Bühler Group and Premier Tech partner on design and manufacturing center in China
28 Aug 2019 --- Swiss Bühler Group and Premier Tech from Canada are to build a design and manufacturing center in China with a focus on industrial flexible packaging solutions. This strategic cooperation is planned to result in a joint venture for design and manufacturing during 2020, with Bühler focusing on sales of turnkey plants around the world, and Premier Tech on packaging systems in China. Both companies will continue to sell their products through their existing channels.
In the partnership, Bühler will be contributing its experiential knowledge in grain and food processing, Chinese supply chain management, as well as digital solutions. Premier Tech will be offering its packaging expertise and technological capacities in this field. In combining these competencies, the strategic cooperation targets the development of automated, food safe and accurate bagging and palletizing solutions.
“The two companies are complementing each other, with Bühler’s strong footprint and market position in China and Premier Tech’s know-how in the field of automated packaging technologies,” says André Noreau, CEO of Premier Tech’s Systems and Automation business.
The strategic cooperation will allow Bühler to provide better turnkey projects with competitive packaging solutions from China while continuing to deliver products such as Bühler’s bagging station Maia from its own manufacturing network in Europe.
At the same time, Bühler will continue to design and market their weighing portfolio. Their scales such as Tubex are not part of the agreement. With the partnership, Bühler is hoping to further improve its digital services, allowing for full transparency and traceability along its value chain.
Premier Tech will gain better access to the Chinese market by using the cost-effective and modern packaging solutions arising from the strategic cooperation, or by combining them to its Chronos technology portfolio in weighing, bagging and palletizing.
By Benjamin Ferrer
