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ULMA COOPERATIVE POWER CONGLOMERATE BACKING WITH FOCUSED SOLUTIONS At a time when the packaging industry seems overwrought by mergers and acquisitions, processors are concerned about the resulting effects on their respective businesses, from higher prices to a reduced focus on their core needs and interests to the overall sense of stability.  Establishing long-term business relationships with genuine partners is almost impossible when the leadership and business philosophy of a supplier company constantly changes. Taking a cooperative approach - literally, in the sense of collaboration, and figuratively, when it comes to a business structure - with a packaging supplier is a way for processors to ensure stability and simple solutions to their potentially complex problems.  As an integral part of Spain's MONDRAGON network of industrial cooperatives, ULMA offers the power of a conglomerate while understanding and responding to industry-specific needs and demands of those in the meat and poultry business. Leveraging 4,000plus employees across eight ULMA  companies, MONDRAGON provided depth and dimension for powerful resources. ULMA's uniqueness as a cooperative with global and regional (and even local) ties allows the company to tap into the resources and brain trust within the MONDRAGON system, which is based on a business philosophy of trust and social involvement.  Because MONDRAGON has invested so heavily in ULMA -- and ULMA's 1,200 employees with a direct presence in 20 countries as well as distribution partners -- as part of its internationalization of products and services, ULMA is in it for the long-term, and will be in it for the long-term success of its meat and poultry customers. "Today's customers demand complete packaging solutions, upstream and downstream automation as well as diverse formats of packages. ULMA provides a unique range of packaging solutions which is the widest offer in the world," says Juan Ignacio Aguirre, Business Development Director for ULMA. Accordingly, ULMA offers state-of-the-art integrated customer packaging solutions that span filling, secondary packaging, flow-wrapping, form/fill/seal, shrink wrap and vertical sealing, among other capabilities.  A wide range of machinery - along with superior technical support and access to other cooperatives within MONDRAGON that impact meat and poultry packaging - assures that there are custom solutions to every product - and potential challenge.  UPA, the ULMA packaging automation group, will totally automate and/ or integrate products to provide turnkey systems. 

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