Five-year agreement makes Antares exclusive supplier of all inspection and tracking technologies, and lays groundwork for innovative jointly-developed solutions
Two Italy-based equipment solutions leaders to bring digital innovation into sectors with high growth potential
Travagliato (BS), June 17, 2020 – Antares Vision has entered into a partnership with IMA, a company listed in the STAR segment and a global leader in the design and production of machines for process automation and packaging of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, foodstuffs, tea and coffee.
The two companies’ 20-year history of cooperation supplying inspection systems to ensure the quality and integrity of pharmaceutical packaging will now extend to a variety of other segments – including food & beverage, cosmetics and medical devices – for product traceability and smart data management. This turns Antares Vision into one of the go-to technological partners supporting digital innovation efforts for the entire IMA Group internationally.
Aimed at consolidating and strengthening the leadership of both partners in existing and emerging markets, the five-year agreement involves synergistic cooperation for developing and implementing innovative solutions via specific projects, new business opportunities and new products. These will initially take the form of new, collaborative production lines, then expanded to comprise upgrades and retrofits of existing lines.
The agreement will result in significant growth in the integration of Antares Vision technology within IMA machines, further strengthening this important commercial and technological partnership.
Emidio Zorzella, Chairman and Managing Director of Antares Vision: “We are extremely pleased with the agreement we have reached with our partner, with whom we have been sharing experiences and skills in the pharmaceutical sector for over 20 years, through the supply of visual inspection systems for product quality control. IMA has affirmed and strengthened its partnership with our company – the only technological player able to offer a single, comprehensive solution by integrating the supply of inspection systems with tracking and data analysis solutions along the whole production chain, thereby guaranteeing product quality and transparency. The agreement with IMA will allow us to penetrate new sectors more quickly and consistently, per our mission to bring our high-value offerings into high-leverage sectors beyond pharmaceuticals. Together, the two global leaders promote the digitisation of the supply chain, with future-ready applications, from automation, to interconnection, to smart data management, to guarantee Trustparency – transparency that generates trust.”
ABOUT ANTARES VISION
Listed since April 2019 on the Italian Stock Exchange in the AIM Market after a business combination with ALP.I (SPAC promoted by Mediobanca), Antares Vision guarantees the protection of products during their life cycle through visual inspection systems for quality control, Track & Trace solutions for anti-counterfeiting and supply chain control, smart data management for maximized efficiency and customer engagement, in all the most demanding industrial sectors, from pharmaceutical to biomedical devices, from food to beverage, from cosmetics to fashion. Antares Vision reaches over 60 countries in the world with complete and flexible solutions, hardware and software, and related services: four Italian branches (Brescia, Parma, Piacenza, Latina), 12 foreign branches (Ireland, Germany [2], France [2], USA [2], Brazil [2], India, Russia and Hong Kong), two Innovation Centers (Italy and Ireland) and a worldwide network of more than 30 partners. With 20 years of experience in vision technologies, Antares Vision is supplier of 10 of the 20 leading pharmaceutical Companies in the world with more than 25.000 vision systems, that ensure every day product safety and quality, 6.500 inspection checks on production lines and more than 3.500 serialization lines installed all over the world to guarantee the tracking of more than 5 billion products across the whole supply chain. With the aim of continuing and supporting the growth and development strategy, during 2019 participation agreements were finalized with T2 Software, a Brazilian company specialized in smart data management solutions, and Orobix, an Italian company leader in artificial intelligence services, as well as the acquisition of 100% of FT System, leader in control and inspection in the beverage sector. In April 2020, Antares Vision finalized an agreement for the acquisition of 82.83% of Tradeticity, a Croatian company specialized in software management of advanced traceability processes. In 2019 Emidio Zorzella and Massimo Bonardi were awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for innovation. www.antaresvision.com
info@antaresvision.com
390307283500
