A BW Packaging Journey · Barry-Wehmiller

Chicago Europe

Nine days across Italy & France — canals, cathedrals, prosciutto, and the packaging technology that ships the world's food.

July 17 – 25, 2026  •  2 countries  •  5 hotels  •  3 BW sites
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9
Days
6
Cities
2
Countries
5
Hotels
3
BW Sites
~14,600
km traveled
The Route

Follow the journey

Chicago O'Hare to Munich overnight, down to Venice, then a loop through the Veneto, Emilia-Romagna's Food Valley, and westward to Brittany before flying home from Paris. Cities, BW sites and every hotel are pinned — click any pin for details and directions.

City stop BW Packaging site Hotel Transit / airport ✈ animated flight path
Day by Day

The itinerary

Photos load live from Wikimedia for each destination. Overnight stays are noted on each stop.

Where I'm Staying

Hotels, in order

Five stays chained back-to-back from July 18 to 25. Each card has a photo, the mini-map location, and a one-tap Directions button that opens Google Maps.

Flights & Bookings

Every leg & confirmation

Two tickets cover the trip — the transatlantic Chicago ⇄ Paris itinerary and the intra-Europe Bologna → Brest hop that carries you from the Food Valley to Brittany.

Two tickets  ·  United (transatlantic) & Air France (intra-Europe)

Why we're here

BW Packaging on this trip

BW Packaging is Barry-Wehmiller's packaging-machinery business — filling, closing, labeling, end-of-line and fully integrated lines, with a global footprint of roughly 25 manufacturing locations across five continents. Three of its European homes sit right on this itinerary.

Accraply BW Flexible Systems BW Integrated Systems BW Filling & Closing Pneumatic Scale Angelus
BW Packaging site

BW Flexible Systems — Mestrino

📍 Via Trieste 53, Mestrino (Padua) · Tue Jul 22

BWFS🏢 60,816 sq ft🔑 Owned
  • Modernized facility re-opened April 3, 2025 after a ~$3M renovation.
  • Builds VFFS baggers & horizontal flow-wrappers (HFFS).
  • Automated primary & secondary packaging lines with feeders & integration.
  • ~€26.6M 2024 revenue for the Italian operation.
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BW Packaging site

Hema — Quimper

📍 Quimper, Brittany · now BW Filling & Closing · Fri Jul 25

BWFC🏢 30,666 sq ft🔑 Owned
  • Founded in Quimper in 1936 — one of BW's oldest European roots.
  • Invented the first rotary piston filler for sauces & jam in 1939.
  • Fillers for liquid, viscous & semi-solid products — oil, dairy, dressings, meat & fish.
  • 3,500+ machines across 100 countries; joined BW Filling & Closing in 2024.
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BW Packaging site

Angelus S.r.l. — Parma

📍 Via Mercalli 16/A, 43122 Parma · Wed Jul 23

BWFC🏢 22,500 sq ft📄 Leased
  • The Italian arm of Pneumatic Scale Angelus — now part of BW Filling & Closing.
  • Filling & closing machinery — fillers and seamers.
  • Serves beverages, food liquids, sauces, ready meals, wine & spirits and pet food.
  • In Parma's S.P.I.P. industrial park · ☎ +39 0521 795601.
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