PFM Group is an Italian multinational company in the packaging and weighing machinery industry,[2] producing Flow Wrap and Form Fill Seal machines, automatic packaging lines and Multihead weighers employed in the food and non-food industries.
Arrangement of the company
PFM Group is made up of nine companies: the Italian parent company, PFM Packaging Machinery, which works alongside the UK PFM LTD, North American PFM Corporation, and German PFM Germany companies. BG Pack SPA, which is based in Bergamo, specialising in the manufacture of special packaging machines for recloseable packs. MBP, based in Mantua, specialise in the production of multi-head weighers and vertical packaging machines thereby completing the range offered by PFM. Last in order of acquisition is SPS Italiana Pack Systems, which has come back into the hands of those who founded the company after exchanging ownership a number of times; this company from Novara manufacture automatic handling and packaging machines for baked goods and biscuits, chocolate bars and wafers. In 2006 PFmeccanica was founded to form a new production centre for mechanical components.[3] In November 2007 PFM Russia was founded, the new commercial and logistic base for the Eastern European markets.