Food and beverage processing machinery industry includes machinery manufacturing for processing various food, beverages, and tobacco, such as food and milk processors, food millers (e.g. flour), seed hullers (e.g. rice), wine fermenters, juicers, bread and noodle makers, cigarette rollers, and various other food and beverage processing machines.

The food and beverage processing machinery industry has a very good prospect in Indonesia because, in addition to continuous increase in demand due to Indonesian population growth, majority of food and beverage processing machines used here are still imported.

From production perspective, in 2004, Indonesian food and beverage processing machinery industry experienced a positive growth after a drastic decline in 2003. In that year, the value of the industry was 13,377,049,000 Indonesian rupiahs, a sharp increase from the 2003 figure of 3,813,000,000 Indonesian rupiahs. In 2002, the value was already 40,850,787,000 Indonesian rupiahs.

The number of companies active in the industry is still low, so the opportunity to invest is wide open. In 2002, it was only seven companies. It went down to three in 2003 before bouncing back to seven in 2004.