COMPANY OUTLINE

www.mazzonilb.it

Mazzoni LB S.p.A. Tel +39 0331 356111

Corso Sempione 212, bis Fax +39 0331 684511

21052 Busto Arsizio – ITALY e-mail: sales.soap@mazzonilb.it

Mazzoni headquarter

Who we are?

Mazzoni was founded in 1946 by Mazzoni family and as from 1990 has been associated to the Ballestra Group. The core activity of Mazzoni has always been focused on innovative process technology to produce soap and glycerine.

Mazzoni has supplied more than 2,400 plants in over 130 countries: every year Mazzoni continuous saponification plants produce up

to 4,500,000 tons of liquid soap, and their finishing lines up to 14,000,000 tons of laundry soap and up to 4,500,000 tons of toilet soap. Mazzoni glycerine plants evaporate up to 2,000,000 tons of water and distillate over 200,000 tons of pharmaceutical grade glycerine.

All major multinationals are Mazzoni clients as Procter and Gamble, Colgate, Henkel, PZ Cussons, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever as well as the most important soap manufacturers all over the world.

MAZZONI plants in the World.

Over 2400 process plants in 130 countries

Over 2400 process plants in 130 countries

Mazzoni technologies

Fats and OilsPretreatment

Saponification

Vacuum Drying

Finishing

Glycerine Refining

SGA: Bleaching Plants

SCNT: Continuous Neutral Fats/Oils Saponification PlantsSCT: Continuous Fatty Acids Neutralization PlantsSCT-C: Combined F.A. Neutralization & Drying PlantSSCT: Continu. Neutr. F/O Sapon. without Glycerine extraction

SC+C, SSCT+C: Integrated Saponification/Drying SystemsCL: Laundry Soap Drying PlantsEcodryers: Toilet Soap Drying Plants

LBC: Laundry Soap Finishing LinesLTC: Toilet Soap Finishing LinesSLB: Synthetic Soap Finishing LinesMP: Milling Plodder Finishing Lines

DCA: Spent Soap Lyes Treatment PlantsCSL: Industrial Glycerine PlantsDGA/GR: Pharmaceutical Glycerine Plants

Rim Blocks

RBL: Rim Blocks Manufacturing Lines

Mazzoni technologies

Beside the core soap plant business, Mazzoni has been involved over the year in the design and supply of plants for the production of:

- personal care and cosmetics;

- food processing;

so acquiring and excellent capability to engineer also a wide range of chemical and industrial plants, as well as the relevant offsites facilities (steam, cooling water, power distribution, tank farm, etc.).

Mazzoni shareholding

The Mazzoni shareholding is:80%: Sagittario S.p.A. 10%: Paolo Tovaglieri, Sales Director10%: Enrico Tovaglieri, Technical Director

Sagittario S.p.A. is the holding company which has developed and managed from 1990 up to 2007 the companies:

Ballestra S.p.A./Milan, today Desmet Ballestra S.p.A., world leader in the design and supply of plants for the detergents, surfactants, biodiesel and chemical industries, which presently owns a participation of 20% of Mazzoni;

CMB S.p.A./Rome, today Desmet Ballestra Oleo S.p.A., leader in design and supply of plants for the oleochemical industry, which is fully owned by Desmet Ballestra S.p.A.

Sagittario shareholders still retain important management position in Desmet Ballestra S.p.A.

Mazzoni world presence

Beside its own sale dept which coordinates all the sale activities providing also the necessary technical support, Mazzoni has a network or representative offices, the main ones in Russia and China, and the collaboration of Desmet Ballestra Group worldwide sales network.

China Russia

UK

Sudan

Sri Lanka

Venezuela

South Africa

Nigeria

Pakistan

Poland

Portugal

Algeria

Brazil

Bangladesh

Egypt

Indonesia

Japan

Mexico

Germany

Mazzoni network or representative offices Desmet Ballestra Group sales network

Mazzoni Organization Chart

CEO

Giuseppe di Carpegna

 

Controller     Quality Assurance & IT

     

 

R&D     Customer Service

Ferrari/Montanari    

                             

     

Sales dpt. Engineering dpt. Admin & Finance

P. Tovaglieri E. Tovaglieri E. Imperiali

         

  Sales & Proposal   Project mgt   Admin/H&R

                       

             

  Marketing   Purchase Dpt   Export/Finance

           

     

  Spare Parts   Process Tech   Health & Safety

       

 

  Finish. line Tech

   

 

  Automation Dpt

   

 

  Workshop

   

Mazzoni Personnel

Mazzoni personnel includes 6 senior managers, 61 employees, 31 workers for an overall amount of 98 persons divided as follows.

23

8

69

12

31 9

PM, Tech Dpt., R&DSales & ProposalProcurementSpare parts & Customer ServiceManag., Admin. & Accounting WorkshopFood Division

Mazzoni turnover

€ x 1.000

Mazzoni has constantlymaintained a market share exceeding 50%.

2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

Production Distribution (geographic area)

Mazzoni sells yearly to customers located in over 100 different countries

EUROPE12%

ASIA30%AFRICA

31%

AMER-ICA27%

2007

EUROPE8% ASIA

28%

AFRICA28%

AMERICA36%

2008

EUROPE4%

ASIA39%

AFRICA33%

AMER-ICA24%

2009

Production Distribution (products)

Plants42%

Ma-chinery44%

Spare Parts14%

2007

Plants38%

Ma-chinery

49%

Spare Parts13%

2008

Plants31%

Ma-chinery

55%

Spare Parts14%

2009

Plants46%

Ma-chinery

40%

Spare Parts14%

2010

Research & Process Development

Process and detailed engineering

Feasibility studies

Products testing on Pilot Plants

Equipment fabrication and procurement

Supervision to plant installation and start up

Turn-key projects

Training of operators

Spare parts supply

After sale technical assistance

Plants revamping/upgrading/capacity increase

Project financing

Mazzoni services

· Troubleshooting.

· Plant performance (product quality, energy

consumption, plant operation reliability)

evaluation and optimization.

· Evaluation of plant equipment operating conditions for planned

maintenance (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control).

· Customer’s personnel training.

· Advisory services on new technologies, new equipment available on

the market, improvements of plant operation, safety ...

· Study and proposal for plant revamping and capacity increase.

Mazzoni after sale services

Saponification plants

The Tubular Reactor:

- Static multi tube reactor

- Saponification conditions: pressure (3-3.5 bar) and temperature (135/140 °C) .

-Holding time reduced to 8 min vs. 20/30 min. of the traditional reactor

-Easy formula changeover

-Versatility: the Tubular Reactor can saponify Neutral Fats/Oils and Fatty Acids

-Reduced maintenance and space requirement

39 Units installed world-wide.

R&D - Latest Innovations - Process

Saponification plants

Integrated Toilet Soap Plants “SCT + C” and “SSCT-C” the ideal solution for producing high quality soap noodles from Fatty Acids or from Neutral Oils/Fats (SWING).

The liquid soap is directly fed from the Tubular Reactor to the Vacuum Chamber allowing to manufacture all types of laundry and toilet soap noodles at the required final TFM content with a remarkable energy saving:

11 Units installed world-wide.

R&D - Latest Innovations - Process

Vacuum Dryers

”NO SPRAY” vacuum chamber with tangential soap injection vs. conventional Spray Nozzle system.

• Reduced soap fines formation by 50%

• Improved soap chips quality: less grits

• Overall equipment simplification: minimal maintenance

• Easy operations: all regulations outside the chamber

38 Units installed world-wide.

R&D - Latest Innovations

Soap Drier: VLS (Vapour Liquid Separator)

Pre-concentrate neat soap prior to the vacuum chamber

- 50% recovery of the steam generated in the dryer fro:- Drive the booster- Pre-heat of raw materials- Pre-heat liquid soap

- 40-50% reduction of water requirement to the barometric group

-Reduced fines formation (approx. 40-50%)

VLS is retro-fittable in existing dryers

Over 50 Units installed world-wide.

R&D - Latest Innovations

MRP Multi-refining Plodders

A-one-machine-configuration for toilet soap refining, homogenizing and extrusion substituting two duplex plodders (or rollmill) of conventional lines

• Process of all toilet soap bases (regular, translucent, syndet and combo)

• Quick and easy formulas changeovers

• 15-20% reduced energy requirement

• Reduced maintenance

• Reduced area required

• Reduced capital outlay

15 Units installed world-wide.

R&D - Latest Innovations - Finishing

“DTS” Direct Transfer SystemTo “pitch” discharge the stamped tablets into the pocketed belt of any packaging machine:

-flowpack – cartoners – wrappers

- “ONE TOUCH” transfer system: better finished tablets appearance

- Inbuilt on the stamper frame: simplified and compact unit’s design with easy operation and space saving

- 10-15% Higher production speed vs. solutions with timing systems

- >5% superior overall line’s efficiency

- Reduced capital outlay

R&D Joint development with ACMA.

22 Units installed world-wide

R&D - Latest Innovations - Finishing

• Completed installation of a 200KW Solar plant in Mazzoni roof size to produce 100% of workshop and offices power requirements.

• Ongoing Investment in increase of Mazzoni building heat efficiency as well as machinery cleaning water recovery.

• Plan to mitigate CO2 emissions related to personnel travelling through promoting and financing green projects in developing countries.

Environmentally Sustainable Production