BSC Argentina with the Argentine Packaging Institute

Federico Comacchio, vice-president of BSC Argentina, took part in two conversations with Jorge Acevedo, executive director of the Argentine Packaging Institute: a talk at ExpoEnvase 2025 and an interview on the Institute’s podcast, recorded as part of Packaging Day. In both he described a family company that is about to turn one hundred.

“We build liquid filling machines. We are about to turn 100, and I am the fourth generation,” Federico said. The Buratto Comacchio family has been building packaging machinery since 1926 and today, through BSC, is part of a group that includes Stelio Packaging and represents three Italian brands: Duetti Packaging for end-of-line equipment, Technipes for bagging machines and Technowrapp for automatic stretch wrappers. “We try to integrate the whole line to give the customer a complete solution, from start to finish,” he explained, also mentioning the family’s ties to Italy.

Asked by Acevedo what kind of machines BSC builds, Federico said its main market is fertilisers and agrochemicals, “both foaming and viscous products”, with cleaning products — especially corrosive ones such as bleach, acids and detergents — growing fast. “They are complex machines to build because they require specific materials,” he explained. Then come paints, flammable and solvent-based products, for which BSC builds explosion-proof machines, and acids with extreme pH.

The best-selling machine is a filler that handles from half a litre to 20 litres — “that is the flexibility it has” — and the range continues with equipment for containers from 20 to 200 litres and from 200 to 1,000 litres. The company is also moving into flexible packaging, especially Bag in Box, developing machines for products that require aseptic and non-aseptic filling. “Little by little we keep adding, growing and promoting Argentine industry around the world.”

Acevedo pointed out that a machine breakdown calls for fast, responsive service. For Federico, that is exactly the guarantee BSC offers: “Building that trust with the customer takes a lot of work and a lot of time. They need to see you at trade fairs, see that you visit them two or three times a year, that you have a local person who can provide technical service. It takes a very long time to build a name, but it always pays off.”