Tirelli and Unimac-Gherri merge to enhance automation in home and personal care

Tirelli and Unimac-Gherri have entered a merger process to offer complete and competitive solutions to manufacturers in the home and personal care, chemical, and food sectors. 

The merger aims to tackle new technological and market challenges with greater strength through shared investment in robotics, AI, and platform standardization. 

The combined entity is said to offer integrated and innovative solutions, with an expanded product portfolio and an operational model designed to deliver greater value to customers through efficiency, reliability, and technological synergies. 

The merger streamlines design, manufacturing, and after-sales services under a single leadership, while keeping all plants fully operational and continuing their modernization. It is also touted to strengthen collaboration with global key accounts through a unified commercial structure.

The merger addresses several needs within the sector: efficiency, innovation, and scalability. The personal care market is increasingly demanding automation and smarter manufacturing processes to stay competitive. Tirelli and Unimac‑Gherri are responding to that by combining strengths in robotics, AI, and end-of-line systems.

Automation and innovation 

Tirelli works in filling, capping, and labeling for the home and personal care industry. Meanwhile, Unimac‑Gherri tackles piston filling solutions, twist‑off capping, and both traditional and robotic end-of-line systems, with a specialization in the food sector. Together, the two companies bring decades of engineering expertise, recognized brands, and complementary capabilities, forming an integrated industrial platform.

By merging, the companies can provide a more complete solution for personal care manufacturers, offering filling, capping, labeling, and advanced automation under one umbrella. Personal care companies are increasingly looking to scale their operations and consolidate their supply chains. 

The business move also signals an accelerated focus on innovation, which is becoming more critical in the industry as brands seek to differentiate themselves with new formulations and packaging solutions.

“With this move, Tirelli and Unimac‑Gherri open a new chapter of growth, built on integration, industrial solidity and a shared technological vision: a larger, more structured and better-organized company, designed to consolidate its global presence in key markets, accelerate investment in innovation, and provide customers with a single, even more reliable and competent partner — one capable of supporting them over time with complete solutions and a superior level of service,” says Tirelli.