Miller Magazine Issue 107 / November 2018

79 MILLER / NOVEMBER 2018 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM Golfetto Sangati exports its products all over the world, having built 5.000 plants in 130 countries. It is a member of GEA, one of the largest suppliers for the food processing industry in the world. In this issue, our guest for Technology Platform is Mr. Sergio Passaro, Golfetto Sangati’s Area Manager for Italy, Russia and Balkan area. Mr. Passaro talked about the company, their vision and future plans to Miller Magazine. “We are very strong in Italy, Latin America and North Africa, especially Algeria and Morocco. In the last five years, Golfetto Sangati provided approximately 60 percent of Plants, Machinery and Equipment for flour milling sold in the Italian market. Strengthened by our membership of the GEA group, we can now count on a technical, commercial and financial structure that enables us to ac- hieve our ambitious customer-satisfaction objectives.” Here are Mr. Passaro’s answers to our questions: Could you please provide us with some brief background information on Golfetto Sangati and its activities? Golfetto Sangati became a member of the Pavan Group in 2010, acquired by GEA in 2017. GEA is one of the largest suppliers of process technology for the food industry, employing about 17,500 people worldwide. In 2017, it generated a turnover of 4.6 billion Euros. The Golfetto Sangati brand represents now the heri- tage of GBS GROUP, founded in 2000 from the merge of three historical Italian manufacturers of milling equip- ment and cereal handling systems: Golfetto (founded in 1923), Sangati (1929) and Berga (1952). The company develops, builds and installs turnkey plants of durum and wheat mills, maize mills, animal feed plants, rice mil- ls, ship loadings and unloading systems, storage systems for raw materials and finished products. Can you give some information about Golfetto Sangati’s facilities and production capacity? Golfetto Sangati employs today over 200 people wor- king in three production sites: the headquarters and a production site are based in Italy, while a third pole is located in Beijing, China. At the Italian sites we manu- facture the most important equipment for wheat, maize and rice mills and also animal feed plants: rollermills, plan sifter, purifiers, cleaning machine, filters are as- sembled at the headquarters in Treviso, while elevators, chain conveyors and silos are produced at Manfredonia. The Chinese factory produces machines mainly dedica- ted to the Chinese and Indian markets. Where are the most intensive markets and region for you? Is there any focus region for your company? Even though we operate worldwide, we are specifi- cally focusing towards Far Eastern Countries where the fastest population growth increases the demand for wheat-based foodstuffs. You participated in Congress of Russia Flour and