Berkel
Indiana Story
The
short
history of the Berkel U.S. La Porte
Indiana
In
the late 1890s, a men by the nameof Van Berkel from the
Nearly
a century later, the company started by Berkel produces more than just that sole
rotating knife. Berkel Inc. produced food processing equipment for food retail
and food service industries, slicing machine, scales, saws, choppers, mixer,
bread slicers and grinders.
It
is also now a worldwideorganization, with the parent company in Netherlands. The business come form the
Over
the last 73 years Berkel expanded from a small, slicer-onlyoperation to a
nationwide sales service companyoffering a complete lineof food processing.
The
company wentoutof business in La Porte in 2002.
Special
thanks to
