Mr Michele Darderi, marketing manager
GLOBAL EXPANSION PLANS Mr Michele Darderi, marketing manager of the Pavan Group SpA, spoke to Industry Europe about the group’s recent developments and achievements. Barbara Rossi reports.
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he Pavan Group headquarters are based in the Padua area of north-eastern Italy. In 2010 the group, founded in 1946, achieved a turnover of €107 million and a net profit of €6 million. The group exports 90 per cent of its production to 120 countries, has five subsidiaries, one technology school and can boast six production brands. Manufacturing of pasta production systems, with its 35 per cent share of the world market, is the core business of the group, but manufacturing of process systems for the production of other items, such as fresh and nest shaped pasta, couscous, pellets and snack 3D, breakfast cereals, flaked and shaped cereals, precooked pasta and flour are also of primary importance. In addition 126 Industry Europe
to this Pavan is also a supplier of turnkey systems for the packaging, transport and stocking of raw materials and final products. 76 per cent of the group turnover derives from food sector machines and systems, 10 per cent from cereal, animal feed and milling machines and systems and 3 per cent from stock systems. Alongside those, there is 10 per cent whose origin is food production and commercialisation. The competitive advantage offered by the Pavan Group is its capacity for offering turnkey systems, which as well as being highly reliable, can be adapted to different raw material processing, reducing waste and assuring very high final product quality standards. These characteristics have a strategic value, especially in those markets
where raw materials often change, depending on base cereals price swings. In this last year Pavan has achieved some milestones in the food industry, such as the biggest dry pasta production lines, reaching outputs of 6000kg an hour, recently installed in the USA.
Outstanding growth Following a growth strategy in line with the group’s recent history, in 2010 Pavan acquired Golfetto Sangati, a long-established Paduabased company and a world leader in milling and animal feed systems. Last year the Padua main site was moved and merged with the Quinto di Treviso plant. Ambitiously aiming at regaining efficiency, this plant has undergone deep restructuring, allowing it to achieve a
