The robotics and automation company announced it had secured contracts for conveyor systems with Dutch vegetable processor Bakker, a palletising installation for a large-scale frozen potato facility in Canada, and four palletising systems and four industrial vehicles for a ‘‘major poultry processor’’ in the United States.
These materials handling and logistics (MHL) contracts across Europe and North America were valued at more than $12m.
Chief executive Mike Christman said the contracts were all secured within the past week.
It showed their strategy and behavioural change around providing a customer-first approach was ‘‘really starting to take hold’’.
‘‘Moving a customer from a transactional approach to a key account approach is really starting to pay dividends for our New Zealand organisation.
‘‘Instead of just that engineering mindset that we used to have, that real customer value mindset, I think that's the real key driver of this change.’’
In April, Mr Christman said the company was awarded a total of about $49m in new contracts over a four-to-six-week period.
Scott Technology is doing business with the likes of PepsiCo, Danone, Essity, EMPWR, Farm Frites, Boeing and Gallo.
It has also set the target of reaching $530m in revenue by 2030 as part of its Destination 2030 strategy.
Mr Christman said there had been green shoots within the past year and these new contracts showed the strategy was working.
‘‘We're now seeing this approach really starting to deliver in all of our domains and in all of our types of behaviour.’’
The food market was picking up and customers were investing in automation.
He estimated about 50% of the new $12m contracts were connected to new markets.
The company was already in the meat market and ‘‘quite prominent’’ within the dairy and potato industries.
‘‘If you look about bringing MHL into the meat industry, the snacks industry and the bakery industry, that's not new territory for us, but it is fairly urgent territory for us.’’
The company reported MHL revenue of $64.4m for the first half of the 2026 financial year — a 21% increase on the previous corresponding period.
MHL president Aaron Vanwalleghem said it had historically built a strong position across food processing, with particular strength in the global potato industry.
‘‘Under Destination 2030, we are leveraging that foundation to deepen relationships with key accounts, expand into adjacent food processing sectors — specifically across meat, dairy, snacks and bakery goods — whilst broadening our geographic footprint.
‘‘These recent wins demonstrate tangible progress against our strategy.’’
