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The packaging industry in France

admin on November 23, 2018

The packaging industry is very large: it includes filling, dosing, packaging, closing and closing machines, etc. These are services requested by all sectors of activity, even if the main demands come from the agri-food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

It is therefore a successful and growing market. Proof of this is that it represents approximately $35 billion worldwide and is expected to double in the next 10 years.

Moreover France is not to be outdone, since it ranks 7th on the world market for packaging machines.

However, in order for the French market to remain efficient, there are certain areas of reflection to be considered:

First of all, R&D

The first is R&D. Indeed, the technological revolution in machinery has already taken place, so it is difficult to innovate considerably. The main areas of development of the packaging industry are now focused on productivity and packaging materials. But these are requests made by customers and cannot be anticipated.

Then, exportation

The second is the one related to exportation, especially with the problem of setting up an after-sales service. It is more complicated to provide machine maintenance services, where in lot of cases, the language barrier meets the geographical distance barrier.

Marketing and communication

Finally, there are also questions related to marketing and communication. The low renewal rate for the packaging equipment limits the market growth. And where promotional marketing is developed, strategic marketing is not really present and there is no real competitive intelligence.

To conclude, the regulatory and eco-design aspects are also increasingly present in all sectors combined, and are also relevant to the packaging market. Thus having ISO 9001 certification is not a mandatory prerequisite for customers, but the majority of companies of the packaging sector work by applying these rules.

The main figures are:

-France has 284 establishments in the packaging and packaging machine manufacturing sector, including 33 in Ile-de-France.

-A total turnover of the French packaging sector of €912 million in the manufacture of packaging, packaging and weighing equipment, 53% of which will be exported in 2012.

– The global market volume is $35 billion for packaging and packaging machines, a figure that is expected to double in the next 10 years.

Thus the French packaging industry is a market which, although subject to many possible improvements, is full of promise and opportunities for the coming years.

We select a mechanical engineer who can speak French and English

admin on August 8, 2018

We are recruiting a mechanical enginneer - Barcelona Export

We select an engineer who can speak English and French for the design office of one of our industrial companies, located in Maresme. He/she will be a project manager and will manage national and export projects.

We select a mechanical engineer:

This mechanical engineer must be fluent in English and French, and it would be desirable for him/her to speak Italian. We need you to master the computer tools to design 3D parts such as Solidworks and/or Autocad. We will appreciate the fact that you have extensive commercial experience to be able to work as a project manager.

He will be integrated into a small, highly cohesive and proactive team.

Case of success: The internationalization of GMS Sistemas

admin on June 6, 2018

Case of success: The internationalisation of GMS Sistemas

GMS Sistemas: The company

GMS Sistemas is a Catalan company devoted to the making of feeding and positioning systems, such as vibrating feeders or robotic arms, for small pieces. It is also part of the corporate group PMZ Comatrans. At this point, they have accumulated experience and Know-how in the course of 25 years. GMS targets mainly the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and, not to mention, packaging sector.

The offered solutions

– Particularly, the SmartFeeder (a robotic arm for a flexible solution)
– Vibrating feeder for caps, valves, dosing pumps, car wheels,…
– Mechanic feeder for coffee capsules, Alimentador mecánica para cápsulas de café, syringes
– Centrifugal feeder for plastic crown caps
– Slat elevator for cosmetic products, screws, spherical plain bearings,
– Positioners for bottles, pharmaceutical tubes and containers

Participation at Hispack as international stepping stone

Our client GMS Sistemas started working with us in October 2017. Besides benefitting of our service for prospecting for France, they informed us about their participation at Hispack 2018 in the course of the year. They not only asked us for an agenda with international meetings but also for our accompaniment during the fair. Therefore, we organized their commercial documentations and created the contact mails and invitations for the fair. Hence we picked 8 different countries for the contact search, which were: UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. These contacts included distributors, integrators, manufacturers for special machinery. Furthermore, we also looked for final clients of the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and packaging industry as well as coffee capsules.

With reference to the topic “Natural Evolution”, the corporate group PMZ presented itself at the fair Hispack with a completely renewed image, showing the whole range of qualitative solutions for the fields of automation and positioning of pieces.

If you would like to find out more about the products of GMS Sistemas and PMZ Comatrans, feel free to watch this interview. It was filmed for the magazine Infopack with Xavier Sanchez, the group’s director, during the fair Hispack.