Hosokawa Alpine Aktiengesellschaft Germany since its foundation in 1898 Hosokawa Alpine has been developing, engineering and manufacturing components and turnkey systems at the headquarters in Augsburg for processing powders in the food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, minerals, metals and recycling industries. As member of the Hosokawa Micron Group, Hosokawa Alpine is the world's largest supplier of systems designed for powder & particle processing with facilities for research, engineering, manufacturing and service in the world's major industrial markets. The food division is specialised in processes for the production of food and feed through the grinding and classification of spices, tea, sugar, starch, cocoa, tobacco, thickening agents, emulsifying agents, lactose and processes as protein shifting.