Cosmopharma

The Aptar group recently acquired the company Reboul, which specialises in metal packaging, particularly lipstick packaging, and all the associated processes.

For over 35 years, TGM - Tecnomachines Srl has been designing and manufacturing automatic tube filling machines for filling and closing tubes, as well as automatic cartoning machines for packaging tubes, blisters, bottles, cartridges, jars and lipsticks.

Antares Vision,a multinational producer of visual inspection systems, track & trace systems and smart data management, has signed an agreement with international pharmaceutical group Recordati.

Bormioli Pharma, a leading producer of glass and plastic pharmaceutical packaging, has announced a call for startups on the theme of sustainable packaging for the pharmaceutical sector.

Tekni-Plex has purchased Italian healthcare packaging company Lameplast SpA from Milan-based private equity firm Aksìa Group. Lameplast will become part of Tekni-Plex’s global Tekni-Films business.

Serialization systems and European legislation.
The obligation to adhere to the standards required by the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD)  started on 9 February, meaning it’s serialization time for the European pharmaceutical products market. MG2's technological response.

An agreement for the transfer of the majority of shares of Tiposervice (Calenzano-FI) to the Bologna-based paper converting company Renografica, led by the Baccolini family, was signed on 10 June.

Aptar Group (Illinois) has acquired two leading pharma analytical services companies, Nanopharm Ltd. and Gateway Analytical LLC, for a combined enterprise value of approximately $50 million.

Industry 4.0: reflections emerged from the comparison with some protagonists of the SMART area of Cosmopack. The word goes to Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini Group (Supply of complete lines and machines for packaging pharmaceutical and cosmetics products).

Our excursus on Industry 4.0 starts with a company in some ways anomalous in the SMART area of Cosmopack: in fact Nastri-Tex does not produce "hard" machines for manufacturing cosmetics, but provides a fundamental consumable for creating make-up and therefore essential to the success of the "packaging system" as a whole.

According to Franco Comoli, president of CMI Industries, speaking of Industry 4.0 means talking about rules and methods to implement digital end-to-end processes, with the aim of increasing productivity and controlling costs, and this applies as much to the machine manufacturer as to the user.

The functions of Industry 4.0, within FT System, and of the Arol group of which the company is a part, have been implemented following two main directions: the first is to integrate the inspection and control systems with the other machines in the line to optimize their operation; the second is aimed at monitoring the functioning of individual machines to retrieve information for predictive…

To celebrate its "twenty years of Cosmopack", Omas Tecnosistemi has done things on a big scale. In addition to presenting the most recent developments of mixers and tube filling machines, an automatic monoblock for filling mascara and lipgloss and a monoblock for perfumes with roll-on, the company made a significant contribution to the Factory 2019 "NO-CO- no compromise" (where, together with…

The evolution of ELECTRIC: Thus IDM Automation Srl presented itself at the 2019 edition of Cosmopack, bringing to the fair the e-MF302, a fully electric plastic and glass bottle filling machine, which integrates two Mitsubishi scara robots, one dedicated to loading and one to unloading of the bottles.

The 4.0 of Italian manufacturers. Dossier realized with the contribution of Nastri Tex, Marchesini Group, CMI, IDM Automation, Omas Tecnosistemi, FT System. By Stefano Lavorini, Luciana Guidotti and Chiara Giannangeli.

Strategic acquisitions give further impetus to Marchesini Group's rapid expansion strategies in cosmetics packaging.

With an overall increase in attendance of 10% and a significant growth of foreign operators, the sixth edition of Pharmintech Exhibition - an event organized by BolognaFiere - has brought to light the excellence of supplies in the Life Science fiel

Stora Enso launches packaging solutions for luxury products, cosmetics and foodstuffs based on bio-composites derived from wood, alternatives to plastic packaging.

Nestlé is in negotiations with a consortium led by the funds EQT Partners and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for the sale of the Nestlé Skin Health division.

A globally recognized manufacturer specializing in the production of bottle unscramblers, orientators, puck inserters, filling lines, cappers, depuckers, Ronchi Mario SpA has recently developed BETEL Δ 4-EVO, a robotic bottle unscrambler without format change.