The company based in Pianezza, near Turin (Italy) was in financial difficulties.Renamed Cartesio, it will now centralize all activities related to cartoning and case packing.Specialized in flexible packaging solutions, and in particular flowpack machines, the Italian Cavanna announces the acquisition of its compatriot Maspe.The latter, which is based in Pianezza, near Turin (Italy), manufactures wrap-around case packing machines, side case packers, case and lid formers.The company, which was founded 35 years ago, employs 27 people for a turnover of 6 million euros.It claims 450 lines installed in 15 countries.Despite a good reputation in the confectionery sector, Maspe was about to cease its activity due to economic difficulties consequent to the pandemic.The takeover was made through Cartesio Packaging, a newly created company 100% owned by the Cavanna Group.As a reminder, Cartesio designates the cardboard packaging solutions that Cavanna has been developing since 2005. The amount of the purchase has not been disclosed.Cavanna is committed to keeping all of the employees.Its intention is now to make Maspe its cardboard mechanization division by bringing together all its activities related to this segment, in particular robotic solutions for handling and boxing products, but also forming and closing cardboard boxes and packaging. packing wrap.All the activities in this area developed by the factories of the group will be transferred to Pianezza.“We could not allow the company to cease its activities, at the risk of putting international and Italian customers, who are often our own customers, in difficulty.We felt responsible to them and to the workers of the company, preserving employment, business continuity and technical support to existing factories.With the customers themselves, we have endeavored to find the optimal conditions to save and restart the company,” says Riccardo Cavanna, president of the eponymous group, in charge of strategy.The Pianezza site joins the group's other sites: Prato Sesia and Mappano in Italy, Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Duluth (United States), with a total workforce which thus increases to 340 employees.Cavanna achieves a turnover of 80 million euros, 90% of which is exported.Old paper, ordinary sorts - Average France-Export - 1.05 Corrugated recovered (ex A5)Producer price index in industrial production sold in France − CPF 23.13 − Hollow glassOur journalists select for you the essential articles of your sector.Your registration request has been taken into account.Your email is processed by our press title which, depending on the title, belongs to one of the following companies... Read moreYour email is processed by our press title which, depending on the title, belongs to one of the following companies: Groupe Moniteur Nanterre B 403 080 823, IPD Nanterre 490 727 633, Groupe Industrie Service Info (GISI) Nanterre 442 233 417. This company or any company of the Infopro Digital Group may use it to offer you, on their behalf or that of their clients, products and/or services useful for your professional activities.To exercise your rights, to oppose them or to find out more: Personal data charter.Glass essentials in packagingFundamentals and StrategyMaster the techniques of using glassMaterials in contact and food safety, the essential rulesStrengthen the customer/supplier relationship through specificationsWOMEN IN INDUSTRY TROPHIES - #industriELLES22How to boost your sales performance with a cross-channel approach?Meeting with the editorial staff of the Usine NouvelleNEW PLANT SERVICESFind products and suppliersFind the industrial companies that are recruiting talentIndustrialization Methods Technician (M/F)Access all tenders and detect your business opportunitiesMoving benefitsL'USINENOUVELLE.com, leader in professional B2B information, offers you to follow the economic and industrial news of the automotive and new mobility, aeronautics and space, agri-food, energy and sustainable development, health, cosmetics and luxury, chemistry, transport, construction, defence, plastics, metallurgy, raw materials and materials, consumer goods, electronics, IT, telecoms, cybersecurity, digital and new technologies.