SMI S.p.A.

SMI is one of the world’s largest producers of bottling plants and packaging machines able to meet production requirements up to 36,800 bottles/hour. These solutions are used in countless sectors: food, beverages, household cleaning, personal hygiene, chemical and pharmaceutical products and are suitable for an extremely wide target group: from middle-sized bottlers to multinational corporations such as Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, Unilever, AB-Inbev and many more.
All machines are produced in Italy in the town of San Giovanni Bianco, not far away from Bergamo; this means that SMI product range boasts the mark “Made and designed in Italy”.

90 % 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 boasts over 30-year of experience in the bottling and packaging industry; the combination of know-how acquired over the years and the constant will to innovate and offer cutting-edge solutions has allowed the company to create products notable for their advanced technology. As a consequence, the solutions provided by SMI are 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 the customer and SMI engineers; subsequently, the processing of a project feasibility study and a customized proposal defining all the details of supply take place. Thanks to this approach, SMI can create turnkey solutions capable of fully meeting the customer’s expectations.

While designing machines and plants, SMI engineers commit themselves to matching customers’ needs through innovative solutions in terms of manufacturing process efficiency, automation of operations, cost reduction and energy saving.

All these factors together with constant investment in R & D have enabled SMI to become a global player in the packaging industry and to provide flexible, efficient and customized solutions, strongly oriented to innovation and with a low environmental impact.

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