Indeed, in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2018, Hillenbrand garnered 69% of its $1.77 billion in revenue from the Process Equipment Group and 31% from caskets and related products.

Over time, most industries tend toward consolidation. One ambitious player does a “roll-up,” buying out smaller rivals, there are other moves in response, and within a short time there are ...

Over the past five years, Hillenbrand has strategically acquired three new businesses in deals worth $1.2 billion that have remade the casket maker into a major manufacturer of processing equipment.

Acquisition targets didn’t take Hillenbrand Inc. seriously when the Batesville-based casket maker first went a-courtin’. Perhaps they should have. Hillenbrand was sitting on a pile of cash ...

U.S. coffin maker Hillenbrand Inc will buy Coperion Capital GmbH, a German maker of material handling equipment, for 408 million euros ($528 million) in its biggest acquisition yet, moving further ...

The transformation continues for Batesville, Ind.-based Hillenbrand Inc., which acquired industrial equipment maker Schenck Process Group's Food and Performance Materials (FPM) business for $730 ...

APS equipment, which makes up 47 percent of Hillenbrand sales, is sold mostly to plastics companies in the automotive, consumer goods, chemicals, packaging and construction markets.

Batesville, Indiana-based Hillenbrand Inc. will acquire Schenck Process Food and Performance Materials, also known as FPM, for $730 million, says a news release.