ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Depart, Alapala Holding’s group company for milling spare part sales and after-sales services, is expanding its solutions to include vertical packaging in partnership with Italy-based HBTS Packaging.

Depart will manage the sales and marketing of HBTS’s vertical packaging machines in all Africa, Far East, Middle East and Southeast Asia.

“By following the modern packaging technologies closely, we support our customers flawless production with the same precision as in the milling field,” said Cengiz Tiryakioğlu, general manager at Depart. “With the assurance of Depart, we meet our customers with reliable, customizable systems according to their needs.”

 With its worldwide distribution network, Depart is rapidly advancing in the packaging field.

HBTS, based in Torino, Italy, is the integrated packaging systems division within the DM Packaging Group. It is a major supplier of integrated packaging technology to the food and beverage, bakery and biscuits, chocolate and confectionery, frozen foods, pharma and consumer goods industries.