A leading automation and bottling technologies group for the food and beverage industry creates a new High-Speed Beverage Division with a combined turnover of €280 million
Omnia Technologies, a leading platform for automation and bottling technologies for the spirits, wine, beverage, dairy and pharma industries, launches a new high-speed beverage division focused on bottling-labelling-packaging technologies through the acquisitions of ACMI, SACMI Beverage and SACMI Labelling.
Headquartered in Fornovo di Taro (Parma, Italy), ACMI is a global leading designer and producer of complete packaging and bottling lines, mostly for the food and beverage industry, where it is often the primary contractor and line integrator. Founded in 1984, the company has five production facilities across Northern Italy and four commercial branches in Mexico, Poland, the UK and the USA. Its product portfolio includes palletisers and depalletisers, cartoning machines, wrappers, handlers, multifunctional robots and transportation systems. ACMI has a turnover of approximately €100 million and a workforce of approximately 420 employees.
As result of the significant strategic investments undertaken and know-how developed by SACMI in the high-speed beverage bottling and labelling sectors over the last decades, today SACMI Beverage and SACMI Labelling are among the most recognised players in the market:
- Based in Parma (Italy), SACMI Beverage provides standalone equipment and complete high-speed blowing and bottling lines for PET/rPET (virgin/recycled PET plastic), metal cans and glass packaging of liquid products. It also includes form-fill-seal technology for the dairy sector and bag-in-box solutions for the wine sector. SACMI Beverage has a turnover of approximately €110 million, a workforce of approximately 160 employees, and an installed base of more than 600 machines;
- Based in Verona (Italy) and Nanhai (China), SACMI Labelling provides automatic labelling solutions, suitable for glass, plastic and metal containers for the high-speed beverage, beer, food, detergents and wine sectors. SACMI Labelling has a turnover of approximately €70 million, employs approximately 300 workers and has an installed base of more than 1,700 machines;
- SACMI Beverage and SACMI Labelling share a global network of branches across France, Spain, Morocco, Nigeria, Singapore, UAE, Brazil, Mexico and the USA.