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IMA Coffee and Coind sustainability as a keyword
IMA Coffee high-speed aluminium capsule filler serves Coind’s sustainable needs.
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ith a more than consolidated partnership lasting 50 years, IMA and Coind fully embody the meeting of two top representatives in the Emilian Food and Packaging Valley. Both founded in 1961, the two Bolognese companies share views and objectives such as reliability, high quality and high technology for the best customer satisfaction, sustainability and social commitment. The alliance dates back to the late sixties with the supply of the first IMA equipment for packaging tea in filter bags, later boosted by the supply of coffee packaging solutions from 2005 on. Coind is a leading Italian industrial group based just outside Bologna, in Emilia Romagna, with a total annual turnover of 78 million euro (up 10.5% on 2019) and more than 230 employees. The coffee division was founded in 1961, and is today one of Italy’s largest roasteries with over 7,000 tons of raw coffee beans roasted to serve seven million Italian families every year. When
Coind carried out an important production upgrade involving complete packaging lines for Nespresso® and Dolce Gusto® compatible capsules, including solutions from coffee filling to final product palletization, it chose IMA Coffee. The latest IMA Coffee machine installed in the Coind plant is a 595 for aluminium capsules. Capable of processing up to 450 capsules per minute, this high-speed solution will theoretically handle 120 to 130 million capsules per year. Its ergonomic cantilever design ensures great accessibility for maintenance, service and easy cleaning thanks to the pull-out operating system, significantly reducing line downtimes. Accurate product dosing is made possible thanks to precise and extremely gentle product handling to suit a wide range of products to be filled. Excellent product quality is guaranteed by an on-line weighing system for each filled capsule, with data feedback to automatically adjust the dosing unit, and by vision systems for lid positioning. In this interview, Luca Cioffi, President & CEO, and Valentina Pareschi, E-commerce & Communication manager, tell about the partnership between Coind and IMA.
➣ What is Coind’s vision of market trends, with regard to capsule and carton types and in terms of materials? Sustainability has influenced the coffee capsule market and the materials used for their packaging. As for the capsules, we are introducing two different responses to the “no plastic” trend: compostable, 100% recyclable capsules that can be disposed of in organic waste, and aluminium capsules, which we expect to be disposed of soon in dedicated collection centres. There are some new introductions also with regard to formats: more and more brands, and retail distribution players too, are oriented towards maxi-formats of 30, 40 or 50 capsules, designed both for consumer convenienceas well as for lower consumption of packaging. As a company, we have responded to these market demands by investing into production lines capable of
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