E80 Group

9 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 E80 GROUP trying it.” It’s bringing profitability to E80’s table. “From my point of view,” says Pongolini, “we have always provided solutions that give tangible benefits to our customers. In this way, we have built up a long-term partnership and repeat business with them. Our customers know what they need to increase their profitability and they are not shy when it comes to telling it to us. So, we always try to listen to them. Our investment in R&D and new technologies have been guided by our customer’s needs. We believe this is the only way to grow and progress, we want to do it along with our customers.” A good customer base He also described the company’s customer base. “We have been focusing historically always on the CPG (consumer packaged goods) industry,” says Pongolini, “so the majority of our references are in the consumer goods companies. We work with all the big ones in North America. These are very recognizable brands. When you go to the supermarket in the main aisles, you will see all of our customers.” Right now, in North America, E80 is implementing 50 large automation systems. Some of them are greenfields, and some of them are at existing facilities that will be completely upgraded from manual to automatic. “I’m going to give you two examples to show you the type of project we are executing,” says Pongolini. “For instance, right now we are implementing a greenfield. It’s a bottling plant that will have seven high-speed bottling lines. E80 will supply equipment and software for complete automation, spanning from palletizers at the end of the production lines to trailer loading. “Also,” he adds, “E80 will supply palletizers, stretch wrappers, labelers for end-of-line applications, LGVs for raw and packing material handling, packaging material delivery, finished product pickup, and trailer loading. Additionally, an ASRS system with