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SMI strengthens its presence in East Africa
Thanks to increased international trade, in recent years, Kenya and the East African region have seen significant economic growth and, consequently, increased demand for efficient beverage complete bottling and packaging line solutions. | |||
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| The SMI Machinery East Africa branch will employ three key figures to begin supporting local customers, who in the last years have turned to the SMI Group for the installation of modern bottling and packaging systems: Vishal Gupta (Managing Director), Giorgio Bonafede (Operations Director), and a service technician. The staff will soon be expanded to include sales, spare parts sales, and technical support personnel to meet the growing demands of the East African market. | |||
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| The headquarters of the new SMI subsidiary is located in Nairobi, in the Parklands neighborhood, a central and easily accessible location. The branch has a spare parts stock for the first support for all African customers. | |||
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| For any request for information on SMI machine series or after-sales services, you can contact: | |||
SMI Machinery East Africa Limited Vishal Gupta Giorgio Bonafede | |||
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| We take this opportunity to remind you that the team from SMI S.p.A headquarters stays at your disposal for any need: Fabio Sisimbro (Sales Director) Omar Bautista Zamora (After-Sales Service Manager) Sarah Nava (Spare Parts Manager) | |||
| Thank you for your trust. SMI S.p.A. | |||

The European Regulation 679/2016 (GDPR) on the protection of personal data has been fully applicable since May 25th, 2018. This is an important goal, because it lays down rules relating to the processing of personal data for all Countries within the Union. Every company of the SMI Group planned a series of activities, assets or operational modes to comply with the regulation and put into practice the protection of personal data. Here is a list of actions taken to comply with the European Regulation and our policy on personal data processing.
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Lawfulness of processing
All activities relating to personal data processing shall be lawful (consent, contract obligations, vital interests of the data subject or of third parties, compliance with legal obligations to which the controller is subject, public interest or exercise of official authority, legitimate interest pursued by the controller or by third parties).
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Information document
The information statement has been improved and updated to the new regulations (art. 13 and 14 GDPR).
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Rights of the data subjects (right of access, right to erasure-right to be forgotten, right to restriction of processing, right to object, right to data portability)
Technical and organization measures have been adopted to ensure the data subject's exercise of his rights and to meet the data subject requirements.
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Controllers, processors
Based on the new principle of “accountability”, SMI Group organization was re-defined, in order to proactively ensure integral compliance with the Regulation.
Redefinition of the role of data processors and service suppliers whose activity implies personal data processing.
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Risk of data processing; accountability measures taken by controllers and processors (Impact assessment, record of processing activities, security of processing, data breach)
The “Conformity document”, including records of data processing activity, plans, adopts and demonstrates all technical and organizational measures taken to adequately perform the data processing activities and specifies the necessary procedures to be adopted to notify data breach.
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Transfer of personal data to international organizations
Smi Group adheres to the general principles and guarantees concerning the transfer of personal data to third Countries.
The Controller is:
SMI S.p.A.
Head office: Via Carlo Ceresa, 10 - 24015 San Giovanni Bianco (BG) - ITALIA
P.I.: 04471940165 - C.F.: 03942700166 - R.E.A.: 421708
For further information, write to: privacy@smigroup.net
According to the European Regulation 679/2016, the data subject is entitled to exercise the rights set forth in the Regulation.
The integral version of art. 15; 16; 17; 18; 20; 21; 77 of the European Regulation is attached to this document.
In order to exercise your rights, please send the application form duly filled in to the Controller's address.
SMI S.p.A. con Unico Socio
Società sottoposta a direzione e coordinamento da SMIGROUP S.p.A.
Società appartenente al GRUPPO IVA SMI INDUSTRIES
Sede amministrativa e Unità produttiva:
Via Carlo Ceresa, 10 - 24015 San Giovanni Bianco (BG) - ITALIA
Tel. +39 0345 40.111 - Fax: +39 0345 40.209 - www.smigroup.it
C.F. 03942700166 - P. IVA IT04471940165 - R.E.A. 421708
Iscr.Reg.Imprese 03942700166 - Cap. Soc. € 5.000.000 i.v.
Sede legale: Via Monte Grappa, 7 - 24121 Bergamo (BG) - ITALIA