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A technological partner for the future of packaging

IMA TT is a division of IMA Group based in Italy producing innovative packaging lines for conventional cigarettes and Next Generation Products. Thanks to its extensive experience in the tobacco industry and to the solid support of the IMA Group, the company guarantees efficiency and reliability throughout the entire design, engineering and manufacturing process.
The strength of the company lies in its electronic machines, which are easy to use, friendly to maintain, flexible when changing between different packet formats and have a small footprint.
Today IMA TT is a preferred supplier of the tobacco multinationals as well as of independent players in the industry, for both conventional cigarettes and NGPs, with more than 100 complete lines already delivered and running at speeds in excess of 400ppm.

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Flexibility

The quality of being able to change or be changed easily according to the situation

IMA TT was born flexible. In the beginning, the project started as a startup named GIMA TT and year after year, it grew up faster and faster.
Everything began in 2009 with few brave people, who believed in the possibility of building a new concept of machines and lines for tobacco market. Going beyond the idea, typical of manufacturing industries, of “everything has to be mechanic”, the designers focused their attention on electronic systems. Thanks to that, the company motto immediately started to be “flexibility”, focusing on the possibility of changing formats easily and in a very short time.
This allowed IMA TT to pass from being a startup to a specialized division of IMA Group today, with the power and the knowledge
to manage very complex projects and develop every day new flexible solutions.
Modularity

The quality of being composed to make something more complex

The company, since the very first months after its birth, grew fast thanks to its engineers that, coming from different industrial fields, brought their know-how and knowledge. The idea of designing and building something able to be “fluid” and easy to move, to be changed and to be updated, is really linked to the philosophy of modularity. Starting from the first machine, all IMA TT ones can also be considered as single modules able to run in a stand-alone configuration.
Everything starts from the market’s request: machines always compact, easy to be moved and able to live in different layout configurations.
Modularity

The ability to produce original and unusual ideas, or to make something new or imaginative

Last but not least, the need to be creative. The target that IMA TT wants to reach is to be competitive in a very closed market. To do that, from the beginning of the start-up project to the current days, IMA TT was born thinking out of the box. Considering the market trends and leaning on IMA Group know-how in automated and electronic machines, the company decided to launch something new: a line able to change according to the creativity of its designers and to the customer’s request.
Our machines are able to connect these two worlds in a creative way.

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The market segments we focus on

Conventional Tobacco Products

NGP (Next Generation Products)

Straws

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High-Speed Packaging for Cigarettes

IMA TT packaging lines are designed to handle a wide variety of products, accommodating different shapes and sizes.
Over the years, IMA TT has developed extensive expertise in producing increasingly complex packet formats.
Our flexibility enables the production of packets with diameters ranging from UltraSlim to King Size, and cigarette lengths from 35 mm to 100 mm, with collations from 10 to 50 cigarettes.

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Advanced Technologies for Next-Generation Products

Smoking habits have evolved significantly over the years. Today, consumers are seeking new and alternative solutions, and the tobacco industry is adapting to meet these changing demands. This shift has led to the rise of Next Generation Products (NGPs). With its flexible platform of packaging machines, IMA TT leverages the extensive expertise of the IMA Group across multiple industries to position itself as a leading provider of assembly, filling, packaging, and end-of-line solutions for NGPs.

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An exSTRAWrdinary come back to the future

By the 1960s, the rise of plastic marked a turning point, pushing paper straws into near-obsolescence.
Since 2021, regulations are limiting single-use plastics and becoming increasingly widespread: the shift away from plastic straws has become both timely and necessary.
To cope with this need, IMA developed a high-speed paper straw forming and wrapping line producing spiral straws, satisfying every need while maintaining an outstanding quality level.

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