Packaging

Packaging in pouches. A complete range of technological solutions, strategic choices achieved and international awards: this is how Volpak says goodbye to 2018 and prepares to celebrate the milestone of 40 years of activity in 2019.

Introduced for the first time at Interpack 2017, IMA Digital shapes its vision of Smart Machines and the Smart Factory according to the unique visionary approach of the Industry 4.0 principles.

Ferrero is in talks to acquire Arnott’s Biscuits, the oldest Australian biscuit brand owned by US multinational Campbell Soup.

Fileni, one of Italy’s leading poultry producers, has opened a new fully automated distribution hub built to 4.0 technology standards in Cingoli (MC).

Handl Tyrol Group, an Austrian company that has been producing speck, ham and other meat-based original Tyrolean specialities since 1902, has officially started up its new factory in Haiming (Tyrol).

Following the results posted in 2018 (estimated revenues of €10.95 billion, up 4.3% on 2017), the Selex group has approved a 2019 investment plan worth €320 million consisting of 54 new store openings and a total of 182 renovations throughout Italy.

Italian bottled water producer Acqua S. Bernardo recently opened a new logistics hub and finished product warehouse in Ormea in the province of Cuneo as part of a €1 million investment aimed at boosting the facility’s production growth.

The Luxembourg-based private equity firm Xenon has acquired 100% of the capital of Mectra (Montecchio, Reggio Emilia) and its associated companies (Emmeti in Montecchio and the Parma-based firms Sipac and Logik).

Maxolution by Sew Eurodrive, finds application in handling standardized goods for moving inside and outside the facility, autonomous transport of goods in packaging units, autonomous interaction with other systems for seamless exchange of goods, continuous logistical chain (data and material flows).

Cama Group's IF serie  is part of the new BT equipment range of machinery, a unique and extremely versatile combination of integrated packaging machines and robotic loading units.

Deal expands Emerson’s reach in the fluid control and pneumatic devices space.

The IMA Group strengthens its range of  end-of-line machines. On 25 June 2018 IMA  finalised  with  the  Brenna  family  the  acquisition  of  70%  of Ciemme  S.r.l.,  based  in Albavilla (Como), which manufactures and markets end-of-line automatic machines, as announced on 28 May 2018.

German engineering group Robert Bosch GmbH plans to sell its packaging technology division that generated 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in sales last year to focus on its core business.

Schobertechnologies GmbH specializes in the development, design and manufacturing of rotary tools, modules and specialty machines widely used in film, foil, packaging, non-wovens and paper converting industries. This technically superior equipment is sold in more than 100 countries worldwide.  At Print4All the company presents its solutions to the Italian and international market.

This is the concept that SEW-EURODRIVE has in mind to plan the immediate future and which will be widely illustrated at Ipack-Ima thanks to two thematic exhibitions

In March 2018. PAI Partners, a leading pan-European private equity firm, has now completed the acquisition of Albéa.

The Middleby Corporation  (Illinois), a Wall Street-listed global leader in the foodservice equipment industry with annual revenues US $2.33 billion, has acquired Ve.Ma.C.

La Doria, a leading private label producer of tomato-based products, pulses, fruit juices and ready-made sauces, closed 2017 with a better than expected performance.

GPack has signed an agreement with Oaktree Capital Management LP to acquire Alliora Coffrets, based in Fougères, France. The acquisition is part of GPack Group’s ongoing development strategy centered on expanding throughout Europe.

iCapsulate chooses Cama system and doubles coffee production: high technology packaging enables a quick growth.