Production capacity is also limited - CMC can only make five or six machines a month, though it plans to double that soon.Back at CMC, Francesco Ponti is relaxed."If automation grows, the (number of) people who work in automation grow, and the quality of their work will be much better than it is today.com.com, which dispatches up to 25,000 items a day, told a CMC customer presentation.”.It now employs 300 people and has revenues of 50 million euros - thanks mainly to CartonWrap, which measures goods coming down a conveyor belt through a scanner and wraps each in a custom-made box.Both Amazon and Walmart are customers, though Ponti said client relationships were confidential.While Italian and German companies dominate the automated packaging market, Chinese competition is growing.And leading the pack is - automated packaging - growing nine times faster than the economy as a whole, according to the trade association UCIMA."Scale is a problem for our industry and consolidation is already under way,” said Maurizio Marchesini, chairman of Marchesini Group, which specialises in packaging for pharmaceutical products. Others include the Italian fashion group Gucci, the French retailer Leclerc and the Dutch online shop Bol."There are no more people who want to do this job by hand,” he said."The machines have allowed us to manage the packaging process more efficiently, and process all outbound shipments in just a few hours with the help of two or three employees.His father, Giuseppe, a technician with a local packaging company, founded CMC in 1980 in a domestic garage not far from the frescoed 16th century palazzi of Città di Castello.Machinery is Italy’s top export, worth almost 50 billion euros (USD 57 billion) last year and a rare bright spot for a stagnant economy plagued by low productivity and high unemployment.”

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