PFM Packaging Machinery is an industrial group made up of seven companies: The Italian parent company, PFM Packaging Machinery, which works alongside the UK PFM LTD, Canadian PFM Corporation USA & Canada, and German PFM Germany companies. BG Pack SPA, which is based in Bergamo, specialises in manufacturing special packaging machines for resealable packaging. MBP, a company based in Mantua, specialises in the production of multi-head weighers and vertical packaging machines thereby completing the range offered by PFM. Last in order of acquisition is SPS Italiana Pack Systems, which has come back into the hands of those who founded the company after exchanging ownership a number of times: this Company from Novara manufactures automatic handling and packaging machines for baked goods and biscuits.
An extremely high level of specialisation of the individual manufacturing units, perfect integration between the individual technical departments, which however remain independent, Vision 2000 organisation of marketing and after-sales areas, these are a few of the factors which have helped the
The PFM Group meets all the requirements of flexible packaging in all the food and non food industries and has made a major name for itself on the world market.
INFORMATION:
Main production: Flexible packaging machines, weighers
horizontal flow pack, flow wrap packaging machinery, vertical form fill seat machinery,multihead weighers, automatic packaging lines.
Complementary production: 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.
In compliance with the HACCP law which sets extremely strict rules in defence of the food product and those who consume it, particular importance is taken on by everything concerning industrial cleaning, signification and hygienising, industrial flooring, industrial cleaning machines, detergents specific to the sector, machines for washing equipment such as baking dish washers, table washers and utensil washers but also for cleaning the clothes and footwear worn by operators and therefore: boot washers and dryers, apron washers, shoe washers, sterilising equipment for personal hygiene; stainless steel hand basins, sprays for hands for safety in the workplace: eye baths and emergency showers.
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.
In conclusion itfoodonline supplies every indispensable solution for the food industry for the correct production, manoeuvring, cooling, hygienising and sanitisation, storage and transport of all food products, offering the right answer to the whole food and beverage industry, from automation to the end of the line, from packing to storage, with extensive use of robotic lines and automatic machines, to food processing.