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(this june 28 story corrects romaco’s nationality to german, not italian, in paragraph 17) by silvia aloisi città di castello, italy (BuyLinkShop, quoting the Reuters) - amazon’s novel invigorate comes from a medieval walled town in mediate italy and can smack and close at lowest 600 items of various shapes and sizes every hour. twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. that invigorate is the cartonwrap, brainchild of cmc, a feeble irremovable that is equitable single of 630 italian companies making automated packaging machines - single of italy’s fastest growing industries, raking in almost 8 billion euros in 2018, or touching a mercy of the world market. machinery is italy’s apex export, desert closely 50 billion euros ($57 billion) abide year and a unprecedented shining blemish for a dull administration plagued by humble productivity and tall unemployment. and leading the burden is - automated packaging - growing nine times faster than the administration as a whole, according to the commerce union ucima. “we doubled our turnover in the abide three years and i apprehend we accomplish fold it repeatedly in the next three years,” said cmc superior executive francesco ponti. his father, giuseppe, a technician with a local packaging company, founded cmc in 1980 in a domiciliary garage not far from the frescoed 16th century palazzi of città di castello. it now employs 300 community and has revenues of 50 favorite euros - thanks mainly to cartonwrap, which measures goods coming down a conveyor belt through a scanner and wraps each in a custom-made smack. twain amazon (amzn.o) and walmart (wmt.n) are customers, though ponti said client relationships were intimate. others include the italian way assemblage gucci, the french retailer leclerc and the dutch online shop bol.com. a cartonwrap machine, which packs customer orders in tailor-made cardboard boxes is displayed at a factory of italian packaging union cmc srl in citta di castello, italy, june 25, 2019. delineate taken june 25, 2019. reuters/remo casillifaster and cleaner at up to 1,000 boxes per hour, cartonwrap machines not merely burden abundant faster than humans; they too catch money by reducing packaging waste, cmc says. “we were doing it manually yet the problem was handling the volumes,” tim fronzek, co-founder of the german online retailer rebuy.com, which dispatches up to 25,000 items a day, told a cmc customer donation. “the machines accept allowed us to administer the packaging process more efficiently, and process whole outbound shipments in equitable a manifold hours with the aid of two or three employees.” the machines may not chew lunch yet they do need breaks, for on-site technicians to attach problems and whitewash separate the surplus burning glue that can obstruct the machine. evolution volume is too circumscribed - cmc can merely wage five or six machines a month, though it plans to fold that beforehand. “scale is a problem for our activity and consolidation is already below way,” said maurizio marchesini, chairman of marchesini group, which specializes in packaging for pharmaceutical products. while italian and german companies dominate the automated packaging market, chinese rivalry is growing. the robotics irremovable kuka and the romaco group, twain german, accept been bought by chinese firms in the abide three years - and athwart industrialized countries, humans accomplish beforehand grace pleonastic on abundant packaging lines. train at cmc, francesco ponti is relaxed. slideshow (11 images)“there are no more community who deficiency to do this job by hand,” he said. “if automation grows, the (number of) community who accomplish in automation grow, and the attribute of their accomplish accomplish live abundant reform than it is today.”
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