100th anniversary is future-focused with e-commerce sector wrapping innovation

Coesia company Acma has been marking its centenary with the forward-looking introduction of its E-SWL sleeve-wrapper for e-commerce, with data control and bag-sizing for each product.

Founded at the end of July 1924 as the Anonima Costruzioni  Macchine Automatiche, Bologna-based Acma has been a key component in the area’s ‘Packaging Valley’, and continues as a hotbed of talent and innovation. One of the most recent examples of that innovation is the E-SWL, launched earlier this year, marking Acma’s debut in e-commerce automation.

Acma says its horizontal sizing and wrapping system for shipping bags offers a sustainable, flexible, and easy-to-use system for this sector, which has grown exponentially in recent years. The E-SWL creates customised bags based on the product dimensions and with the customer's desired print. Compared to standard solutions on the market, says Acma, it uses less packaging, thus emphasising sustainability. The data management and pack-by-pack, individualised labelling is equally important.

Alongside the bag size customisation and in-line printing, Acma highlights the synchronisation between the pace of product-loading and packing, on a no-product-no-bag basis. At the same time, says the company, the software underpinning the system ensures “zero errors in shipping data”. 

Chief executive Daniele Ponzinibbi underlines the importance of the anniversary. “It’s not only an opportunity to reflect on our journey from a small artisan business to a company that is part of an international industrial group, but it also represents a moment to look at the Acma of the future, [and] which cutting-edge technologies will drive through continuous experimentation in R&D.” 

Also new to the company is Acma Next, a recently-inaugurated research & development laboratory and ‘incubator of ideas’. 

Over the years, Acma has been a part of Emhart Industries, Barry-Wehmiller and in 1986 joined the group that would later become Coesia. 

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