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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” Ralph W. Emerson The SMI Group is made up of the parent company Smigroup, the subsidiary companies SMI, SMIPACK, SMIMEC, SMITEC, ENOBERG, SMIENERGIA, SMILAB, SARCO RE and a network of foreign branches. With a workforce of 757 people and a 105,755 m² industrial area devoted to offices and production departments, in 2023 the SMI Group achieved a sales revenue of 174 million euros. SMI designs and manufactures a wide range of bottling plants and packaging machines able to meet production requirements up to 50,000 bottles/hour and used in countless...

174 Sales revenues in 2023 millions of € Manufacturing facilities & offices (m²) 757 Employees (620 in Italy - 137 abroad) 93% of the production is exported to 130 countries, where SMI operates through an extensive network of branches, agents and resellers, providing customers with technical and sales support. SMI’s target group is extremely wide and varied as ranges from middle-sized bottlers to multinational corporations such as Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, Unilever, AB-Inbev and many more. 650 MACHINES “WET AREA” DELIVERED

250 BOTTLING LINES DELIVERED 6500 MACHINES “DRY AREA“ DELIVERED MISSION VISION SMI aims at strengthening its position of global player and satisfying the customer requirements in the best way possible, providing customized solutions strongly oriented to innovation. SMI is a customer-oriented organization, which, thanks to investments in human resources, particular attention to customer requirements, use of advanced technologies and great quality-price ratio, has become one of the world’s leaders in the packaging machines sector.

How can a small metal-working business turn into a large, forward-looking industrial reality? Thanks to Luigi Nava’s and his sons’ initiative and foresight, SMI is today capable of sealing the fate of the bottling and packaging industry through the continuous innovation and the development of Industry 4.0 and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies for the “smart factory”. Installation of the first complete bottling line Launch of the range of automatic palletizers SMI foundation and launch of the first film shrinkwrapper 2009 1999 The first stretchblow moulder is rolled out 2011 2010 Introduction...

SMI launches on the market the new EBS KL ERGON range of compact rotary stretch-blow moulders up to 25,000 bottles/hour Presentation of the ultra-compact EBS K ERGON stretch-blow moulder Moving of workshops and offices to the SMI Group’s new headquarters 2020 Launch of the new ACP series of pick & place case packers Constant innovation and attention to environmental sustainability led to the development and the launch of the TPP ERGON range, a plastic-free solution for packing cans in multipack through the application of a cardboard pad in the upper part of the pack

SMART SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY BOTTLING AND PACKAGING NEED FILLING SMI offers complete bottling and packaging lines for production needs up to 50,000 bottles/hour intended for the food & beverages sector; designed in compliance with Industry 4.0 and IoT (Internet of Things) innovative principles, SMI plants can be considered as real “smart factories” thanks to the technological solutions of the latest generation they are equipped with. The preliminary phase of every project of a new bottling line consists of an accurate analysis of the customer’s needs, coming out of sales and technical meetings between...

BLOWING AND FILLING SMI manufactures fully automatic bottling and packaging plants for rPET/PET/PP containers up to 10 L, equipped with the newest technical innovations ensuring production efficiency, operating flexibility, cost reduction and energy saving. SMI rotary stretch-blow moulders of the EBS ERGON series are designed to achieve a maximum output rate of 50,000 bottles/hour and are available in many models in two major variants: • stand-alone configuration • “combi” configuration, integrated into ECOBLOC® compact systems which combine into a single machine the operations of stretch-blow...

» ultra-compact rotary stretch-blow moulders » rotary stretch-blow moulders for high-capacity containers • output rate up to 10,000 bottles/hour • rPET/PET/PP containers from 0.10 to 3 liters • motorized stretch rods • energy-efficient IR ray lamps for the preform heating • output rate up to 7,200 bottles/hour • rPET/PET/PP containers from 5 to 10 liters • motorized stretch rods • energy-efficient IR ray lamps for the preform heating ECOBLOC® SERIES » compact rotary stretch-blow moulders » rotary stretch-blow moulders » compact stretch-blow moulding, filling and capping systems • output rate...

SECONDARY PACKAGING SMI is the largest international manufacturer, by number of units delivered every year, of automatic packers for the end-ofline secondary packaging running at the maximum output rate of 450 packs/minute (according to the machine model and to the container/pack features); all of the machine models are designed in accordance with the latest principles of modularity, ergonomics, flexibility and expandibility and allow to pack in multiple packaging solutions a wide range of containers: (MotorNet System®) and is composed of: • plastic and glass bottles • jars • cans • cardboard...

PACKERS WITH IN-LINE INFEED » Pick & place case packers (ACP series) • packaging in American cardboard cases (RSC cases) • production speed up to 25 packs/minute » Packers in multipack cardboard (MP and TPP series) • overlapping cardboard sleeves (“over the top” or “neck through”) or cardboard top pad • production speed up to 300 packs/minute » Combined packers (LCM, CM and CM R series) • packaging in film only; cardboard pad+film; tray only and wrap-around cases • production speed up to 80 packs/minute PACKERS WITH 90° INFEED » Shrink wrappers (ASW series) • packaging in film only, cardboard...