Robopac, together with OCME,
is the main brand of Aetna Group.

Robopac offers a wide range of solutions and services for the end-of-line packaging industry: from semi automatic wrapping machines to automatic machines, shrinkwrappers and case packers.

A versatile and diversified offer that creates an important added value through seemless integration of products from each business unit within AetnaGroup.

OVERVIEW

Robopac, with its headquarter in Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna), in the heart of the Italian Packaging Valley.

Robopac has always valued the territory as a primary resource to invest in, in order to develop the most daring innovation of Made in Italy in the packaging and palletizing industry; a value that is also supported by the location of Robopac business units along the main street of Emilia-Romagna: the Via Emilia.

This is the starting point for the research and development of advanced systems, according to a philosophy of internationalization
that characterizes the global vision of the group: Robopac, in fact, is able to offer the quality and added value of the know-how of the parent company on the most important international markets and it does so with numerous offices and production centers in every corner of the World where it creates high-performance solutions tailor-made on the needs of the market and the customer, with extreme attention to the issues of circular economy.

These are the main features of a last generation company such as Robopac, which is oriented to the dynamics of Industry and Company 4.0, where digitization and automation of processes become key elements to address the needs of the packaging world in an increasingly green oriented way.

business
units

ROBOPAC MACHINERY
ROBOPAC MACHINERY
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ROBOPAC SYSTEMS
ROBOPAC SYSTEMS
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ROBOPAC PACKERS
ROBOPAC PACKERS
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SOTEMAPACK
SOTEMAPACK
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ROBOPAC BRASIL
ROBOPAC BRASIL
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TOPTIER
TOPTIER
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BUSINESS
HIGHLIGHTS

+ 400 MLN SALES REVENUES
10 PRODUCTION PLANT
+ 100 PATENTS
+2000 PEOPLE
24/7 SERVICE
+ 200.000 MACHINE INSTALLED BASE
12 COMMERCIAL SUBSIDIARIES
>7% OF REVENUES INVESTED IN R&D
+ 280 FIELD ENGENEERS

our
history

1935
The history of the group begins with the strong entrepreneurial imprinting of Lanfranco Aureli, father of the current President of Aetna Group Alfredo Aureli. During these years, in Villa Verucchio, Lanfranco Aureli, together with three other partners, former workers and almost all foundrymen who had lost their jobs, founded SCM-Società Costruzioni Macchine. The small Rimini-based company dedicated to the production of ploughs and rolling shutters is actually the first example of a great business vision, from which Alfredo will learn and build Aetna Group.
1960
Alfredo Aureli joins SCM, implementing winning development strategies for the company by working on internationalization and strategic acquisitions, principles that will then be the basis for the realization of the new challenge of Aetna Group.
1980
During these years, Alfredo Aureli decided to diversify and widen the SCM Group's business sphere and, starting from an innovative idea but, above all, from the new market needs, he founded a new company, ROBOPAC, that operates in the packaging industry. Everything started with a revolutionary battery-powered robot that could automatically turn around pallets of any size and cover the load with stretch film. With foresight and determination that still mark him, Alfredo Aureli patented his "robot" worldwide and, on the basis of the mobile machine, he developed a fully automatic variant for packaging at the end of the production line. Soon, Robopac became the world leader in the segment of semi-automatic machines for the application of stretch film for the stabilization of palletized loads, developing over time a wide range of technologies.
1987
ROBOPAC SISTEMI was born, starting the production of systems and automatic machines for the stabilization of palletized loads with stretch film. The company is characterized by its great ability to design tailor-made solutions with high technological content. The union of Robopac and Robopac Sistemi gave rise to Aetna Group.
1989
The Aetna Group's proposals have been expanded with the entry into the group of DIMAC, the company based in Bologna specialized in the production of shrink wrapping machines. DIMAC has succeeded in imposing itself worldwide through its technological leadership and carries out its activities in various product industries: bottling, canning, food, pet food. The study of the needs of the markets of reference, conducted through the analysis of the demands and observations of customers has been crucial. In this context, the political and marketing choices have directed the company on very different paths from those of large-scale mass production. DIMAC in fact builds and implements "tailored" projects , able to respond to the most diverse packaging problems.
1991                                 
In this year, the need to be closer and closer to customers and to serve them leads to the establishment of the first foreign branches of Aetna Group: Aetna U.K. and Aetna France. The chosen approach is to create a real staff, the Aetna Group branches can, in fact, count on all the fundamental roles to best serve consolidated customers and help those who appear for the first time in the portfolio of the Group in the choice of a product.
2000-2001
The Internationalization and the creation of a capillary network of service points and branches continues: Aetna Deutschland and Aetna USA are born in these years, officially marking the presence of the group overseas. Valentina and Enrico Aureli, Alfredo Aureli's children, join the management of the company. After an international experience, in 2005 they will become CEOs.
2009                                               
The strengthening of the Group's branches continues with the inauguration of the Moscow branch. The Russian market is also served by Aetna Russia.
2010
This is the year that marks the entry of Prasmatic into Aetna Group: overlap shrink wrapping machines, wrap around case packers, tray packers and combined lines, mainly dedicated to the food industry. A further step towards the consolidation of a product portfolio that is increasingly incisive in terms of the offer breadth, technological quality and tailor-made solutions.
2012                                   
The Group becomes global with bases all over the world, in fact in this year Aetna China was founded to serve Asia and to propose solutions developed specifically for production in China.
2015
Internationalization and control of the main world markets, production local for local and completion of the product range, a technical assistance service ever closer to the customer. Aetna Group continues its growth by adding another important piece, which allows to increase its presence in the Brazilian market: the acquisition of the Brazilian companies IMSB and Rotac, based in Bento Gonçalves, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. IMSB and Rotac - very well known brands in Brazil - are specialized in the design, production and assembly of machines and low speed solutions for packaging dedicated to some areas of the Brazilian market. They have more than 120 employees and develop a turnover of 25 million reals. 2015 sees also the birth of Aetna Iberica, a strategic operation for improving synergies and internationalization, aimed at improving the speed of information exchange between customers and the company and strengthening the Group's competitive capacity. In the same year TopTier joined the Group. It is a company based in Portland (Oregon - USA), at the forefront of palletizing and simultaneous wrapping technology with stretch film.
2017
In order to be more and more competitive and efficient on markets all over the world, Aetna Group signs an agreement with OCME, which effectively becomes part of the group, bringing important know-how in terms of design and production of automatic filling, secondary packaging, palletizing and complete systems machines. Established in 1954 in Parma, OCME marks an important step in the evolution of Aetna Group, marking the development of a business characterized by a strong internationalization, but which looks to the territory as a resource to draw from for a continuously growing business. In 2019 OCME will become fully part of Aetna Group with its 100% acquisition.
2018
The following year, 2018, it was the turn of Sotemapack, a company from Anzola dell'Emilia whose share capital was acquired by Aetna Group to further strengthen its position as a player in the Bologna packaging valley worldwide.
2020
One Global Company: in almost 40 years of history, Aetna Group confirms itself as a successful reality, present all over the world in a capillary way with 15 branches and 9 production plants that guarantee the quality and the values of the parent company, allowing a 24/7 assistance service and a tailor-made design on the needs of the customer and of the reference market. The history of Aetna Group is therefore a constantly evolving path, which looks to the future with renewed prospects for growth and innovation, projecting itself more and more into the world of Industry and Enterprise 4.0, sustainability and Green Economy with enabling technologies related to the collection and efficient processing of big data, from cloud/industrial edge to artificial intelligence applied to predictive diagnostics and machine learning.

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branches

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Europe

AETNA GROUP DEUTSCHLAND

Holderäckerstrasse 17
70499 Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
Germany

Tel: +49 7118067090 
Fax: +49 71180670940
Mail: [email protected]

AETNA GROUP    FRANCE

4, avenue de l’Europe
69150 Décines
France

Tel: +33 472145401
Fax: + 33 47214 5419
Mail: [email protected]

AETNA GROUP    IBERICA

P.I. Portal Mediterráneo,
C/ Dauradors 23
12500 Vinaròs, Castellón
Spain
Tel: +34 964860901
Fax: +34 964860703
Mail: [email protected]

AETNA GROUP           UK

Packaging Heights Units 7/8
Highfield Parc - Road Oakley
Bedford MK43 7TA
UK

Tel: +44 1234825050
Fax: +44 1234827070
Mail: [email protected]

AETNA GROUP VOSTOK

Otradnaya str. 2B
129329 Moscow
Russia


Tel: +7 4956443355
Fax: +7 4956443356
Mail: [email protected] 

AMERICA

ROBOPAC          BRASIL

Rua Agnese Morbini,
380 Bairro Pomarosa
95.700-404 Bento Goncalves/RS
Brasil

Tel.: +55 5434557200
Fax: +55 5434557201
Mail: [email protected]

ROBOPAC                     USA

2150 Boggs Road Building 200
Suite 200 Duluth
GEORGIA 30096


Tel: +1 6784737896
Fax: +1 6784731025
Mail: [email protected]

ASIA & AFRICA

ROBOPAC          CHINA

Building 2, No. 877, Jinliu Rd. Jinshan Industrial Area,
Shanghai, 201506       
China

Tel: +86 02162665966
Mail: [email protected]

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