PCMC to Inaugurate New Facilities in Italy Next Week

PCMC (Paper Converting Machine Company Italia S.p.A.), Diecimo (Lucca), Italy, part of the U.S. multinational Barry-Wehmiller (St. Louis, Mo., USA), next Wednesday, (October 12, 2016) will inaugurate its new facilities in Fornaci di Barg, Italy. The new facilities culminate PCMC’s business activities that began in 1919.  The company’s turnover today exceeds EUR 50 million. 

The new premises will allow check-outs of four converting lines simultaneously, for a production capacity of 36 lines per year, together with space for the administration, production, and sales departments. The official inauguration of the new plant on October 12 will include a very special event that merges tradition of the past with the technology of the future. The event is being dedicated to the about 1,000 people working in the company and their families, customers, and guests coming from the world over, with a special focus on the young generations that are part of the PCMC family. The vent also celebrates almost 100 years of history keeping—not profits, not the product—but people and their talents at the center of everything.

Spurred by the corporate motto "People Care Moves our Company," the event is centered on the talent protagonists of PCMC’s development throughout the years. 

Together with the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility, another inauguration will take place--the street the facility is on will be dedicated to William Austin Chapman, founder of Barry-Wehmiller, which will bear his name.

To celebrate the event and mark the company’s roots in tradition, participants will be taken to Fornaci di Barga on a steam train--a time machine that, like the history of PCMC, goes back a long way and is headed straight into the future.

For more than 90 years, PCMC has been specializing in the design and manufacture of converting machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, and flexographic printing industries. Its tissue converting product line includes laminating, printing, embossing, perforating and packaging equipment to produce multi-ply bathroom tissue and household towels, table napkins, and away-from-home rolled products. The nonwovens converting line produces a variety of consumer products, including wet wipe disposable cloths. In addition, the company is a major manufacturer of multi-substrate flexographic presses, providing numerous printing options for the flexible packaging industry. The offer includes also machine rebuild and upgrade packages to improve the performance of existing equipment.