societ per azioni industry mechanical engineering founded lucca italy 1966 1966 founder fabio perini headquarters lucca italy area served worldwide key people stefano di santo ceo products paper making and tissue converting industrial machinery services machine and production line installation ; training ; overhauling ; engineering solutions and replacement kits for obsolete parts reconditioning and commercializing of second hand tissue converting equipment . number of employees 566 2011 parent k rber divisions k rber process solutions website www.fabioperini.com fabio perini s.p.a. is an italian engineering company specialized in machine design and manufacturing of industrial machinery for the paper making industry and the tissue converting industry . fabio perini s.p.a. is part of the international technology group k rber and belongs to its division k rber process solutions . the management holding of the k rber group k rber ag is located in hamburg germany . contents 1 brief history 2 history 2.1 fabio perini and the company rising 2.2 fabio perini s.p.a. 2.3 entering the k rber group 3 products 4 publishing activity 5 see also 6 references 7 external links brief history edit fabio perini s.p.a. is a mechanical engineering company established in lucca italy in 1966 by the inventor entrepreneur fabio perini . the company is specialized in design and manufacturing of industrial machinery for the paper making industry and the tissue converting industry . based in lucca the company has eleven overseas branches located in three continents europe america and asia . 1 since 1994 fabio perini s.p.a. is part of the german technology group k rber and belongs to the division k rber process solutions . history edit fabio perini and the company rising edit fabio perini starts his activity in 1960 when he invents a machinery for the automatic cut of tissue paper . in 1966 he founds his company the fabio perini with a view to designing new engineering technologies and manufacturing industrial machinery for the tissue converting industry . with the change and the improvement of lifestyles the italian tissue industry raises noticeably during the 1960s . this fact favours fabio perini s company which grows up until 1973 when the company is turned into a societ per azioni becoming the fabio perini s.p.a. . fabio perini s.p.a. edit under the new form of societ per azioni fabio perini s.p.a. meets with a phase of international expansion . in the 1970s new offices are opened in europe and america two selling offices in europe paris 1974 ; d sseldorf 1976 one selling office in the united states green bay wisconsin 1978 at the green bay engineering company and one manufacturing plant in latin america joinville brazil 1975 . during the 1980s and the 1990s further branches are opened in asia yokohama 1984 ; hong kong 1985 ; fuji 1991 europe london 1984 and united states miami 1990 . in about 20 years thanks to many original design patents 2 the company fabio perini transformed itself from a one man business to a multinational enterprise able to cover up the 75 % of the worldwide market of the paper making industry and the tissue converting machinery . as acknowledgement of his entrepreneurship in 1991 the founder fabio perini is ordered knight of the italian republic under the order of merit for labour . 3 entering the k rber group edit in 1994 the founder fabio perini sells his company to the german multinational group k rber . fabio perini s.p.a. headquarters remains in lucca italy . after that the growing of the company goes on ; three new overseas branches are opened in asia two selling offices singapore 1994 ; seoul 1995 and one manufacturing plant shanghai 2002 . in 2003 perini engraving s.r.l. is opened in lucca perini engraving is a division of the fabio perini s.p.a. group specialized in the design and manufacturing of customized embossing rolls for tissue production . products edit some of the machinery designed and manufactured by fabio perini s.p.a. are toilet roll and kitchen towel converting lines ; table napkin converting equipment ; embossers laminators printing units ; slitter rewinders for the production of industrial rolls ; customized embossing rolls for tissue production . publishing activity edit since 1979 fabio perini s.p.a. publishes the perini journal a six monthly review completely dedicated to the tissue paper industry . see also edit italy portal companies portal list of italian companies fabio perini k rber process solutions perini journal toilet roll table napkin kitchen towel embossing tissue paper pulp and paper industry references edit http www.fabioperini.com en contacts http v3.espacenet.com searchresults locale en v3 & in fabio perini & st advanced & compact false & db epodoc & submitted true http www.cavalieridellavoro.it cavaliere.php numero brevetto 2192 external links edit fabio perini s.p.a. official website k rber ag official website procter & gamble chooses fabio perini technology retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fabio perini s.p.a. & oldid 734092530 categories engineering companies of italyindustrial machine manufacturerscompanies established in 19661966 establishments in italyitalian brandscompanies based in tuscany navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 02 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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