Studio Clivio
Technical and contractual advisory for the bottling industry
The firm
Since 1996 Studio Clivio has advised the beverage industry on everything that concerns a bottling line: its purchase, its valuation, its relocation, its contract.
The firm works alongside companies installing a new line and companies that need to place a used one. When a multinational group replaces a plant, the line taken out almost always has years of production ahead of it: it has to be valued, sold, dismantled, shipped and put back into service in another factory, often in another country. The firm has been doing this work for thirty years, with associates across Europe and beyond.
Technical and legal expertise are not split between separate offices. The same team that values a machine negotiates its price, drafts the contract, handles the documentary credit and the payment, prepares the customs and tax documentation and follows the site through to handover. For the client this means a single point of contact from the start of the operation to the end.
Order and precision are the standard the firm works to, and the one it asks to be judged by.
Services
- New lines
- Advice to the company investing in a new line: definition of specifications, technical and economic comparison of offers, negotiation with manufacturers, supply and installation contract, review of acceptance tests through to final acceptance of the plant.
- Valuation of used lines
- Appraisal of complete lines and individual machines, in operation or already shut down. The valuation starts from the site inspection: condition, running hours, formats, technical documentation, conformity. The result is a reasoned value that can be used in a negotiation or in an investment decision.
- Relocation and re-industrialisation
- Finding the buyer and managing the whole operation for the lines that multinational groups retire and replace: dismantling, packing, transport, reassembly and return to service at the destination plant, inside and outside the European Union.
- Negotiation and contracts
- Conduct of the negotiation and drafting of the contracts that underpin the operation: sale and purchase of machinery, supply and installation, works contracts, agency and brokerage mandates, non-disclosure and non-circumvention agreements, international contracts.
- Documentary credits and international payments
- Management of documentary credits and international payments: choice of instrument, definition of terms, checking of documents through to collection. Payment guarantees protecting both seller and buyer.
- Customs and tax
- Customs and tax treatment of sales and transfers of plant inside and outside the European Union: delivery terms, export and origin documents, VAT formalities.
- Site management
- Organisation of the dismantling and installation site: plant access procedures, documentation for contractors and personnel, coordination of crews, relations with the client through to the handover certificate.
- Disputes
- Management of disputes arising from supplies, acceptance tests and payments, with the aim of settling them before they reach court: assessment of the position, technical and documentary reconstruction, negotiation with the counterparty. If a dispute does go to court, the defence is entrusted to the external lawyers who work with the firm, alongside those who have followed the operation from the start.
Engineering
A relocated line is never rebuilt as it was. The building, the formats and the utilities all change: the layout is the document on which the feasibility of the operation is decided.
The firm’s engineering is entrusted to first-rate professionals: survey of the destination plant, line layout, integration of machines from different manufacturers, checks on footprint, flows and utilities.
The same work precedes the installation of a new line, when the client wants an opinion on the proposed project that is independent of the supplier.
- 1Preform feed
- 2Blow moulder
- 3Filler and capper block
- 4Fill level and cap inspection
- 5Labeller
- 6Accumulation table
- 7Shrink wrapper with shrink tunnel
- 8Handle applicator
- 9Palletiser
- 10Stretch wrapper
- 11Pallet labelling and exit to warehouse
- 12High-pressure compressor
Illustrative diagram of a PET line, not to scale. It does not reproduce an existing plant.
Team
Every assignment is handled personally by the founder.
For specialist matters the firm relies on external associates, each responsible for their own field.
Engineering is entrusted to first-rate professionals. Inspections, site work and on-the-spot assistance rely on a network of associates across Europe and beyond.
External associates of the firm
- Fabrizio Colli, lawyer
- Civil and tax litigation
- Stefano Gennari, lawyer
- Employment law
- Michele Larini
- Risk management and insurance
- Walter Amatobene
- Customs, taxation, documentary credits
References
In thirty years the firm has worked for multinational groups in the beverage industry, in Italy and abroad.
References are provided on request, within the limits of the confidentiality the firm guarantees to every client.
Founder
Alessandro Clivio
Born in Parma in 1966, he graduated in law and trained at a prominent law firm in the city.
He then chose management: he completed several master’s programmes, in Italy and abroad, and specialised in the bottling industry.
In 1996 he founded the firm, which he has led ever since and which turned thirty in 2026.
He is executive advisor to Schneider Industries.
His distinctive strength is the ability to negotiate and to mediate between parties so that disputes are avoided. It is the field in which he has gained his deepest experience, together with an extensive network of contacts across the industry that gives him direct access to decision-makers.
Contact
- Telephone
- +39 0521 488012
- Certified email (PEC)
- studio@pec.clivio.com
- Office
- Via Luigi Einaudi 10
43123 Parma, Italy