The company was founded in 1965 by Jacques Vanhemens and his wife as a family business under the name HIMPE J.
The first activities of the company HIMPE J. were limited to the sale of mechanical weighing machines for the potato packers.

In 1982 the company form Vanhemens bvba was adopted and Kristine Vanhemens and Johan Vanhemens joined the company as business managers.

With the rapid advance of consumer / retail packaging, the machine range was steadily expanded with, among other things, electronic weighers, packaging machines, etc. From the early 1990s, combination / multihead weighers and vertical filling, forming and sealing machines were also added.