The food machinery and equipment market is growing at an average rate of 15% annually as there are over 6,000 food-processing companies that are currently operating. The food processing market in India is expected to attract over $32.1 million of investment by 2010. According to the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MFPI), there are thousands of bakeries, traditional food units and fruit and vegetable processing units in India. Major foreign equipment manufacturers supplying the Indian market are Alfa Laval of Sweden, Tetra Pak India Private Ltd and Buhler India Pvt. Ltd of Switzerland, Schaaf Asia Pvt. Ltd of Germany, and Cryovac India Pvt Ltd of the U S. Industry sources said that in demand are slaughter line equipment, dairy equipment, sausage casing/sausage making equipment, meat tenderising equipment, pizza making machines, mixing tanks, snack food making machinery.
