Interview: The president of Euro-PAN: Dairy manufacturers invest in packaging lines

The year 2010 confirmed that the interest in modern high-performance packaging machines in Poland  is growing - said Mieczyslaw Pankiewicz, CEO of Euro-PAN, in his interview with food industry online magazine portalspozywczy.pl.

High performance, hygiene and quality are increasingly convincing the Polish customers to purchase equipment manufactured in 19 factories of the international corporation OYSTAR. - In the last year, Polish customers have chosen several machines for dairy product packaging - yoghurt, dairy desserts, butter, margarine; packing and palletizing. Consolidation and thus an increase in production scale of dairy products in several plants induces the customers to buy high-performance, high-end devices and makes us look at an eight-digit turnover - says Mieczyslaw Pankiewicz.

The president of Euro-Pan points out that the Polish dairy industry is not only defined by the modern processing plants, but also top executives and managers, production managers, technology and technical services. - However, in my opinion, the main obstacle in the investment process with Euro-PAN is still the dilemma whether to choose less expensive equipment and accept lower quality, or rather choose the high-end machines, which had been tested around the globe. We try to convince the customer that it is worthwhile investing in reliability and high quality, especially when it comes to high outputs, because in the end it always turns out to be cheaper and better - says president Pankiewicz.