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The new sales rep at Pronova
is Lars-Goran Johansson.

Those of you who visited us at the Easyfair Pack & Emballage packaging show in Stockholm have already had the pleasure to make his acquaintance. 

Lars-Goran works together with Joakim Lavesson towards the Scandinavian market and parts of the German market. Prior to Pronova, Lars-Goran worked at Albany International in Halmstad, where he was in charge of the sale and service in certain export markets. He has also worked at Andreas Kufferath GmBH where he had the same responsibility but towards the Scandinavian market. Both companies are suppliers to the paper industry.

He likes to spend his spare-time with his family and at the rowing club in Halmstad. 

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Pronova expands

To meet the growing demand for Pronova’s products, Pronova has decided to extend the premises in Halmstad. The expansion will occur in two phases of which the first one is scheduled to start this year and the second one next year.

Phase 1: Extension of warehouse and machine park.

Phase 2: New building on adjacent grounds. According to plans, this new building will house flexo-printing and bag conversion.

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Pronova invests 5 million SEK in plastic factory in Halmstad

To meet the increasing demand for bags to the Pronova Packaging Systems, Pronova now invests 5 million SEK in yet another bag machine line. It is scheduled to be in operation in September this year and calls for two additional employments.

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Pronova Packaging Systems, recently entered into an agreement with FLEXICO, a French company specialized in reclosable flexible packaging.

The agreement involves access to the brand name Joker Classic, the technology for making those bags and license for making the patented Joker Sesam bags.

Flexico will sell these packagings in France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, and Belgium where they have their own sales organisation. They have manufacturing plants in France, Spain, and Germany.

To be able to give the customers complete packaging systems in these countries, Flexico will cooperate with several established machine distributors that sell the packaging machines and automated filling equipment produced by Pronova.

Jean-Christophe Bugeon, Managing Director of Flexico (to the left), together with Pronova’s Managing Director Johan Jostler

Pronova's Managing Director Johan Jostler sees this arrangement as a great business opportunity for Pronova.

”We have been represented in Switzerland for a long time, but France, Spain and Belgium are important and highly interesting new markets for us. Along with Pronova’s own sale activities in Germany and Holland, and the cooperation we have with Supreme Plastics in England, this enables us to create a firm market that will give us the resources we need in order to further develop our packaging systems”.

”It is, after all, in development of packaging technology we have our true strength” Johan Jostler concludes.

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New filling technique
PRONOVA has developed a new generation filling equipment that counts, directs and pushes the products into a horizontally placed bag. 

The bags have the newer Sesam design and the bag opening can be adjusted from a thin slot for thin products up to 200 mm. 

One or two bags can be filled at once, depending on the height of the package and capacity needs. When filling two bags at once, one can reach a capacity of 60 bags per minute. This high speed is achieved by having the pushers controlled by two servomotors in two directions.

The flexibility that characterizes the Pronova packaging machines has now been further accentuated by this new technique 

The new filling technique is ideal for different kinds of bread and food packaging, for soft paper products and as shown on video, for multi-packs of consumer products.

Bags can have different features such as reseal ability, carrier handle and other value-adding attributes.

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Long distance delivery
Pronova has sold and delivered a packaging machine to British American Tobacco (BAT) in Papua New Guinea. The deal also includes running orders of bags that are made at the Pronova plant in Sweden. The deal was possible through an Australian company, specialized in delivering equipment to the tobacco industry.

The packaging machine is one of Pronova's standard machines that has been equipped with extra long opening rails which enable for many people to manually fill the bags at the same time.

It isn’t a technically advanced task for Pronova to manufacture a machine that packs up tobacco and we have been able to offer them a basic and reliable machine with great capacity, says Sven-Olof at Pronova.

”What turned out to be quite a challenge though, was to get the goods to Papua New Guinea. The domestic flight between the capital city Port Moresby and Madang didn’t accept any goods longer than 1,5 meters so we had to dismantle the machine in order for it to fit into a box that small”.

The bags are delivered by sea, and it takes approximately 2 months for them to reach Madang.

The packaging machine and a first order of bags was delivered in September and the managing director at Pronova went there to get the machine running and to make sure that the customers were fully satisfied with their long distance delivery.