Sacmi Rigid Packaging Technologies has brought all its solutions under one roof with its new Business Unit.
In doing so, the company aims to enhance its numerous market-leading technological plus-points and keep pace with the industry’s accelerating focus on sustainability, versatility and performance.
Business Unit General manager Vezio Bernardi said: “Sacmi has always stood out on account of its ability to develop specific technologies for every single stage of rigid container manufacture, closure, assembly and quality control”.
The unit aims to take a sector and technological trend-based approach by setting up new, even more effective internal synergies. Moreover, it aims to merge cores businesses with new ones in post-processing, an area strengthened in 2020 by the acquisition of Velomat.
Mr Bernardi noted this latest addition has been “fast and effective, allowing Sacmi to expand its range towards multi-line and multi-material solutions”.
Post-processing includes all technologies downstream from the manufacture of the individual product, such as cap slitting and folding which, while primarily intended for compression, can also be extended to the injection sector through integration with Velomat-supplied solutions.
Thanks to the work done by its own lab and close collaboration with universities, certification bodies and customer-partners themselves, Sacmi has been leading research efforts to find new materials for years. Such materials have evolved, especially in the plastics field, to keep pace with technological trends and comply with standards designed to ensure the industry develops sustainable packaging.
Lightweighting, tethered caps, integrated capsule-preform design, in-line computer vision systems that use predictive and AI algorithms: these are just some of the things the unit will focus on during 2021 as it seeks to strengthen its technologies for each business area-sector.
That strengthening will also involve, together with plastics, the metal packaging production/quality control sector, the search for alternatives to plastic, and other future developments the international packaging industry will need to face in the coming years.