Interroll and IMA E-COMMERCE Join Forces to Drive Greater Efficiency in Industrial Development

Rho, October 20, 2025 – IMA E-COMMERCE, a new division of packaging industry leader IMA, and Interroll have signed a partnership agreement that will enable the Emilia-based group’s automated solutions to leverage Interroll’s intralogistics handling technologies taking efficiency and precision to the next level.

The data on e-commerce activity is impressive. According to EMarketer, global e-commerce sales reached $6.09 trillion in 2024, an increase of 8.4% over the previous year, with an estimated average annual growth rate of 7.6% through 2028.  In Italy, the trend is very similar, with online purchases reaching €58.8 billion in 2024, up 6% on the previous year. The Netcomm consortium predicts that the Italian market will exceed €62 billion, with products at €40.1 billion (+6%) and services at €22 billion (+8%).

“With such forecasts, IMA E-COMMERCE must quickly pursue absolute excellence, also in line with the values of our parent company,” explains Simone Capponcelli, Sales Manager & Division Coordinator at IMA E-COMMERCE. “That's why we chose Interroll for the handling technologies for our automated solutions, which must respond to the growing demand for online purchases and the specific needs of e-commerce.”

The IMA E-COMMERCE division designs automated packaging solutions for the e-commerce, e-fulfillment, third-party logistics (3PL), and intralogistics markets. Its technological offering includes forming machines, closing machines, and integrated systems for customized packaging, all designed to increase operational efficiency, reduce waste, and improve process sustainability. The technologies are already in operation at customers in the pharmaceutical, CEP, and automotive sectors, with prospects for expansion into the food industry as well.

IMA E-COMMERCE is part of the IMA Group, founded in 1961, a world leader in the development and production of automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, tea, and coffee products, as well as in the automation of industrial processes.

Today, the IMA Group has over 7,400 employees, of whom approximately 3,000 works abroad in 80 countries where 55 production facilities are located. The IMA Group holds more than 3,500 active patents and patent applications worldwide and in 2024 recorded consolidated revenues of approximately €2.4 billion.

Maurizio Catino, Chief Sales Officer of the Interroll Group, explains how "In addition to the fundamental characteristics of Interroll, a global, experienced, and technologically advanced company that perfectly suits the needs of a world leader such as IMA, we also add our strong vocation for the development of handling technologies for the OEM sector. Thanks to our solutions for this specific segment, the recently established IMA E-COMMERCE division will be able to offer the market automated packaging solutions complete with conveyor technologies capable of responding quickly and accurately to the needs of the e-commerce industry."

Julia Bonamici, Area Sales Manager Solution at Interroll Italia, has followed the progress of the agreements with IMA E-COMMERCE step by step and today expresses her satisfaction at the achievement of this important partnership. "The world of e-commerce is booming, considering that sales through social media also recorded global growth of over 20 points in 2024. E-commerce is developing at a rapid pace, and IMA E-COMMERCE is well aware of this. This partnership represents a starting point for sharing the development of new solutions based on a shared industrial vision and business quality concept."

The new partnership will see Interroll and IMA E-COMMERCE collaborate on the constant and effective development of new solutions for intralogistics automation.

“Interroll will help us with what is a fundamental part of e-commerce: the smooth, timely, and consistent movement of products that consumers, both business and retail, have purchased electronically and need to receive as quickly as possible. Our goal is quality combined with reliability and performance,” concludes Simone Capponcelli.

About Interroll
The Interroll Group is the leading global provider of material-handling solutions. The company was founded in 1959 and has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1997. Interroll provides system integrators and OEMs with a wide range of platform-based products and services in these categories: Rollers (conveyor rollers), Drives (motors and drives for conveyor systems), Conveyors & Sorters as well as Pallet Handling (flow storage systems). Interroll products and solutions are used in express and postal services, e-commerce, airports, the food & beverage industry, fashion, automotive sectors and many other manufacturing industries. Among the end users are leading brands such as Amazon, Bosch, Coca-Cola, DHL, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Walmart and Zalando. Headquartered in Switzerland, Interroll has a global network of 35 companies with sales of CHF 527.1 million and around 2,300 employees (average number of employees in 2024).

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