The Marchesini Group has acquired 40 per cent of the infeed system maker Vibrotech.
Vibrotech, based in Pisa, Italy, started in 2005 as a spin-off of technicians with twenty years of experience in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic fields.
Marchesini’s take-over of a minority share will not change Vibrotech’s commercial organisation, as it will continue to work directly with the marketplace and with other packaging machinery companies.
Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini
This acquisition allows Vibrotech and Marchesini to strengthen their businesses for opportunities in Industry 4.0 and automation processes, developing systems that provide sorted and positioned components.
Pietro Cassani, CEO of the Marchesini Group, said: “We all know by now that no business will be able to escape from Industry 4.0. It’s the real and enormous challenge of the future: it involves investments and new projects and this is why we undertook the transaction, which has launched a development and boosting process that will continue over the coming months.
“Marchesini was working on Industry 4.0 well before it ‘came into fashion’, because when you work with pharmaceutical companies, not only do you have to be efficient but you must always be on top of innovation too. We have been working for many years on a variety of robotic solutions and all the machines and software programs are made in-house. We intend to continue this tradition also by enriching our expertise through the acquisition of other companies.”
Giuseppe Trotta, founder of Vibrotech, said: “Just two years ago, during a meeting with the students of some technical schools of our area, I said that I would have liked to take on more youngsters but that it was hard to find the right people. We lose millions in work orders every year due to the lack of qualified personnel, so the addition of the Marchesini Group to Vibrotech will bring fresh air and allow us to grow in a more focused and wider direction.”
