Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing
This class includes:
- manufacture of dryers used in agriculture
- manufacture of machinery used in the dairy industry: milk filters, milk processing machines (condensers, etc.), milk processing machines (cookers, mixers, butter churns), cheese-making machines (condensers, presses, etc.)
- manufacture of machinery for the flour-milling industry: cleaning, sorting, sizing machines for seeds, grains, dry legumes (winners, sieve belts, separators, brush grain cleaners, etc.), machinery for the production of coarse and fine flour (mills, rollers, dividers, sieves, bran-cleaning machines, rice mills, pea mills, etc.)
- manufacture of presses, crushers and similar machinery for winemaking and fruit juice production
- baking, manufacture of machinery for the production of pasta: bread ovens, dough mixers, dough dividers, slicers, molders, pastry baking machines and similar machines
- manufacture of machinery for the production of various foodstuffs: confectionery, cocoa, chocolate, sugar, beer, meat and poultry, fish and seafood processing, primary processing of fruits, vegetables, nuts, cleaning and filtering, other industrial processing machinery and beverage production
- manufacture of machinery for the extraction and preparation of animal and vegetable oils
- manufacture of machinery for the primary processing of tobacco, production of cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff
- manufacture of machinery for the preparation of food and beverages in hotels and restaurants.
This class excludes:
- manufacture of equipment for irradiating food and milk, see 26.60
- manufacture of packaging, wrapping and weighing equipment, see 28.29
- manufacture of machinery for cleaning, sorting and grading eggs, fruit and other agricultural crops (except seeds, cereals and dried legumes), see 28.30