Machines and equipment

After a first year of activity, having delivered 60 inter-company courses, attended by approximately 1,200 professionals, the Scuola per i Beni Strumentali (SBS) of Ucima and Acimac resumes its training activities.

WH Leary with its offices in Basildon, Essex, UK is now the official and authorized supplier of Robatech equipment in the UK and Ireland. Accordingly, all Robatech customers in the UK and Ireland should contact Leary for parts, service and support for their existing Robatech equipment as well as for enquiries about new equipment.

World premier at Interpack for the new generation of packaging systems proposed by the Cama, that has developed a different and original design concept. The result? Greater loading efficiency and flexibility with a magnetic carrier system and robotized loading island in co-flow with a patented software anti-collision system.

PACKAGING Reduction of costs of print forms, flexibility in the processing of the substrates and a better environmental balance: the advantages of variable format web offset printing on Muller Martini’s VSOP printing presses.

Spark SP-20000M-PMCL and Spark SP-20000C-PMCL by JAI are the two new industrial video cameras proposed by Image S: 20 megapixels with global shutter and a speed of 30 frames per second at full resolution.

ReeR presents a solution, performant and flexible, for monitoring speed in different conditions and applications. It is called SV MRO and is simply to be configured and run in complete safety.

A complete package of 3D software enables new levels of productivity in all industrial sectors to be achieved.

Double Italo-American open house at Uteco, which presents its Crystal New Series globally: a totally equipped flexo printing machine specifically designed for flexible packaging.

Digital plates with textured surface for maximum print quality at high speeds

The latest Mondi Packaging proposal guided by the principle of sustainability is a "hybrid" paper-based bag, biodegradable and compostable, which offers superior protection thanks to the inner layer of biodegradable film, required for applications in the food and pet food industry.

NewAir IB® by Sealed Air Europe is challenged by one of the strongest men in the world, in the sequence in the series "will it break?" (link youtu.be/M43BCO7tzbM). Graham Hicks pulls his 13-ton truck over a strip of air bubble NewAir IB ® packing, and of course, it doesn’t break. Convincing and entertaining.

Many important contracts in 2013 for Senzani Brevetti (Faenza, RA), historic name in the field of technology for automatic packaging.

Datalogic has installed a NVS9000™ brand system in the distribution center of a major French retailer, with advantages in terms of accuracy and reliability, and reducing times and costs.

Unilever adopts across Europe the pallet pooling managed by Chep, which thus extends to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Scandinavia. The increase of traffic is about 70% and replaces the use of white pallets, in addition to reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

The components for the food industry in direct contact with food. if made of plastic material, must conform to the requirements of the last EU Regulation 10/2011.

Realized by ReeR, the new Micron sensor is ideal in the measurement or two-dimensional detection of objects in transit on conveyor system applications.

Robatech has managed to combine speed with efficiency and wear resistance in the SpeedStar™ Diamond applicator guns.

ASK THE EXPERT Processing automation, energy, timed cams, open and modular automation architecture, soft automation, service: in the column on ItaliaImballaggio called “Ask to the Expert”, Luca Stanzani (Packaging and Processing Bosch Rexroth Italia) will provide answers for the specific problems that the readers will tell them about.
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The basic pleasure of elegance and excellence: Sappi Fine Paper Europe and the German group Achilles (finishing) work together to make something that stirs the heart. What results is “animi” by Julia John, a young perfumer who has managed to make reality out of an idea originally conceived in kindergarten.

Shine and whiteness are indisputable strengths of  high end packaging; in this regard, Metsä Board proposes two liners that can make a difference on the shelf: Carta Selecta and Modo Northern Light.