialty pasta products.

Quantifiable outcome

• 180+ active production lines installed globally
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature10 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Anselmo Impianti S.r.l.coreOthersParent company that exercises management and coordination of Fen Impianti Srl. Part of the Anselmo Group which also includes Anselmo Impianti. All group companies hold ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• GEA Group: German industrial conglomerate with a large food processing equipment division covering extrusion, drying and separation. Comparable because it serves the same food-manufacturer customers with broader scope and deeper service infrastructure than FEN.
• Bühler Group: Swiss global leader in food processing equipment for grains, snacks and breakfast cereals. Directly comparable because it sells extrusion-based turnkey lines into the same snack and cereal manufacturer customer base that FEN serves, but at significantly greater scale.
• Hosokawa Micron Group: Japanese-headquartered manufacturer of powder, particle and food processing equipment. Comparable because it provides integrated processing solutions (mixing, drying, milling, extrusion) into food and related industrial end-markets served by FEN.
• Andritz: Austrian industrial group with a food processing division covering extrusion and drying technologies. Comparable because it supplies large-scale extrusion-based food processing equipment to global CPG customers, overlapping with FEN's core customer base.
• Marel: Icelandic global supplier of food processing equipment, primarily for proteins but with growing reach into adjacent categories. Comparable as a large industrial equipment incumbent selling turnkey lines to multinational food manufacturers.

Direct peers

• Baker Perkins: UK-based manufacturer of food processing equipment for cereals, snacks, confectionery and pasta. Comparable because it offers custom-engineered production lines with installation and after-sales support, mirroring FEN's turnkey business model in overlapping categories.
• Clextral: French specialist in twin-screw extrusion technology for food, feed and bio-based materials. Comparable because its core extrusion-based lines serve overlapping end-markets (snacks, cereals, instant powders) with similar technology and customer profile.
• Coperion (Hillenbrand): German manufacturer of compounding and extrusion systems for food, plastics and chemicals. Comparable because its extrusion technology platform competes directly with FEN's extrusion lines in food and adjacent bio-material applications.
• Pavan Group: Italian-headquartered manufacturer of pasta, snack and cereal processing equipment. Comparable because it supplies turnkey extrusion and drying lines into the same food-manufacturer customer segments as FEN, with overlapping geographic reach in Europe and emerging markets.

Emerging players

• Jinan Shengrun Machinery: Chinese manufacturer of extrusion and snack-food processing equipment. Comparable because it sells twin-screw extrusion lines into the same Chinese and emerging-market snack/cereal customer base where FEN has its largest installed footprint, often at lower price points.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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