Our Partners
About VegTech Systems
Our History
At VegTech Systems, we deliver innovative technologies for fruit and vegetable processing and packaging, empowering businesses to meet the demands of the fresh market, frozen, and canned product industries. With a focus on efficiency, quality, and sustainability, our cutting-edge solutions streamline operations, reduce waste, and ensure top-tier results for food processors worldwide.
VegTech Systems specializes in advanced equipment tailored to diverse needs:
Specialized Production Lines:
- Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Packing Lines: From Receiving, Washing, cleaning up to Packaging.
- Broccoli & Cauliflower Line: Efficient Floretting up to packaging automation.
- French Fries Line: High-capacity systems for consistent, golden fries.
- Chips Line: Efficient processing for crispy, uniform chips.
- Green Bean Lines: Tailored solutions for snipping, sorting, and preparing green beans.
- Frozen Fruits and Vegetables: Advanced freezing technology to preserve flavor and nutrition.
- Leafy Greens Washing and Dewatering: Gentle cleaning and drying for spinach, lettuce, and kale.
- Hydro Cutter: High-pressure cutting for fresh fries and tomato slices.
- Fruits and Vegetables Drying Lines: Efficient dehydration for broccoli, garlic, onions, and more.
- Fresh Walnuts Processing Line: Dehulling and cleaning for market-ready walnuts.
- Fruit Juice Production and Bottling Line: Juice extraction and bottling for apples, oranges, and berries.
Packaging Solutions
Our state-of-the-art packaging equipment ensures your products stay fresh and market-ready:
- Vertical Baggers: Fast, reliable bagging for a variety of products.
- Stretch Wrapping: Secure, cost-effective wrapping for bulk and palletized goods.
- Tray Sealing: Precision sealing for trays, enhancing shelf life and presentation.
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Welcome to VegTech Systems-Precision in Motion
Welcome to VegTech Systems— We deliver advanced conveyor, packaging, and processing equipment, optimizing efficiency and quality for vegetable processors worldwide. Discover innovative, reliable solutions built to elevate your operation.
Manufacturing capabilities
About VegTech Systems
Our Expertise
VegTech Systems, based in Chicago, IL, proudly serves as the US representative for both Bigtem Makine A.S. and Gruppo Fabbri, offering a complete solution from receiving vegetables from the field to final packaging for fresh and ultra-fresh foods like root crops, green beans, mushrooms, artichokes, and leafy greens. Partnering with Bigtem, a specialized process engineering, design, and manufacturing company from Istanbul, Turkey, established in 1973, VegTech brings advanced food processing equipment to the American market, tailored to US food industry needs. Bigtem’s offerings include customized machinery—from conveyors to fully automated processing and packaging lines—supporting applications like fresh fruit and vegetable packaging, canning, freezing, juice production, and specialized lines for date paste, syrup, and bio-ethanol, with a focus on hygiene, durability, and minimal downtime through a robust spare parts inventory. Exporting to over 60 countries across five continents, including the US, UK, Japan, and Germany, Bigtem’s expertise is backed by a skilled team of engineers and over 100 workers. Additionally, as a representative of Gruppo Fabbri, an Italian company founded in 1950 by Umberto Fabbri in Vignola, Modena, VegTech provides their cutting-edge packaging machines and sustainable films. Gruppo Fabbri began as a small mechanical workshop and evolved into a global leader in food packaging, introducing innovations like the first automatic stretch wrapper in 1969 and expanding internationally with subsidiaries in France, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and Russia by the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with over 70 years of experience, Gruppo Fabbri employs more than 500 people, holds over 150 patents, and serves clients in 90 countries, focusing on sustainable packaging solutions. Through VegTech Systems’ Chicago-based operations, the combined expertise of Bigtem’s processing equipment and Gruppo Fabbri’s packaging solutions delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end system for American food producers, ensuring efficiency, hygiene, and sustainability from field to final packaging.
Our Values
At VegTech Systems, we are committed to delivering innovative, sustainable, and efficient solutions for the food processing and packaging industry, driven by our core values of excellence, sustainability, and partnership. Based in Chicago, IL, we proudly represent Bigtem Makine A.S., a Turkish leader in food processing equipment since 1973, and Gruppo Fabbri, an Italian pioneer in packaging solutions since 1950, to provide a seamless end-to-end system—from receiving vegetables from the field to final packaging. We value excellence by integrating Bigtem’s advanced, customized machinery—such as conveyors and fully automated lines for fresh produce, canning, and freezing—with Gruppo Fabbri’s cutting-edge packaging technology, ensuring hygiene, durability, and minimal downtime for American food producers. Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in our promotion of Gruppo Fabbri’s eco-friendly films, including compostable options like Nature Fresh and Nature Lid, and biobased solutions like Biobased Star Film, which reduce plastic waste and support organic recycling while maintaining product freshness for items like root crops, green beans, mushrooms, artichokes, and leafy greens. We prioritize partnership by tailoring solutions to meet the specific needs of our US clients, leveraging Bigtem’s global expertise across 60+ countries and Gruppo Fabbri’s 70+ years of innovation, backed by over 150 patents and a presence in 90 countries. At VegTech Systems, we strive to empower our clients with reliable, high-quality systems that enhance efficiency, uphold food safety, and contribute to a more sustainable future for the food industry.
Our Services
At VegTech Systems, based in Chicago, IL, we provide comprehensive services to the US food industry, offering end-to-end solutions for processing and packaging a wide range of products, including fresh and ultra-fresh foods like root crops, green beans, mushrooms, artichokes, leafy greens, dry fruit, dates, olives, onions, garlic, tomatoes, jams, and French fries, through our representation of Bigtem Makine A.S. and Gruppo Fabbri. We deliver customized equipment solutions by integrating Bigtem’s advanced food processing machinery—ranging from conveyors to fully automated lines for French fries processing, root crop handling, green bean processing, dry fruit and date processing, jam production, tomato processing, onion and garlic processing, olive processing, canning, freezing, juice production, pasteurizing tunnels, and specialized applications like date paste and bio-ethanol—with Gruppo Fabbri’s state-of-the-art packaging systems, ensuring seamless operations from field to final packaging. Our consultation and design services focus on tailoring these innovative technologies to meet the specific needs of American food producers, optimizing efficiency, hygiene, and durability while minimizing downtime with Bigtem’s extensive spare parts inventory. We also provide sustainable packaging solutions, supplying Gruppo Fabbri’s eco-friendly films, including compostable options like Nature Fresh and Nature Lid, and biobased films like Biobased Star Film, which reduce environmental impact while preserving product freshness across diverse applications. Additionally, our technical support and after-sales serviceensure smooth integration and long-term reliability, drawing on Bigtem’s global expertise across 60+ countries and Gruppo Fabbri’s 70+ years of innovation, with over 150 patents and a presence in 90 countries. VegTech Systems is your trusted partner for high-quality, efficient, and sustainable food processing and packaging solutions.
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