Excellence: the fruit of innovation

PELLETIZING

BLOWN

FILM

FOIL &

SHEET

EXTRUDERS

FOR STEEL PIPE

COATING

EXTRUDERS

Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera today

• Family owned company, managed by the founder’s sons Piero and Franco Bandera

since 1973

A member of

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Our first 65 years as a family company

Founded by

Luigi Bandera

Bandera soon proved to

be an energetically

expanding enterprise

playing a pioneering role

in the development of

plastic processing

machinery industry

1947 1950 1960

1970 1975 1979

Joint stock

company

Expansion to

an industrial

production

scale thanks to a broad

and diversified

production range

in the extrusion

process

Development

of big new

3-layer

agricultural

film line

Commenced

cooperation

as a qualified

partner of Brückner

Group Germany

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Our first 65 years as a family company

1980

1995 1998 2000 2004 2006

Became a

worldwide

leader among

extrusion

equipment

manufacturers

ISO 9001

Certification

Launched the

innovative

patented PET

direct sheet

extrusion

process

Creation of

separate blown

film and foils &

sheet product

lines dedicated

to packaging

application

Design of the

largest new 5 layers

agri-film lines up to

22 m film open

width

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Our first 65 years as a family company

1980 1995

1998 2000 2007 2008 2009 2012

Opening of the

Representative

and After-Sales

Service Office

in Beijing

Achievement

of NOL by FDA

(USA) for new

generation PET

sheet Extrusion

dryerless

process

SBA with PTI

to promote the

HVTSE

technology

in U.S.A.

Began

construction

of the new R&D

and wet trials

facility

2013

Launched

lighter Packaging

Campain 2020

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The value of the Bandera brand

Experienced & Innovative R&D constant investment

Reliable Thorough concept of all the equipment

Performing at the highest level best outputs and tolerances

Focused on customer requirements service oriented

Competitive and cost-effective consolidated standard production procedures

Serious and well-organized Family owned but professionally managed

In-depth knowledge of extrusion process in-house design and production for 65 years

Engineering flexibility availability of complete customized turn key

Guaranteed plants performances selling well-tested and mature technologies

Already projected to the future safe supplier for long-term cooperation

worldwide

reputation for

trustworthiness,

integrity and high

standards within a

business context

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Mission: the future of extrusion

• Bandera’s mission is to affirm itself as the widest top-range Extrusion Centre

for Excellence in Europe, focusing on cutting-edge technological production

lines for plastics processing in the blown film, sheet & foil and pipe extrusion

fields to be main player of the

future of extrusion

• Bandera aims to strengthen

its position on the international

market as an industrial pole,

which combines designing,

engineering, manufacturing

and putting into service

innovative extrusion lines,

supported by its technical

assistance

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Mission: safety, energy saving, recycling

Among others, Bandera is focused on two core aspects:

SAFE OPERATING CONDITIONS FOR EXTRUSION LINES

and

OPTIMUM ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND EXCELLENT KNOWLEDGE

OF THE USE OF RECYCLED PLASTICS,

in order to provide its Customers with:

Safe and reliable

production lines which

manufacture at the highest

level and yield quality

performances

Minimum power

consumption production

lines

Dedicated extrusion lines for

the production of finished

products made from innovative

thermoplastics, thus favoring

recycled and biodegradable

material transforming

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Values System: the «Extrusion Intelligence» concept

To fulfill its mission, Bandera has adopted and applied a value system at each and

every level of its corporate human capital:

1. Focused on and their production needs, besides ongoing enhancement of supplied

equipment quality

2. Corporate reliability, integrity, discretion, and transparency to strengthen the Bandera

brand as a long-term credible and reliable supplier and technological partner

3. Attitude towards innovation and changes

to advance needs prompted by finished

products manufactured by Bandera

machinery and lines

Bandera demonstrates its commitment

to innovation and flexibility, as well as

to experimentation with new ideas

and solutions to maximise

the enhancement of technology

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Bandera’s ethics

• Building friendly relationships

with business partners to develop

common growth

• Developing market orientation

attitude at all levels of its

management

• Maximizing each employee’s

skills to make them passionate

about the company mission

• Offering an efficient, prompt

and exclusive service to clients,

reducing any waste of time,

material and energy

• Boosting “made in Italy” original

in-house brand worldwide

• Pursuing social projects

in local community

Market

orientation

Maximize

employee‘s

skills

Efficiency

concept

as saving

energy

Partnership

as base

of business

relations

Made in Italy

Social

projects

in local

community

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• The Bandera family also prides itself on undertaking

social projects within the local community in which it

developed its industry

• In 1989, Luigi Bandera, an enthusiastic art collector,

with the patronage of Busto Arsizio City Council, sponsored

the foundation of the “Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte”,

an art gallery, museum and interactive school for the

promotion of local cultural activities and arts in general

• Housed in one of the company’s prestigious buildings,

the gallery is primarily dedicated to exhibitions of paintings

and sculptures by international celebrated artists, and

enjoys nationwide recognition for its multicultural activities

• Bandera annually sponsors the BAFF (Busto Arsizio Film

Festival organisation) and its projects within the film industry

Social projects in local community

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Location: «The plastics district»

• The headquarters

and the main factory

are located in pleasant

natural surroundings

in the middle of a green park

• The company is situated

in the city of Busto Arsizio,

15 minutes by car close to

the new Milan Malpensa

International Airport

• The whole area/triangle

in Lombardia,

between Milan,

Varese and Novara,

is a specialized district

in plastic processing

machines designing

and manufacturing

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Men at work

• The factories have recently been renovated to better combine the serial manufacturing

phases with relevant quality control procedures

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Global presence

• A global network to improve Bandera capillarity presence

• Exclusive dealers and agents

Belgium

(Service Centre North Europe) USA & Canada

Mexico

Cuba

Guatemala

Argentina

Chile

Brazil (Service Centre Americas)

Colombia

India

Indonesia

Singapore Malaysia

Thailand

China

(Branch Office and Service Centre Asia)

South Korea

Russian Federation

South Africa

Egypt

Turkey

Spain

Austria

France

England

Germany

Poland SBA with PTI

Scandinavia

Head Quarters and Service Centre South Europe, Africa and Middle East

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Facts & figures: latest turnovers

• The company has had a solid financial base since it was established

• Bandera remains the largest Italian extruder manufacturer

• Growing revenues for share holders

• Rational number of employees growing (skilled engineers as new career positions)

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

2001/2003 2010/2011 2012 YEAR

MILLION

EURO

156 employees

158 employees

44 million €

60 million €

63 million €

155 employees

51 million €

148 employees

46 million €

146 employees

2004/2006 2007/2009

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Facts & figures: employees

• The company is recognized as a leading company in boosting internal career growth

and progression by absorbing the top talents of the main technical and business

universities in the Milan/Turin area

• To promote efficiency, a team mentality is promoted among top individual

professionals

• Basic mechanical components design

and rheological studies on screws

behavior on latest thermoplastic

materials are developed in house by

experienced engineers

• Internal training sessions on polymer

science are organized in cooperation

with ASSOCOMAPLAST

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Facts & figures: employees

• A staff of highly skilled electronic engineers designs and fabricates all the electrical

equipment, including whole development of dedicated software for relevant

computerized controls

• Year 2012: 158 employees

(65% of them technicians and engineers)

“Workers will always be

the beating hearts

of Bandera business activity.

We all need to train them

constantly.”

Luigi Bandera - from the Message

to the Board of directors (year 2001)

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Production facilities

• 3 production areas (100.000 sq. mts total area):

– Mechanical and electrical machine/line assembling hall

– Specialized factory for screw, barrel and flat die manufacturing

– R&D department with wet test dedicated area

• Extensive use of CNC-controlled machine tools to produce

extruder screws and barrels and dies

• Large availability of big size blown film die manufacturing

• Today’s large industrial complex was born of a man who

passionaly built his first machine with his own hands.

This craftsman’s spirit has lived on through the years and is

reflected in the creative innovation of the actual projects

• One characteristic of Bandera is that all the main mechanical

parts are entirely designed and manufactured inside the

Group. More particularly, we produce our own extruder screws,

barrels and die-heads. Also the downstream equipment, with a

few exceptions, is designed and built in-house

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Plans for a new R&D and wet test trials facility

A dedicated new plant

will be finished soon

in early 2013 to

accommodate R&D

industrial tests and

to execute complete

line wet trials

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Design and manufacturing in house

• Precise machining of complex and often large-size

pieces of machinery

• Manufacturing large-bore, long extruder barrels

• A section of the technical department is entirely devoted to

designing and manufacturing dies, screws and barrels

• Besides embodying advanced technology, they are often

designed on specific request of the thermoplastic

material to be processed

• In-house manufacturing facility for these parts ensures

perfect quality as well as the prompt supply of spares,

including those for non-standard or machines which

are no longer manufactured

• Development staff with in-depth knowledge of rheology

• Extensive use of computer-aided design system is

made throughout, for research, simulation and drafting

especially for screw and large blown film dies

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PELLETIZING

Business units

BLOWN FILM FOIL & SHEET EXTRUDERS

FOR STEEL PIPE

COATING

EXTRUDERS

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Real incidence and developing trend

of each product line on total annual turnover

35%

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%

Spare

parts

Blown

film

Foil &

sheet

Extruders Pelletizers

Main product lines

• Bandera has recently divided the production section into two parts:

packaging with a focus on technology, with broad experience in both designing

and process too

• Bandera has concentrated its efforts on providing n. 2 main

complete product lines for blown films

and sheets & foils thermoplastic and

steel pipe coating technology

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Complete extrusion lines for blown film

• Bandera supplies complete extrusion lines for the production of mono-and multilayer film

for technical packaging in 3, 5, 7 and 9 layers (food and medical-pharmaceutical

sectors), agricultural film (high output, multilayer, width over 16m, specific dies of diameter

over 2600 mm) and high thickness film for geomembranes used in civil and industrial

waterproofing systems

• Bandera also supplies innovative know-how and technologies applied for the most

up-to-date thermoplastics materials transformation for the production of industrial sacks,

shoppers and various bags, as well as of shrink film (cover pallets and stretch caps)

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Complete extrusion lines for blown film

• Bandera’s production lines are fitted with automatic control systems to ensure the

final product quality (loss-in-weight gravimetric dosing of raw material, in-line thickness

control, automatic winding unit with a driven winding reel, as well as of a combined

type), supervision unit and computerized line management.

Simple to learn and easy to use.

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Complete extrusion lines for foil and sheets

• Bandera designs and manufactures complete extrusion lines for the production of

mono and multi layer foils mainly for food packaging industry and for the

production of high thickness sheets for the industrial thermoforming application

for the following applications:

– Winding foils of 120 microns with thickness up to 2 mm in HIPS, PP, CRPS, A/CPET

and PETG (both compact and expanded materials), PLA, for application in the out-

and-in-line rigid thermoformed food packaging sector

– Thin sheets in PP and PET (generally embossed) for the paper industry; medium

thickness sheets in PS and ABS/ABS-PMMA for the sector of electric household

appliances production

– Technical sheets in HDPE, PP, HMWPE, PC

mixed ABS and in mixed materials (including

thermoplastic resins and inhomogeneous

industrial waste) for the sector of

automobile components and

deep thermoforming

– Flexible sheets for waterproofing

systems (geomembrane multilayer

in PP/PE) also with inner reinforcement in fiber or fabric, etc.

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Complete extrusion lines for foil and sheets

• Bandera is a world leader in supplying the technology for the direct dryerless extrusion

of PET SHEETS using a patented extrusion system with a co-rotating twin screw extruder

equipped with an intense venting system

• Moreover, Bandera has developed innovative technology for the following processes:

– In line mass adding of master batches, fillers and reacting agents to direct noble the

sheet during extrusion process (co-rotating twin screw extruders combined with loss

in weight dosing units)

– High speed multiweb complete automatic winders for thermoformable sheets

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Side product lines

• Still providing extruders for different applications (single screw, twin screw –

counter and co-rotating – large sizes, in cascade configuration, special designed for

solid and new expanded materials) remains one of the most profitable business

• Bandera produces at its own manufacturing facilities, both extruders and screws and

barrels for individual extrusion groups (single-screw, as

well as co-rotating and counter-rotating twin-screw units)

and extrusion die heads (for blown film and pipes)

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Single screw Twin screw corotating Twin screw counter rotating

• Additional fields of interest with many experience are:

– PVC pelletizing lines with counter rotating twin screw extruders

– Extruders for steel pipe coating technology and thermoplastic pipes lines

Side product lines

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Quality control

In Bandera, quality is considered the

foundation of all the design, manufacturing

and servicing activities

• 1998: ISO 9001 quality certificate was achieved

• The culture of quality is focused on customer

satisfaction and constant training through

specific courses on the disciplines of quality

is carried out

• The quality procedures are standardized through:

– Checking the materials beforehand and

monitoring the suppliers

– Control of the product during the production phases

– Quality control of the finished product

– Identification and traceability of materials and products

– Check of the measuring and test instruments

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After-sales service – the key factor of Bandera brand • Bandera has developed a specific

team of engineers dedicated to both

the installation and start up of the

complete lines and to instruct the

customer’s personnel as to the best

performance of the equipment

supplied

• Responsive customer service is

an essential part of the

manufacturing industry, all the

more so at Bandera, since we serve

a very broad range of machines

supplied in great numbers all over

the world, in all types of regions and

climates, over long periods of time.

Bandera machines are designed

and built for exceptionally long

service lives

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Efficient customer service. Wide availability and fast reaction

After-sales service is granted 24 hours a day through a specific network of

communication between 4 service centers

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Original spare parts on demand

• Exact identification and prompt shipment of all spares required can only be

assured by a well-conceived, efficient organization, with personnel specially trained for

the task, and the use of computer systems throughout

• This involves very large and efficiently managed inventories of parts for after-sales

service and for our current production requirements

• Additional stores are provided at each operating site

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Institutional contacts and business partners BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Dr. Mario Del Cane President of Board of Directors

• Piero Bandera Managing Director

• Franco Bandera Managing Director

• Enrico Venegoni Member of Board of Directors

MANAGEMENT

• Enrico Venegoni Technical Director of Sheet/Foil Division

• Maurizio Gambarotto Production, Operations and Procurement Director

• Diego Castiglioni Technical Director of Blown Film Division

• Sergio Ceriani Finance and Accounting Director

• Dr. Andrea Rigliano Sales & Marketing Director

CREDITS

PARTNERS

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Extrusion intelligence head

• The company Head represents the summary of

continuous innovative ideas in extrusion technology as

inspired by the founder Luigi Bandera

• The Bandera brand name is recognized

worldwide as denoting innovation in extrusion

technology, through reliable and cost effective

solutions and equipment

• Since its emergence into the market, Bandera has

had a consistent vision and goal: primarily to produce

innovative ideas for the plastics processing industry

• Thanks to 60 years of extensive experience in

designing, manufacturing, selling, installing and

servicing extrusion machinery on the major world

markets, Bandera is eminently qualified to supply

engineering services, know-how and complete

factories on a turn-key basis

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Extrusion intelligence 2009 Product lines media campaign

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Extrusion intelligence 2010 Product lines media campaign

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Extrusion intelligence 2011-2012 Product lines media campaign

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Extrusion intelligence 2011-2012 Product lines media campaign

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