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Astro Group srl
Closing technologies.
Quality must have no boundaries.
Our history is made up of investment in people, technology and machinery.
Innovation, commitment and passion are the qualities we apply in every way possible to designing your product.
Our business began in Milan in 1924 with Alluminio Mauceri, a historic company with an aluminium foundry and rolling works for the production of closures, added to after the war with a plastic closures and pourers department.
By the early XXI century, through mergers and takeovers, moves and extensions to production sites and considerable investment in machinery a modern company had been created with a new corporate structure appreciated by a prestigious clientele throughout the world for its quality and service.
The dedication and passion of a young, highly-motivated staff are today on hand to help customers find ever new graphic and technical solutions benefiting from agile, fully-independent in-house facilities.
Eco-sustainability
Astro has always dedicated particular attention to the protection of product quality through ongoing research into new technologies and a real commitment to environmental sustainability.
Sourcing is carried out entirely from selected, tested and certified producers, while all the personnel have been involved in developing the following program of shared goals:
- Separated disposal of all recyclable waste in compliance with current regulations;
- Constant monitoring of emissions into the atmosphere;
- Pursuit of environmentally-friendly process innovation;
- Testing of new energy-saving solutions;
- Constantly improving the protection of the environment by maintaining a clean and tidy workplace;
- Organizing training courses in the prevention of pollution.
The production cycle
An in-house graphic studio prepares artworks to meet the requirements of customers in keeping with bottle and label layout.
In order to achieve the set target, exclusive solutions may be proposed at this stage in terms of graphics (distortion printing, lithographic and offset printing), materials (photosensitive and metallic varnishes, glitter) or processing (hot-foil, pad printing, punching).
The lithographic and offset printing department is supported by pre-printing and photo etching facilities using cutting edge techniques to prepare immediately printing plates and tools.
Production is performed using intelligent, automatically-controlled machines, because the best results always come from preparation, committed operators and reliable machinery.
The all new-generation machinery includes coating lines and lithographic printing lines, drawing presses, side decoration and edging lines, and cameras controlling the entire assembly process.
Plastic inserts are all injection-moulded in an adjoining factory.
Process control and traceability are absolute priorities in our production facilities.
The hallmark of our product is contributing to improving the quality of the work of our customers.
Incoming checks are performed on all raw materials, and the entire production process is monitored from fixed stations to obtain a capsule “history” and traceability of all the components.
Samples taken at the end of production are partly subjected to destructive testing, and partly kept as counter samples (black box).
