Sacmi

Preform production

Bottle making

Filling

Sacmi
Founded	1919
Headquarters	Imola, Italy
Website	www.sacmi.com

Sacmi is a multinational group manufacturing machines and complete plants for the Ceramics, Packaging (Beverage and Closures&Containers), Food and Automation industries. The group holds well-established positionson international markets.

The Sacmi Group has over 80 companies in 28 countries, production plants, distribution firms and service ones controlled by the parent company in Imola. Over 89% of Group sales come from exports.

The Sacmi Group provides assistance and services all over the world thanks to a companies global Network on every continent.

Products / Technology

Sacmi’s Packaging division, through its Beverage and Closures&Containers Business Units, provides customers with both individual machines and complete "turn-key" plants, offering a vast range of beverage packaging solutions covering:

• Bottling
• Closures
• PET performs
• Automatic buffer
• Blowing
• Plastic containers-CBF
• Filling
• Conveying systems and automation
• Labelling
• End-of-line automation
• Form-Fill-Seal

History

Nine unemployed men from Imola founded the cooperative in 1919.[1] The founders were Luigi Santandrea, Filiberto Gamberini, Tiepolo Castaldi, Paolo Nonni, Giovanni Bartoli, Guido Selvatici, Vincenzo Franceschelli, Aldo Galassi and Armando Panari. Panari was from Mordano the others were from Imola They formed the Società Anonima Cooperativa Meccanici Imola from which comes the acronym SACMI.It began activity as a mechanical workshop engaged in general construction and repair. Its first administrator was a former mayor of Imola.

Today, after many years of manifold activities, Sacmi is concentrating on the "core" businesses (ceramics, packaging).Thanks to the expansion of the IPS (injection preform moulding) platform range that Sacmi was able to demonstrate its flexibility in different sectors and with different technologies for the Beverage market in order to satisfy the requirements of its partners, while enhancing the compression technology with which Sacmi revolutionised the international closure market. In this sector efforts and resources are concentrated both on developing caps and containers that are increasingly thinner and performing, as well as on making the technical and technological offer even more competitive (by reducing the cycle times with innovative mould cooling solutions). This is all accompanied by investments for the expansion and technological upgrade of the 360° quality inspection and control systems, both on the line as well as in the laboratory. Solutions that were initially developed for controlling labelled containers have been extended to other steps of the packaging-beverage chain, from preforms to decorated metal caps, and even to Cube Eye for the 3D X-ray inspection of caps-bottles.

In addition to a greater focus on its core businesses, the company is also concentrating on a targeted acquisition policy, such as the 2014 acquisition of Cosmec, a company in Vicenza specialised in automated brick handling solutions. A farsighted operation that is able to provide a decisive impetus to the Group's position in the Heavy Clay industry, also thanks to the commercial and productive synergy with Gaiotto Automation, the Group company specialised in the design of process automation solutions.

In addition, other activities continued in order to operate in a widespread manner, near our markets and customers around the world: this is reflected by our decision, for example, in 2014 to centralise the Beverage sales management as well as to make new investments in emerging countries and areas with the consolidation of three companies established in Africa – which is the result of a forward-looking decision taken at the end of 2013 after years of intense commercial and technological penetration work to invest in a continent with such enormous potential, also in terms of development of new well-being for the local communities.

References

PETplanet Insider Articles

Issue 07 / 2017: Process integration to advanced bottle production
Issue 04 / 2017: Sacmi‘s response to food & beverage market trends in China
Issue 04 / 2017: Sacmi excellence for food & beverage packaging
Issue 03 / 2017: Polarised light is the key
Issue 11 / 2016: Entire integration for the beverage industry
Issue 11 / 2016: Beverage technology at drink technology India
Issue 10 / 2016: 1,000 caps p/m with 24 cavities at a cycle time of 1.4s
Issue 04 / 2016: Capping / Closures: Decorating coloured caps
Issue 03 / 2016: Inspection: Interacting inspections
Issue 03 / 2016: Trade show preview: Caps, labels and more
Issue 12 / 2015: Packing / Palletising: In-house exhibition at Sacmi, Imola
Issue 11 / 2015: Products: Sacmi launches Colora Cap on-cap digital printing solution
Issue 10 / 2015: Sacmi: fillers, labellers and the latest in crown cap-making technology
Issue 09 / 2015: Total integration for the beverage supply chain at the „Food & Beverage Plastic Day“
Issue 06 / 2015: Inspection systems for preforms
Issue 04 / 2015: Caps and quality control
Issue 04 / 2015: Sacmi expands preform system proposal SGM from 220t to 400t
Issue 03 / 2015: New closure solutions
Issue 03 / 2015: Sacmi at Propak East Africa
Issue 11 / 2014: Moulding – Injection or Compression
Issue 09 / 2014: Five caps production lines o fScami installed in Vitaqua GmbH, Breuna
Issue 06 / 2014: Sacmi Research Centre Pepsi certified
Issue 05 / 2014: Sale of Sacmi‘s Plastics Division to Kingsbury
Issue 04 / 2014: Complete lines
Issue 04 / 2014: Caps and more
Issue 03 / 2014: Sacmi doubles output in Venezuela
Issue 12 / 2013: Caps & closures – Sacmi
Issue 12 / 2013: Caps, containers and preforms
Issue 10 / 2013: Caps, containers and preforms
Issue 09 / 2013: Biodegradable caps
Issue 07 / 2013: End-to-end solutions
Issue 06 / 2013: Form-fitting flexibility
Issue 06 / 2013: Sacmi sets the benchmark
Issue 05 / 2013: Meet the specialist
Issue 03 / 2012: Addition to the family
Issue 04 / 2012: Sacmi holds open house for IPS

External links

Sacmi Website