Who are we 

 

Since 1946 our driver has been to innovate in order to provide the best possible support to bakery professionals. This longevity, we owe it above all to our customers: to their trust, their encouragement and their experience sharing.
 
Our customers are always our priority. The JAC team and our partners support you with responsiveness and flexibility in more than 90 countries. We offer two product lines: bread slicers and dough processing, with an emphasis on innovation and future-oriented technology at your service.

 

Our customers: the bread specialists across more than 90 countries

 

Our customers are bread specialists around the world, whether they are craftsmen in a single point of sale or organized in several hundred or thousands points of sale, like the grocery stores and supermarkets chains. Starting from bread dough, they offer an infinite number of variations of products representing the tastes of their consumers, their know-how, their creativity and their traditional recipes.

 

They are very demanding about the quality of what they produce and sell.

 
The ability to meet the expectations of our customers regardless of their specific types of bread is an imperative that characterizes our machines and sets us apart.

 

A team: passionate and customer-centered

JAC is first of all a team of enthusiasts centered on clients. Over the years, the team has grown while always prioritizing responsiveness and flexibility to support our clients in their activities and developments. The company has remained family-owned, which allows us to build and invest for the long term with our clients.

The team is distributed geographically between our four sites:

Liège in Belgium, bread slicers production, R&D and client support centre,

Langres in France, dough processing production, R&D and client support centre,

Boston in the USA, for client support in North America,

Moscow in Russia, for client support in Russia and Eastern Europe.

 


Our network of approved and trained partners are close by our customers and provide local after-sales service during the many years of use of our machines.
Also bread passionate and specialists, they are experts in our products and their local markets. They share our philosophy and our duty that customers can rely on our equipment in all circumstances to develop their business.

 

Products: innovation, quality and high added value

From the JAC bread slicers which have built our reputation and have allowed us to become the world leader in this sector, we have developed a complete range of machines in the fields of bread slicing and of dough processing.
 
Each of the products that you discover on our website is born from listening to the aspirations of our customers and then from the imagination and perseverance of our engineers. Being at the forefront of technology and improving the performance of our machines is our daily goal.
 
All of our machines are manufactured in our factories in Belgium and France, which allows us to best ensure the level of quality that has made our reputation.
 
In addition, our continuous investments in our production tools and the leadership position that we have been fortunate to build enable a price-quality offer that makes our products profitable and efficient investments for our customers.

Quelques dates clés

 

1946 foundation of the company JAC (the initials of the founder's children: Jacques, Amélie, Charles)


1949 : manufacture of the first bread slicer

 

 

 


1974 invention of the self-service bread slicer for supermarkets and grocery stores, which became a standard for retailers across the world

 

 

 

 

 


1992 definition of standard size for bread slicers, 60x60cm, to facilitate integration in stores furnishing

 

 

 

 

 

 


2000 launch of the dough processing range, through the takeover of the company Marie / Prodec, followed by the takeover of the company Matfour

 

 

 


2005 : invention of the ISC® (Intelligent Slicing Control) system, managing the cutting speed to fit all types of breads (JAC patent)

 

 

 

 


2006 : opening of JAC Boston, to serve customers in North America as closely as possible

 

 

 

 


2010 launch of the range of variable thickness slicers (Varia)

 

 

 

 

 

 


2016 invention of Click&Cut for dividers, for fast and easy change of dividing grids (JAC patent)

 

 

 

 


2016 invention of Automode, the touchless bread slicer (JAC patent)

 

 

 

 


2017 doubling of Langres factory capacity, which has become a dedicated center for dough processing

 

 

 

 


2017 : integration of the slicers manufacturer Wabäma

 

 

 


2018 : opening of JAC Moscow, to serve customers in Russia and Eastern Europe as closely as possible

 

 

 

 


2018 integration of the slicer manufacturer ABO

 

 

 

 


2018 invention of Easyflour for dividers, the integrated flour dispenser (JAC patent)

 

 

 

 


2019 start-up of the new factory and offices in Liège, dedicated center for bread slicing, representing a tripling of our slicer production capacity. The factory has the nice particularity of being built on an old slag heap, a hilly site dotted with ponds

 

 

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