JBT John Bean Technologies Corporation

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JBT Corporation (NYSE:JBT) announced that its JBT FoodTech business has signed a $10.5 million contract with a leading North American packaged food company. The order will provide an integrated cooking and freezing solution at a frozen dinner plant in North America. "We are pleased to continue to provide our food processing customers with integrated systems that enable them to deliver new ready meal products," says Torbjorn Arvidsson, Vice President and Division Manager for JBT FoodTech's Food Solutions and Services Division. The project is currently scheduled to be operational in 2009. JBT Corporation (NYSE:JBT) is a leading global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries. JBT Corporation designs, manufactures, tests and services technologically sophisticated systems and products for regional and multi-national industrial food processing customers through its JBT FoodTech segment and for domestic and international air transportation customers through its JBT AeroTech segment. JBT Corporation employs approximately 3,100 people worldwide and operates sales, service, manufacturing and sourcing operations located in over 25 countries. For more information please visit http://www.jbtcorporation.com/ or http://www.jbtfoodtech.com/. DATASOURCE: JBT Corporation CONTACT: Investors, Cindy Shiao, +1-312-861-5931, or Media, Ken Jones, +1-312-861-6791, both for JBT Corporation Web site: http://www.jbtcorporation.com/

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