Technology, experience, professionalism and great attention to the world market and to the requirements of its customers. These are the ingredients for success at Teamac, a company located in Budrio in the Bologna province, which produces machines for packaging tea in ecological bags. The company, which joined the Marchesini Group in 2003, is a leader in the packaging machinery sector.

The company now known as Teamac (the name derives from the first three letters of the words Tea Machinery) was established in 1993 by Alberto Daunisi, a professional with international experience in the packaging sector, under the name Maisa Italia in partnership with Guillermo Mai, an Argentinean entrepreneur and owner of Maisa Argentina and son of its founder Pablo Mai.

Therefore, the company’s tea packaging experience derives from the business that from 1974 Guillermo Mai decided to undertake with the aim of producing tea packaging machinery at a cost within reach of less affluent countries such as those in South America or Africa. Until then automated tea packaging was only possible on rather sophisticated and expensive machines which produced double chamber bags closed using a metal staple. In contrast, the machines set up by Mr. Mai produced single chamber bags closed using glue which were hugely successful.

However, as the years went by the double chamber bag, having four parts in contact with the hot water and so optimum for an infusion, proved to be an increasingly good solution, taking 75% of the market. This prompted Mr. Daunisi to immediately study a machine not just able to produce that type of pack, but also able to offer an extra degree of innovation. Aware of the increasing market demand for an ecological pack, Mr. Daunisi created a fully ecological, new concept tea bag, made of completely natural filter paper and closed by double knotting the thread used to fix the paper tag to it. Therefore, the solution was without external agents: no glue which partly dissolves in the infusion, no metal staples to transmit micro-anodising to the water which dissolves in the cup of tea inside a microwave.