The Marchesini Group acquired Schmucker, a company from Gorizia specialized in building stickpack packaging machinery for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic markets.
Schmucker’s success began in 1977 in a small workshop on the border between Italy and Slo-venia, where the two Schmucker brothers set up a small business to design systems for the food industry. Over the next couple of years, they built single-line and multiple-line packaging machines for sticks filled with liquid, powder, granular, cream and gel products. The growing demand of multinational enterprises, alongside experiments on cutting-edge prototypes, convinced the company to diversify the reference markets, which boosted its growth impressively. Today, Schmucker employs 80 people and its turnover in 2017 was $12 million (10 million Euro), with a share of 80 percent in exports.
Marchesini’s acquisition of Schmucker came after that of Dumek, a company specialized in designing processing machines for cosmetics, of Vibrotech, working in the field of infeed and positioning systems for automated industrial processes and of SEA Vision, a manufacturer of inspection systems used in the pharmaceutical anti-counterfeit sector. Similar to the previous transactions, Schmucker is also a part of the group’s strategy of strong expansion, which is also occurring on the internal lines too, with the new beauty division and the new rapid prototyping department, which was inaugurated on May 25.
