CAMA-WITTENSTEIN: A WINNING PARTNERSHIP

“Birds of a feather flock together!” says a well-known proverb. That is just what happened with the successful partnership between CAMA and WITTENSTEIN which began back in 2001, when it was still known as alpha gearheads, and it still goes on. Two companies with similar DNA, both customer-oriented, with a wide range of highly technological and reliable products. Companies which constantly search for innovation.
CAMA Group is an Italian company which has been producing high-tech systems for secondary packaging for almost thirty years, from the receiving of packaged products to every phase of packing which precedes palletization. Its machines, which are mainly manufactured for the food field (90% of their sales), particularly for baked goods (biscuits, snacks), confectionery and dairy products (yogurt, cheese and ice-creams), include forming, closing and cartoning machines, case packers, sleeving machines and 2-4 axis robots equipped with vision systems.
In order to satisfy market demand, the company has invested about 5% of its turnover in Research & Development. “This choice has been our strength and thanks to our continuous product innovation we are able to offer ‘state of the art’ systems to our customers”, declares Annalisa Bellante, Marketing Manager of CAMA Group.
“The quality of our systems also lies in our choice of dependable suppliers, such as WITTENSTEIN, with whom we share the constant drive towards product innovation and reliability. All that has enabled us to grow, notwithstanding the economic crisis of the last few years, and to triple our turnover over the last 5 years reaching about 40 million Euros in 2008", concludes Annalisa Bellante.
“That is true”, confirms Alessandra Suriano, Communications Director of WITTENSTEIN S.P.A., the Italian subsidiary of WITTENSTEIN alpha GmbH, “we have a privileged relationship with CAMA that has lasted for years, based on values like quality and reliability, which are essential for supplying customers with complete solutions designed for their specific needs.”
The constant investment in R&D has made WITTENSTEIN Group the undisputed leader in the design, development and production of low backlash planetary gearheads, servo right-angle gearboxes, rotary and linear servo-actuators and complete transmission systems. Today, its solutions add up to more than 40 thousand possible combinations and 85% of its products are “younger” than 5 years. Gearheads are small, but essential parts within a machine and can make the difference in terms of quality. “CAMA is a very important customer, not only in terms of turnover, but also for the kind of machinery they produce. Since their production lines can work nonstop for even up to 24 hours at high speed, the quality level of all of their parts must be the top. This awareness and the responsibility for our partners drive us to be more and more innovative”, continues Alessandra Suriano.
Due to their precision and high-reliability, WITTENSTEIN products are installed on most CAMA systems. Amongst the latest and most innovative applications we quote the servo-actuator TPM+ (photo) on CAMA robotic lines. TPM+ compacts the motor-gearbox solution into a minimal space so that it can be flanked by different multitask transport units. This leads to a more functional machine layout, easier maintenance and a more modern and dynamic group image. As a matter of fact, TPM+ merges the planetary gearhead and AC servo motor into a single unit reducing its installation space by over 20%. Its new technological design and its rounded “corners” make it less subject to impurity deposits without affecting its precision, functionality and controllability, even working at high speed.