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Opening photo: A flexographic printing machine produced by Uteco.
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teco Converting Spa is a global leader in the design and manufacture of flexographic, rotogravure and high-tech machines with special configurations (laminating, roto-offset and digital machines, etc.), sometimes in co-partnership, while constantly focusing on research and innovation. The company’s headquarters are located in Colognola ai Colli (Verona, Italy) and they include three plants covering an area of over 65,000 m2. Since its establishment in 1985, Uteco’s core business has been the production of printing machines for flexible packaging (ref. opening photo).
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This industrial sector has evolved rapidly starting from the geared rotary machines popular on the market over thirty years ago, and the development of ever more efficient systems has become the mission of Uteco as well as the key to its global success. “The machines we produce are now 80% automated,” says Diego Taioli, Uteco’s Lean Project Team Leader and Assembly Manager (Fig. 1). “Our aim is supplying our customers with an easy to use and manage product in compliance with the objectives of Industry 4.0, whose principles are being gradually implemented in our plant. In turn, we