THE BEGINNING: the Roots of an Idea

From his family’s experience in the printing industry, Sergio Bertasi founded B.MATIC S.r.l in 1986, and in a short time developed a series of counter-rises devices designed primarily for the sheet stacks of printing presses. Numerous requests came from important customers throughout the aforementioned Italian industry.

Once a solid reputation had been built up, it was the customers themselves who requested the supply of new sheet-counting machines for stacks and reams so that the quantity of sheets could also be checked later. Other manufacturers of such machines were already present in the global market, but Mr Bertasi decided that the company’s future lay in that direction: B.MATIC began to develop an original and innovative system to distinguish itself from the competition and revolutionise the market.

Dual System Technology

In 1992, the first ‘Protec’ sheet counter was invented and presented, based on the world’s unique technology renamed ‘DualSystem’ capable of counting and dividing even very thick sheets without deforming the edge, directly from the ream. One of the key features of this technology was the top-to-bottom sheet counting, which enabled us to introduce the second decisive innovation.

Some of these old models have been imitated by some of our competitors: for B.MATIC this is nothing but a source of pride because it is confirmation of our technological farsightedness.