About Cibamat

We don’t just fix machines. We take responsibility for your production.

Most food businesses don’t have a dedicated operations manager for their equipment. Instead, responsibility for keeping machines running gets passed around between owners, managers, and staff who already have enough on their plates — until the next breakdown happens.

At Cibamat, we exist to change that.

How we started

We originally operated as Biro UK, importing machines from Biro Manufacturing in the USA. But we quickly realised that our customers needed far more than just one brand’s products.

Food businesses don’t need salespeople pushing their own equipment lines. They need someone who acts like they work for them — helping them get the right machines, properly maintained, properly supported, and actually kept running.

So we became fully independent. That means we’re not tied to any one brand, one supplier, or one agenda. We only recommend what’s best for your operation.

Why equipment maintenance fails (and how we fix it)

In most food businesses, equipment maintenance simply isn’t anyone’s true job.

Owners get involved because equipment is expensive and important — but it’s not their core skill.Managers inherit responsibility without having the experience or knowledge to manage complex machinery.Service companies promise the world, send out engineers who don’t know the equipment, and hope for the best.

We take a different approach:

We act as if we worked for you. We take responsibility for managing your maintenance, repairs, training and advice — and we do it with total honesty. If we’re not the right people for a specific job, we say so.

How we help protect your bottom line

Maintenance isn’t just about fixing things — it’s about controlling your real costs.

Most food businesses waste money on:

Emergency callouts that could have been avoidedRepairs that fix symptoms but not root causesUnnecessary equipment purchases they didn’t really needCheap consumables that shorten machine lifeDowntime that silently drains profit every hour a line stops

At Cibamat, part of our job is to help you avoid all of that.

We don’t sell you machines you don’t need.

We don’t push unnecessary repairs.

We don’t recommend cheap fixes that cause repeat failures.

We don’t hide behind complexity.

Instead, we act like your operations manager — helping you plan, prevent, and manage your equipment properly, so you keep more of your production running, more of your orders moving, and more of your profit in your pocket.

You benefit from our buying power

Because we manage equipment and parts for multiple clients, we often have access to better pricing on spare parts, consumables, and equipment than most individual businesses could negotiate on their own.

When we get better pricing — you get better pricing. We pass those discounts directly to our clients, helping you control your long-term equipment costs even further.

No hidden markups. No games. Just the advantage of shared purchasing power, working in your favour.

Who we work with

We specialise in supporting small to medium-sized food businesses — often where processing is just one part of a larger operation, like:

Cash & carry operationsSupermarketsCatering butchersIndependent food producersMulti-site businesses without full-time engineering staff

How we’re structured

We’re not just building a team of engineers. We’re building a

network of specialists

— people who know their equipment, know their limits, and are willing to say, “that’s not my area” when it’s outside their expertise.

Cibamat acts as the glue that holds everything together:

We manage schedulingWe coordinate the right specialistsWe monitor your equipment’s conditionWe follow up after work is doneWe stay responsible for keeping your machines running

Our team is deliberately small, responsive, and personal — but backed by a wide network of the right people for every job.