Servotecnica, 45 years of evolution
The company celebrates an important milestone, conquering the packaging industry with its innovative and reliable slip rings
Values and goals. These are the two words Servotecnica has chosen to highlight the importance of a milestone reached in 2025: 45 years in business. Founded in 1980 as a distributor in the motion control industry, the company has been able to keep pace with the times and has developed its products over the years with the aim of providing solutions that can be perfectly integrated with each other. Today Servotecnica designs and manufactures compact and durable slip rings, perfect for applications in the packaging, industrial, medical, robotic and electronic sectors, and available in thousands of standard or ‘custom’ configurations.
This important effort is supported by a close-knit group of more than 50 people. Over the years, the management team has demonstrated its high regard for training new recruits and investing in human capital.
Successful collaborations
At SPS Italia, Servotecnica showcased its latest products, which included the Atom Series Micromotors, a coreless technology for applications that focuses on compactness, power, reliability and precision, and a Robotic Joint with integrated brushless motor, absolute encoder, zero-backlash gearbox and hollow shaft for maximum smoothness, precision and versatility.
Marketing & Product Manager Alessandro Gomarasca outlined the most important solutions for the packaging industry. “Our slip rings”, he explains, “allow us to capture different types of customers in the packaging world and ensure great compatibility with other automation manufacturers. Among our most important recent projects, I would like to highlight our collaboration with Rockwell Automation, lasting almost three years, in which we were the only slip ring manufacturers in their new ArmorKinetix™ systems”.
“Also very important is the work carried out with AMK, which launched a new hybrid drive and cable motor system that simplifies machine construction since there is no longer a ‘cabinet’ and everything is installed on board the machine, resulting in significant savings in both installation and testing”.
Current and future challenges
Gomarasca also helped us identify the main trends of the moment in the packaging industry. “One of the most common requests is to increase production speed. The other most sought-after feature is flexibility: in this sense, having made the machine fully electronically controllable is a major advantage, since mechanical adjustments of guides or other components involved in the format change are no longer necessary”.
Last but not least is the issue of sustainability (ESG), which Servotecnica has always held in high regard despite the low impact of its operations. “We went through a process with the Swiss certification body SQS to obtain ISO 14001. In addition, we have long since digitalised all our processes”. This is further confirmation that, with 45 years of history behind them, Servotecnica is well aware of the challenges and opportunities of the future.
