Founded in 1940 and located in Lancaster, Pa., Somat Company specializes in manufacturing engineered waste handling systems for the food service industry. It also serves the commercial and industrial markets. Somat Company is a member of the Illinois Tool Works Food Equipment Group. The company offers special products for pulping and dewatering food service waste in schools, hospitals, casinos, colleges, cafeterias, cruise ships and other mass feeding operations. Additionally, it offers Som-A-System, a self-contained system designed for sludge dewatering processes used in wastewater treatment plants. The company also offers pulping systems to meet the environmental clean-up requirements of ocean vessels. It additionally offers dewatering presses that are used in wastewater treatment plants for sludge dewatering and thickening processes. Somat Company also provides other specialty products for animal bedding disposal and fiber recovery in fiberglass manufacturing operations.