Currently, Amotek’s leadership team has two professionals who have been with the company for many years: Massimo Zanotti, Director of Technology, and Michele Mike Solazzo, Director of Sales & Service. A short interview has been conducted with them to give a closer view of the company and their ongoing projects.
Can you please tell us more about Amotek’s behind the scenes?
Massimo Zanotti: Yes, sure, it is a pleasure for me to introduce our team. Since the beginning, Amotek employees have always been the real engine of the company itself. We can boast of committed, experienced individuals as well as young and dynamic people who contribute every day to answer our partners’ needs by finding tailored packaging solutions. Thanks to this, in our 44 years of history, we have consistently been able to deliver well-performing and reliable machinery to the tissue industry.
“Amotek, yes we are!”
What is the recipe for Amotek’s success?
Michele Mike Solazzo: We have listened to our customers’ feedback and worked on common projects with our business partners to ensure that we are always ahead of the game in packaging solutions. We continue investing in R&D and Human Resources to offer faster and more energy efficient machines based on the requests and expectations of the main market players for the years to come.
Which technological innovations have been adopted on Amotek’s machines against Covid-19?
Massimo Zanotti: The process of digitalization on all of our packaging solutions has accelerated during the spread of Covid-19. This allowed us to manage the start-up and commissioning of machines remotely, opening new possibilities that our partners have greatly appreciated. All of Amotek’s machines have been then equipped with the latest IT and digital technologies that make the human machine interaction experience as easy as using a common smartphone.
How are you meeting the increasing demand for sustainability?
Massimo Zanotti: Speaking of recent years, thanks to fruitful collaborations with tissue converters and bag manufacturers, we have developed new sealing systems that allow our machines to seal paper and biomaterial bags, ensuring high performance and manufacturing quality packages.
What are your latest solutions for the packaging of tissue products?
Massimo Zanotti: These innovations have been applied to our latest machine for toilet rolls: the PB192 Series with its fast and easy size changeover, its flexibility in using different packaging materials, and its use of IoT for proactive and immediate maintenance and service.
PB192 packaging execution
The ability to pack a range of products is one of the key features of our IS220 Series, making it the perfect packaging solution for interfolded tissue as well as multipack nonwovens products. This bagger reflects perfectly the company philosophy in terms of versatility and flexibility, it grants in fact many format and presentation range, modular infeed concept and the possibility to execute single and multiple layer configurations. This machine is currently very appreciated for its reliability as based its technological concept on the top seller Amotek bagger.
IS220 packaging execution
Would you like to add something regarding Amotek attendance to the coming shows?
Michele Mike Solazzo: Due to the pandemic, we have been waiting a long time to attend shows and have the opportunity to meet with our partners. During this period, Amotek never stopped thinking forward and worked hard behind the scenes to develop new ideas. I’m really glad to have the possibility to extend an invitation to everyone who wants to come and finally meet our team at the MIAC show in Lucca as well as at INDEX show in Geneva and learn more about Amotek’s tissue packaging solutions. We look forward to welcoming you at our stands!
