Form: CORRESP

Correspondence

July 3, 2008

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200 East Randolph Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60601

 

Sarah B. Gabriel

   

To Call Writer Directly:

  (312) 861-2000   Facsimile:

(312) 861-2227

    (312) 861-2200

sgabriel@kirkland.com

  www.kirkland.com   Dir. Fax: (312) 846-9225

July 3, 2008

VIA EDGAR AND COURIER

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Mail Stop 3720

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Attention: Tim Buchmiller
             Andri Boerman
            Angela Crane
            Gabriel Eckstein

 

Re: John Bean Technologies Corporation
   Registration Statement on Form 10
   Filed on April 30, 2008
   File No. 001-34036

Ladies and Gentlemen:

John Bean Technologies Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), has today filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, Amendment No. 3 (the “Amendment”) to its Registration Statement on Form 10 originally filed on April 30, 2008 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”).

On behalf of the Company, we are writing to respond to the comment raised in your letter to the Company dated June 26, 2008. The response below corresponds to the caption of that comment (which are reproduced below in bold). For your convenience, copies of the Amendment are enclosed and have been marked to show changes from the Company’s Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement filed June 23, 2008.

 

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Exhibits

 

1. Please file the remaining exhibits to your registration statement and allow adequate time for review prior to requesting acceleration of the effectiveness of your registration statement.

Response. In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has filed the remaining exhibits to the Registration Statement in the Amendment.

We hope that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staff’s comment. All inquiries, comments, notices and orders with respect to this letter, should be directed to Carol Anne Huff at (312) 861-2163 at Kirkland & Ellis LLP or Sarah B. Gabriel at Kirkland & Ellis LLP at (312) 861-2227. The address of the Company is John Bean Technologies Corporation, 200 E. Randolph Drive, Floor 66, Chicago, IL 60601, Attention: Charles H. Cannon, Jr.

Please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at the number above with any questions regarding this response.

 

Sincerely,
/s/ Sarah B. Gabriel
Sarah B. Gabriel

 

cc: Charles H. Cannon, John Bean Technologies Corporation
   R. Scott Falk, P.C., Kirkland & Ellis LLP
   Carol Anne Huff, Kirkland & Ellis LLP