PFM Packaging Machinery is the parent company of the Group, and provides the administrative, technical and sales co-ordination for all its companies.
The Company, based in Torrebelvicino in the province of Vicenza, designs, manufactures and markets Flow Wrap and Form Fill Seal packaging machines and automatic systems.
The range of products comprises around 40 different models of Flow Wrap and Form Fill Seal machines, various automatic feeding systems, an infinite range of accessories for specific operations dedicated to customising machines or lines.
PFM manufacture machines for various sectors of the food industry, including cheese portions, meat, sweets and vegetables. Major sectors are baked goods and non foods, such as the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
The technical department, made up of highly skilled engineers and designers, every day develops applications which are acknowledged as being amongst the best in the world in terms of their level of innovation, customisation and performance.
The Area Manager's staff manages and co-ordinates a sales force which covers 70 countries all over the world.
The Customer Service department supplies spare parts and technical servicing in real time thanks to the large number of technicians and testers and innovative servicing instruments such as Teleservice they have available.
PFM Packaging Machinery is Vision 2000 certified.
INFORMATION:
Main production: flexible packaging machines, weighers
Complementary production: 2 mechanical components for packaging machines
Applications: bakery, confectionery, preserving, meat, dairy and non food industries
Turnover: 65 million of euros for 2007
Number of employees: 280 employees
Certifications: UNI EN ISO 9001-2000 (Vision 2000)
Geographic export areas: worldwide
Subsidiaries in the world: UK, Germany, USA&Canada
Assistance: on site & on line
Portal www.itfoodonline.com: the portal featuring technology for the food and beverage industry
Itfoodonline is the portal dedicated to technologies for the food and beverage industry: machines, systems, components and raw materials.
It contains information on Italian and foreign manufacturers of systems, equipment and machined for the production of food and beverage products, agro-alimentary products and specific products for the oil and dairy sectors and for the bottling of still and fizzy drinks. In the dough-making sector we present kneading machines, rolling machines, breaking machines and shaping machines, in the short and long, dry and fresh pasta-making sector: driers, extrusion machines and shapes, continuous kneading machines, helicoidal kneading machines, sieves, boilers for gnocchi and pasteurising machines, steam generators, coolers and freezers, in the cake and bread making sector: pourers, fillers biscuit cutters, cooling conveyor belts, freezing tunnels, roll makers, rounding devices for bread buns, confectionery cases, refiners and raising cabinets. Ovens for biscuits, fixed carriage bread baking ovens, rotary carriage bread baking ovens, fixed sheet bread baking ovens, fixed carriage patisserie ovens, rotary carriage patisserie ovens, sheet patisserie ovens, steam ovens, cooling tunnels, planetary kneading machines and helicoidal kneading machines.
In the animal preservation sector we present manufacturers of: cookers, white chambers, filling machines, cubing machines, tenderisers, cutlet making machines, slicing and dosing machines, bone saws and coolers.
In the vegetable preservation sector: systems for processing tomato, pasteurising machines, fruit and vegetable processing machines, machines for transforming agricultural products, optic selectors, vegetable washing systems, stoning machines, coring machines and peelers.
The portal present the companies that manufacture machines and systems for packing food products as well as liquid and dense products, vertical packers, horizontal packers, boxers, shapers and closing devices, as well as machines for packing in modified atmosphere and everything that regards the end of the packing line and the conveyor belt to pallet loading and unloading machines right through to the storage and food warehouse stage, where the hygiene laws in force require particular production specifications depending on the foodstuff produced. In the dairy sector for instance, the use of stainless steel is required in contact with the fresh product with non-toxic plastic materials for manoeuvring and temporary storage and storing for maturing.
Special attention is reserved for the manufacturers of industrial automation for all things concerning actuators, direct drive motors, step by step motors, control unit systems with bus applicative software and electronic instrumentation for controlling production such as: pH-meters, oximeters, kits for chemical analysis and searches for pathogens: lysteria, botulinium, salmonella, campylobacter, shigella, vibrio, e. 0157:H7, process instruments, humidity sensors and thermometers used throughout the food industry.
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Lastly, as with every production process, it is necessary to store the product and manoeuvre it inside the warehouse using suitable mechanical equipment, the storage shelves must be safe both for the product and for the operators, so metallic shelving is required and the warehouse will be suitable for holding the stock, with structures in brick or with structures and flexible and retractable and covers with loading ramps and automatic, flexible or shutter doors.
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