FIRST AMENDMENT OF JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION SALARIED EMPLOYEES' EQUIVALENT RETIREMENT PLAN

Exhibit 10.1

FIRST AMENDMENT OF

JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

SALARIED EMPLOYEES’ EQUIVALENT RETIREMENT PLAN

WHEREAS , John Bean Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) maintains the John Bean Technologies Corporation Salaried Employees’ Equivalent Retirement Plan (the “Plan”);

WHEREAS , the Company now deems it necessary and desirable to amend the Plan in certain respects; and

WHEREAS , this First Amendment shall supersede the provisions of the Plan to the extent those provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of the amendment;

NOW, THEREFORE , by virtue and in exercise of the powers reserved to the Company under Section 9 Amendment and Termination of the Plan, the Plan is hereby amended in the following respects, effective January 1, 2010:

1. Section 2 of the Plan is hereby amended to add the following sentence to the end thereof which shall read as follows:

Notwithstanding any Plan provision to the contrary, no Employee shall become a Participant in the Plan on or after January 1, 2010.

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