ProMach has acquired Zanichelli Meccanica S.p.A., identified to the market as Zacmi, a Parma, Italy-based producer of filling, seaming and pasteurization expertise for the pet meals trade.
ProMach mentioned the addition of Zacmi additional expands ProMach’s in depth product portfolio and strengthens its place as one of many world’s largest suppliers of course of, filling and methods integration options.
Based in Parma in 1954, Zacmi provides high-quality filling, closing and sterilization gear for meals and pet meals merchandise, in addition to seamers for steel cans. The corporate additionally supplies pasteurization tunnels for sterilizing meals merchandise and has developed rehydrated pea and legume preparation strains to assist its meals shoppers.
Zacmi holds practically 50 patents and is well-known for its hygienic machine designs and its dedication to innovation, mentioned ProMach. Because the firm’s inception, over 2,500 Zacmi machines have been put in worldwide. With over 120 workers supporting its loyal buyer base, Zacmi has operated as a typical “pocket-sized multinational,” a household enterprise with an working subsidiary within the U.S. and Italian-based R&D and manufacturing services devoted to the event and meeting of modern packaging gear options.
Whereas this acquisition will additional strengthen ProMach’s product providing and permit it to unravel a wider vary of buyer challenges, the corporate mentioned it’s going to additionally provide Zacmi the chance to offer extra options in market sectors that ProMach presently serves, together with beverage and powdered merchandise.
“We’re happy to welcome the Zacmi workforce to ProMach,” mentioned ProMach president and CEO Mark Anderson. “The addition of Zacmi additional strengthens our place as one of many trade’s main suppliers of filling and course of expertise. This acquisition additionally permits us so as to add key merchandise to ProMach’s total packaging gear portfolio, like meals can filling and seaming. Most significantly, this acquisition additional helps our strategic imaginative and prescient of offering prospects around the globe with full options and assist from a powerful international companion.”
Full packaging line options
Zacmi and its whole workforce will be a part of ProMach’s main packaging enterprise line led by enterprise unit president Doug Stambaugh. With go-to-market product manufacturers together with Fogg, Trendy, P.E. Labellers, and Zalkin, ProMach’s main packaging enterprise line supplies a broad resolution providing that features filling, labeling and shutting.
Zacmi will work intently with different ProMach manufacturers to supply full packaging line options. The acquisition permits ProMach to determine a place within the meals and pet care sectors the place can filling and sterilization are required, mentioned Stambaugh.
“The Zacmi workforce has a popularity for designing sturdy technical options, manufacturing high-quality gear, and for offering distinctive customer support,” mentioned Stambaugh. “The addition of Zacmi to our main packaging workforce not solely strengthens our filling and shutting portfolio, nevertheless it additionally considerably bolsters our capability to supply built-in methods. The chance to pair Zacmi filling and shutting expertise with different ProMach firms like Allpax, a world chief in retort, will permit us to raised serve our prospects by providing extra full options.”
Zacmi’s present management workforce will stay intact, with present managing director Giorgio Boselli assuming the position of VP & common supervisor, and in recognition of her years of management as Zacmi’s president, Caterina Pagani will retain an honorary directorship.
“We’re excited to be part of the trade’s most revered packaging and processing firm,” mentioned Boselli. “ProMach has a confirmed observe file of investing in its firms and leveraging its scale to raised serve its prospects. Our workers will profit from ProMach’s in depth portfolio of options and relationships, and we all know that this transfer will make sure the continued development of Zacmi.”
