Berkel

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.berkel.com

One could say that Berkel's foodservice equipment is the best thing since sliced bread. In fact, it helps produce sliced bread. Berkel makes bread slicers, food processors, heavy-duty mixers, meat slicers, meat tenderizers, stir-fry cutters, and vacuum packing equipment. The company also makes planetary mixers, bowl-type food cutters, vertical cutter/mixers, and a range of meat grinders. Berkel, which traces its 19th-century beginnings to the Netherlands, is a unit of Illinois Tool Works' ITW Food Equipment Group division.

Officers:
President: Mike McNeel
Manager, National Sales and Marketing: Foodservice & Food Retail Equipment Manufacturing

Competitors:
Advance Tabco
Alto-Shaam
Lincoln Foodservice

For other uses, see Berkel (disambiguation).

Berkel
The Berkel near Eibergen
Origin	Westphalia
Mouth	IJssel 52°8′25″N 6°11′28″E / 52.14028°N 6.19111°E / 52.14028; 6.19111Coordinates: 52°8′25″N 6°11′28″E / 52.14028°N 6.19111°E / 52.14028; 6.19111
Basin countries	Germany, Netherlands
Length	110 km

The Berkel in Gescher

The Berkel is a river in the Netherlands and Germany. It is a right tributary of the River IJssel.

The river rises in Billerbeck, near the German city of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, and crosses the border with the Netherlands near Vreden (Germany) and Rekken (Netherlands). From there, it flows through the province of Gelderland to join the IJssel at Zutphen after about 110 kilometres.

Before the coming of the railway, the Berkel was a major shipping route for goods from Münster to Eibergen, Borculo, and Zutphen, transported in flat-bottomed boats called Berkelzompen. In the 1950s, the Dutch stretch of the river was channelized to prevent flooding and to improve drainage. Recently old bends have been reconnected to the straightened lengths of the river.

Towns along the course of the Berkel include:

• in Germany: Billerbeck, Coesfeld, Gescher, Stadtlohn, Vreden
• in the Netherlands: Eibergen, Borculo, Lochem, Almen, Zutphen

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