The Smart Packaging Hub initiative was born at the beginning of 2021 from the idea of some companies which, after examining the market situation and the difficulties caused by the state of health emergency, have drawn new strength and new business opportunities from it. The Hub’s companies have transformed the impossibility of physically meeting at sector trade fairs and the difficulty of moving nationally and internationally into a new opportunity for meeting and discussion by finding themselves into the virtual space of the Smart Packaging Hub. Now that emergency has passed, Smart Packaging Hub has established itself as the reference portal for information and in-depth analysis for the entire packaging and new technologies production chain.
About Smart Packaging Hub
Smart Packaging Hub is, essentially, a benchmark for all packaging players in the food and beverage sector. It is a meeting place where the end users of automated packaging machines or lines can interact with manufacturers to find answers to their most complex questions: relating to production efficiency, configuration flexibility, product safety and quality, traceability, ROI calculation, eco-sustainability and energy saving.
Actually, the Hub is a virtual space, where discovering concrete solutions to face the digitalisation changes and fully embrace technological innovation without having to give up the flexibility and competitiveness that market demands.
The Smart Packaging Hub is an overview on Smart Packaging world: here converges the whole food & beverage packaging supply chain – from primary to tertiary industry – which today is addressing the new horizons of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things, establishing that plants must consist of smarter and smarter machines for an hyperconnected and fully responsive system.
Finally, the Hub is a virtual meeting corner, a platform where talking about specific innovative food & beverage projects with skilled experts, and where joining an exclusive calendar of technological events.
Smart Packaging Hub – state the companies that created it – might be compared to a new search engine of the food & beverage packaging.
How the Smart Packaging Hub initiative came about
The Smart Packaging Hub initiative was the brainchild of a few sector companies which, after examining the market situation and emerging difficulties, drew new strength and business opportunities from that.
The Hub’s companies have transformed the impossibility of physically meeting at sector trade fairs and the difficulty of moving nationally and internationally into a new opportunity for meeting and discussion by finding themselves into the virtual space of the Smart Packaging Hub.
Therefore, the Smart Packaging Hub idea was born to send a strong message of support and collaboration to market players and to put all available technological expertise at the service of end users in the food & beverage industry.
Smart Packaging Hub: the Companies
Currently, the Hub’s companies are: Baumer, Clevertech, Irplast and Tosa. This virtual meeting platform expresses force, excellence in automated and digital technologies for food and beverage packaging, not only in terms of market volumes, export values and workforce employed, but also in terms of investments in research, development and training activities.
| The Smart Packaging Hub platform in figures |
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| 400 milion euro annual turnover |
| 1,200 machines delivered per year |
| 2,000 employees |
| 90% average annual export |
| 5.4% of annual turnover invested in R&D activities |
| 2.1% of annual turnover invested in training initiatives |
The highlights Smart Packaging Hub
In Smart Packaging Hub visitors can focus on ideas and solutions that exceed the logic of “a turnkey plant from a single supplier”. They find innovative technologies made available by different companies that pool their core business strengths and expertise in some of the most important applicative niches of the food & beverage packaging chain.
Who enter the Smart Packaging Hub:
– gains access to a single, highly flexible, technological, innovation space, without having to come the compromise of a ‘single supplier’ or a ‘standard line’;
– finds the best of the expertise of the hub companies for the development of specific automated solutions to satisfy specific needs in the food and beverage packaging supply chain, achieving maximum flexibility in engineering and machine configuration;
– benefits from a platform where it is possible to interact with some of the best experts in the engineering and construction of automated machines, sharing their specific expertise and competences.
The Smart Packaging Hub is a meeting point par excellence, where the end user can also benefit from a “Made in Italy” technological connotation. A connotation that is expressed above all in the maximum flexibility of customization of automated systems. In the Hub, in fact, visitors also discover how to best adapt their systems to every future need: in terms of components on the machine, but also programming, diagnostics and machine operation.
First this connotation means the utmost flexibility in the customization of automated packaging plants. In the Hub visitors discover how to adapt their machines at best to each future requirement, in terms of components on machine board, as well as machine programming, diagnostics and operations.
End-users find in Smart Packaging Hub the highest empathy of best specialized companies that are able to read and understand their key business needs.
Smart Packaging Hub: a support for technological innovation and digitalization
Triple is the support offered in the virtual platform of Smart Packaging Hub. The platform can help food & beverage industry’s end users: supporting them in technological innovation initiatives, digitalisation journeys, adoption of Industry 4.0 guidelines and in their global localisation proposals.
The Smart Packaging Hub platform provides a fertile environment for technological innovation, also thanks to the yearly investments in R&D by member companies: outstanding innovation is made at the highest level, tailored to the needs of each manufacturer, per task or line processing, with maximum time and cost optimisation.
Into the Smart Packaging Hub, you will find an approach that is fully oriented towards digitalisation and Industry 4.0. In fact, even in the packaging sector, Industry 4.0 and digital trends are no longer negligible aspects for users and manufacturers of automated food and beverage packaging systems.
In the Hub platform you can find the best support for process virtualization. This is also achieved by virtual models (digital twin) of machines.
You can find advanced robotics solutions, hyper-connectivity and hyper-sensor strategies of machines or entire lines, as utmost expression of
IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things). At last, you can discover how any AI (Artificial Intelligence) algorithms or Analytics software can be used to collect, to process and to manage at best the huge volume of data generated by machines, optimizing energy and manufacturing performances of processes or releasing new service typologies, and then new business models, on the market.
Finally, joining Smart Packaging Hub, the end-users find the best service offer for global after-sale service, delivered through skilled and multilingual personnel, in every geographical area of the world.