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Food Processing Equipment

Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology

Momentum: - Steady

Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.

78

Patents

3

Startups matched

14

Foreign filers

Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology

Startups working on food processing equipment

Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology

GREENOVATIVE FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED

Ernakulam · Agri & Food

1 patent taggedHighIP-backed

HIGGSFLEET INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

Pune · Robotics & Industrial Automation

1 patent taggedHighIP-backed

STEAMTECH INNOVATIVE MACHINERY PRIVATE LIMITED

Rajkot · Agri & Food

1 patent taggedHighIP-backed

A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology

Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided

Where it clusters

Matched startups by state

Startups by state
StateStartups mapped
Maharashtra
2
Gujarat
1
Kerala
1

See food processing equipment on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.

Filing momentum

Filings by year - recent years still publishing

Filings by year
YearFilingsForeign
2022177
2023192
2024222
2025133
2026partial61

Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.

Who's filing

Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate

Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
Foreign filers (6)

Top inventors in this technology

The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.

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Briefings on this technology

tech brief

India’s Food Processing Equipment: Automation Meets Tradition

From dicing paneer to peeling onions, innovators are building smarter machines for India’s kitchens and factories, driven by a market growing in the low billions.