ATLANTA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

In 2002, packaging specialist Angelo Forni founded Atlanta Packaging in Bologna, Italy. He focused on packaging machines specifically for cartons. Later, he expanded to include film wrapping machines (shrink and tray packers) for the beverage and food industry. Two years later, he established Atlanta Stretch in Rimini, and since 2005, both companies have formed the Atlanta Group. Over 4,000 machines have been installed worldwide, many of them in Germany. Since 2007, Atlanta-Deutschland GmbH has been located near Stuttgart, with the industry-recognized expert Giovanni Berardi as managing director, who has been leading the company for years and is also a co-owner of the Atlanta Group. The Atlanta Group (60 employees, revenue planning for 2015: > 20 million €) manufactures machines in Bologna and Rimini. There are sales and service branches in Spain, France, England, Australia, Sweden, and Germany. Atlanta Stretch in Rimini produces semi-automatic and fully automatic pallet wrapping machines. The semi-automatics (types “Mytho”, “Syntesi”, and “Sfera”) are mostly installed in the lower performance range. For the small and medium range up to 50 pallets/hour, there is the fully automatic “Mytho-A” (turntable machine), alternatively the arm machine “Revolution” for up to 100 pallets/hour, as well as the ring wrapper “Omega” for the high performance range up to 150 pallets/hour. All machines are characterized by a very compact design and low mechanical assembly effort. The ring wrapping machine “Omega” does not have a wear-prone slip ring system to control the pre-stretch system, unlike all other ring wrappers on the market. This patented technology allows, among other things, the use of jumbo rolls (film change after, for example, 3 hours instead of after 50 minutes) as well as flexible ring sizes (pallet size up to 1,600x1,600mm). Atlanta Packaging produces user-friendly and robust wrap-around machines of the “Giotto” types in Bologna, covering the entire performance spectrum. The film wrapping machine “Ecofard” can be used either with shrink film, with film and flat carton, or with film and carton tray. The performance range of the machine types ranges from 25 to 70 cycles/min. Depending on the application and requirements, the universal machine “COMBI” can be used to process film, carton, or tray. Atlanta systems have already been installed in Russia, Asia, Australia, the USA, South America, and all European countries. In the meantime, these machines are also in use by all major manufacturers of beverages, dairy products, and food.