Piovan

  • 09 April 2026

    Piovan to start up a new facility near Modena

    With a new manufacturing facility in San Felice sul Panaro (Modena, Italy), Piovan Group is strengthening its presence in Emilia-Romagna and taking a further step forward in the growth trajectory of its Food & Powders division, confirming its positioning in a highly specialised technological market...
  • 17 February 2026

    Piovan joins the UN Global Compact

    PiovanGroup has announced that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact as part of its corporate strategy to operate as a responsible company. With this step, the Santa Maria di Sala (Venice, Italy) Group strengthens its commitment to conduct its business responsibly in line with the...
  • 26 January 2026

    PiovanGroup announces binding agreements to acquire Mix&Co and BHT

    PiovanGroup has taken another significant step forward in its strategic path of inorganic growth by entering into binding agreements to acquire Mix&Co (operating under the Mix, Comav, and Eurosis brands) and BHT – two industrial operators manufacturing machinery and components for processing plants, based...
  • 03 December 2025

    Hot runner system with diaphragm gate

    Unlike conventional designs with axially moving needles, STARgate HRS hot runner technology from Oerlikon HRSflow, featuring a completely redesigned gate unit, uses a diaphragm-like element in the gate plane to manage melt flow into the cavity. Eliminating the need for...
  • 28 November 2025

    John Erkert appointed President of Conair

    John Erkert has assumed the role of President of Conair, part of Piovan Group. Since May 2024, John has served as CEO of PiovanGroup North America, leading regional operations and sales. During this time, he has advanced operational efficiency, strengthened...
  • 07 October 2025

    All Piovan Group brands on display at K 2025

    At K 2025, the Piovan Group will be present with its brands Piovan, Conair, Doteco, Pelletron, FDM, Food&Powders, UnaDyn and Thermal Care and will organise its exhibition in areas dedicated to the sectors of technical components, automotive, medical and pharmaceutical, rigid and...
  • 13 June 2025

    Chinese Open House for PiovanGroup

    Nearly 300 customers from across China attended the two-day open house event hosted by PiovanGroup at its new 15,000-square-metre production facility and APAC headquarters in Suzhou. During the event, the company unveiled its new manufacturing site, designed and built in line with the latest...
  • 07 May 2025

    Piovan Merges Penta and Fea Into Food & Powders Division

    The Piovan Group created Piovan Food & Powders, an important strategic evolution that rationalizes and unifies under a single brand the activities previously carried out by Piovan Penta and Fea in the sector of solutions for the food industry and industrial powder handling. Starting from...
  • 05 February 2025

    Automation Systems triggers mandatory takeover bid for Piovan

    The legal conditions have been met to trigger the requirements for launching a mandatory takeover bid on Piovan shares. This was announced by Automation Systems, a company whose capital is indirectly held by the Investindustrial VIII fund. In July 2024, Automation Systems had acquired a majority stake in Piovan...
  • 15 January 2025

    New Piovan headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region

    Twenty-five years after the establishment of its first subsidiary in China, Piovan Industrial Automation opens a new facility in Suzhou, China, for a total investment of more than 10 million euros. The 15,000-square-meter facility is designed to promote the PiovanGroup in Asia-Pacific as...
  • 11 December 2024

    Piovan expands Nu-Vu Conair office in India

    On 3 December, Nu-Vu Conair Private opened its new plant in Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India): an operational area of more than 5,500 sqm that actually increases the plant's efficiency and production capacity as it will house new assembly lines and the logistics center for shipping. The expansion...
  • 20 November 2024

    Results at 30 September 2024: Piovan stationary

    The board of directors of Piovan approved the consolidated financial results for the first nine months of 202, with total consolidated revenues and other income amounting to Eur 419.9 million, -1.7% compared to 30 September 2023. Consolidated adjusted net profit for the first nine months...
  • 11 October 2024

    Piovan at Fakuma with debutants and confirmations

    PiovanGroup takes part in Fakuma 2024 with its brands Piovan, Piovan Fdm, Pelletron e Thermal Care, exhibiting an overview of the latest technological innovations resulting from intensive R&D activities in the field of automation systems for plastics processing. In particular, a...
  • 24 July 2024

    Automation Systems to acquire 64.82% of Piovan’s share capital

    Automation Systems, a company indirectly owned by the Investindustrial fund and managed independently, signed an agreement for the acquisition of 58.35% of the share capital of Piovan from Pentafin through the purchase of 31,275,541 ordinary shares at a total price of approximately 438 million euros...
  • 26 June 2024

    Fernholz and Piovan Fdm: sustainable innovation in PP and PS sheet production

    The plastics industry is a sector that requires constant innovation and adaptation. In this dynamic environment, W. u. H. Fernholz GMBH & Co. KG, based in Meinerzhagen and Schkopau - Germany, is at the forefront of sustainable innovation: in recent years, it has significantly reduced packaging weights and sheet thicknesses, working...
  • 22 May 2024

    Piovan profits on the rise in first quarter 2024

    The board of directors of Piovan approved the consolidated financial results for the first quarter 2024. Total revenues in the period amounted to 136 million euros, -3.6% compared to 31 March 2023 while the operating profit amounted to 15.1 million euros, up from 9.6 million euros in the first quarter of 2023...