Andrea Fioravanti, PFM Group Sales and R&D Director, tells us about the strategies for growth adopted by the group:

"PFM Group ends 2011 with success responding to these times of international crisis by launching 4 great new products:

 PPMA SHOW – 26-29 September 2011, NEC Birmingham - Stand C31 -

Italian manufacturer PFM is demonstrating its top-of-range Vetta vertical form-fill-seal machine equipped for the first time with a new ultrasonic sealing system that improves seal efficiency in difficult environments and helps save materials."The Vetta is already one of PFM's most popular models as a result of its high performance and capacity to produce over 20 different pack style, including reclosable, from a single machine," points out PFM sales and operations director Chris Bolton.

September 2011:  PFM Group will introduce at PPMA in Birmingham ad at Pack Expo in Las Vegas, a full range of technological innovations for flexible packaging.
Come and visit our boots at the National Exhibition Center (NEC), Birmingham, UK, from the 27th to the 29th of September 2011 and at Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, U.S.A. from 26th to 28th of September 2011

A solution for sliced salami and cured meats, cheeses and all fresh foods to be consumed in several stages: highly convenient flow packs featuring zips packaged on PFM horizontal packaging machines. These lightweight, hermetic packages are produced at extremely high speeds.

The Mistral Servo is a flow pack type horizontal packaging machine for the production of hermetically-sealed packs with three seals and a zip with modified atmosphere.

Complete, perfectly hermetic and hygienic packaging and feeder systems. All the experience of PFM, a leader in the cheese packaging industry, has gone into these open and reclose systems never used before in the industry.

In 2002 PFM Packaging Machinery SpA, the headquarters of the PFM Group, achieved ISO 9001-2000 certification, subsequently updated to ISO 9001-2008, by DNV: one of the principal certification bodies in the world.This highly coveted milestone marked a significant point in the company’s programme of continuous improvement, aimed at its main objective: maximum customer satisfaction expressed in terms of product and service.

PFM utilises the ISO 9001 – 2008 system for quality management of all corporate organisational processes including the definition of customer requests, design,machine assembly and testing, and full customer service.
All stages of organisation are co-ordinated and managed by a team of professionals who receive ongoing training and are provided with the very latest equipment.
Products are designed by a multi-disciplinary technical department utilising structural analysis and three-dimensional design software. Utmost care is taken with machine assembly and testing which lays solid foundations for the service
department which, at any one time, has dozens of specialist service technicians scattered around the globe.
In the three years from 2008 to 2011 complete computerisation of the quality system made it possible for us to have immediate and absolutely precise feedback on individual processes. As a result, we were able to target improvements in both internal and external operations, with specific demands for quality from our suppliers contributing to increasingly higher levels of reliability for customers.
Our objective is to maintain a culture of continuous improvement in order to achieve maximum customer satisfaction. To achieve this we expect to establish a continuous relationship with the customer by involving him in each step of the process, working together to create not just a reliable, functional packaging machine, but the value that makes us competitive in the market.

SPS Italiana Pack Systems, producing automatic packaging lines for bakery products and biscuits, is preparing to open their new premises in Bogogno (Novara).

A watchful eye on market trends and on the inclination to consume confirm our belief that packaging with plastic and flexible film will be fundamental in the future of the packaging industry. Flow pack has become universally recognised and its use is becoming more and more widespread due to the advantages it offers in terms of minimal environmental impact, reduced costs, and extreme versatility.
This is why PFM is concentrating its efforts on two fronts:
1. The development of applications for fast vertical packaging;
2. The development of special applications for horizontal packaging.
And new machines are introduced: PFM Supernova for high speed singledose
packaging (up to 250 packs per minute);