The Bradbury Co. Inc. announces the addition of Bradbury Group Italy S.r.l. The acquisition is consistent with the growth strategy of The Bradbury Group and expands their product offering to include continuous PUR/PIR insulated sandwich panel equipment. The Bradbury Group employs over 600 people and is present in 14 countries on five continents.

Bradbury Group Italy S.r.l. (BGI), located in Tribano, Italy, will conduct its manufacturing operations from a 214,000-square-foot facility that includes sales, engineering, machining, assembly and testing of equipment. Tony Green has been appointed the president of BGI after serving 18 years as the managing director of Bradbury International UK Ltd. BGI will serve a wide range of industries including metal building, cold storage, HVAC, garage door, entry door and injection molding.

“Bradbury Group Italy will utilize the assets of Industrie Pu.Ma. to continue their tradition as the world leader in insulated panel technology while utilizing our existing Group locations to serve a geographically diverse customer base. We are pleased to be involved with the highly trained and very competent staff of Industrie Pu.Ma. who have joined us at BGI,” said David Cox, President and COO of The Bradbury Group. “Our intentions are to use our exclusive right to Industrie Pu.Ma. engineering to service and support their existing customer’s and the installed equipment base. Our investment in the sandwich panel arena started with the acquisition of Bradbury Group Australia with the production of solid core sandwich panel EPS and mineral wool laminating equipment and now follows the natural progression to continuous PUR/PIR automated equipment by BGI. Our customers can be confident in the ability of our global sales, engineering and service teams to proactively support their continuous and discontinuous systems.”

Tony Green, managing director-BGI, commented: “Having worked with Industrie Pu.Ma. on three prior projects in North America, our Group is well aware of the superior technology they design into these continuous systems. Combine this with Bradbury’s history of manufacturing insulated panel lines for the past three decades and this is a win for our customers. BGI has already been successful in securing new business in Europe with many additional opportunities around the corner. Our Group’s sales, engineering and service teams are equipped to meet the growth objectives set forth by the owners and we intend to add more employees to our employment base in Tribano to further support our targets.”