Machines

ADVANCED PAPERBOARD CONVERTING System SpA presents Freebox™: a system that enables the automatic production inhouse of cases custom sized to fit the object to be packed, starting from a sheet of corrugated cardboard. No resorting to casemakers, no need for packing case storage facilities, with the creation of sturdier boxes that enable material savings.

Since 1975 C.S.S. Teca-Print, Milan has been importing and selling the pad printing machines and accessories (pads, colors, plates, spare parts) made by Teca-Print AG, Thayngen, Switzerland, and also provides screenprinting equipment, inkjet and heat transfer systems, laser or microdot markers and thermal printing.

P.E. Labellers has provided French Wolberger wine producer two labelers for their new "Crémant" and still wine lines.

Focus on the new technologies shaping the package printing industry. We met Jan Scharfenberg, Technical Manager, DuPont Packaging Graphics, Europe, Middle East and Africa to get news on new technologies that are helping to meet the challenges into the packaging printing industry.

PRB SpA, leading developers of flexible solutions for secondary packaging, launches a complete packaging of new applications, destined to satisfy the most recent market trend, the so-called “packaging on demand”.

Featuring the new color label printer of label web stock: Primera CX1000e, for printing color labels in short runs. Finally small, medium and large food-, beverages-, cosmetics and chemical producing concerns as well as those operating in many other fields can now produce small amounts of color labels for all products produced in limited quantities inhouse.

Active mainly in the sector of palletization, Lancia Srl designs its own installations with particular regard for the machine’s bulk (1.6x2.5 m), flexibility of use and speed of installation and cycle execution.

Completely recyclable pressed cardboard corner pieces constitute L.A.I.M.’s main activity.

Thanks to a joint venture with Sensient Imaging Technologies GmbH, Grafe Advanced Polymers GmbH has managed to combine food coloring and bio-based plastics.

G.N.C. can offer not only packages with a customised design, but also 250 standard packing formats, 150 of which are available on prompt delivery.

Fifty years of activity as a builder of dosing and filling systems justify a clear and well-defined business strategy, which has consolidated Karr Italiana just as it has consolidated its dosing system (the effectiveness and quality of which are proven).

Potential savings in gluing with hotmelt adhesives

The Swiss multinational Robatech is a European leader in the development and production of adhesive application systems, offering practicality, energy conservation and safety, including in the packaging
of furniture and accessories.

 
TREND SETTER producing in a sustainable way, finding the right balance between flexibility and increased productivity: This is the objective of all industrial concerns, to which Siemens offers a valuable contribution of technological knowledge and experience. Inspired by the concept of Optimized Packaging Line, the company offers specific and cutting-edge automation solutions for the packaging…

Knowing the product and the market, a global level service guarantee, state-of-art technology: these the strongpoints of Wittenstein that offers machine builders tailor-made motion control systems.

THE PERFECT SYNC new plant bubble wrap multilayer co-extrusion created by Torninova in cooperation with Elektron uses an Omron architecture run via PC on Ethernet. Result: up to 170 sqm of film/min rewound on coils without glue.

Robatech adhesive applicators, designed specifically for beverage labeling, focus on efficiency and saving.

In this third edition of the “Did you know that?” column, we'll be looking at the subject of transfer and handling; in other words, picking up products from one place and putting them down in another.

Innovative technology developed by Lameplast Group enables the use of different plastics within a single-dose pack. For when one layer is just not enough.

Lightweight, economical, sustainable: a "bundle" of benefits from Krones.
 Krones places the onus on the strapping system LitePac made with the machine EvoLite, presenting it as the first and only "real" transport packaging innovation over the last 30 years. Its originality and effectiveness have been highlighted by an award (the Logistics packaging Oscar), but aboveall by the market approval…