Machines

Available late 2016, SimSci Schneider Electric Online is the first cloud software platform for design-, simulation, process optimization solutions and training for the same available in the “as a service” mode.

At the Mechatronic Forum of 12 October last, result of the synergy between Gruppo Meccatronica belonging to ANIE Automazione and Messe Frankfurt Italia, Festo intervened on how information technology and telecommunications are combining to change the way factories look and the way they work.

For a leading manufacturer of adhesive tapes, Lancia Srl has created an automatic palletiser to be inserted at the end of the line.

20 years in business alongside the main players of the food sector have made PRL Tecnosoft a point of reference for the design, construction and installation of transport systems, from the single conveyor belt to entire automated end of line solutions.

Herrmann Ultraschall manufactures machines, generators and sonotrodes for the ultrasonic welding of thermoplastic components, flexible packaging materials and “non-wovens” (in Italy at the Tech Center Herrmann Ultrasonics Srl Modena).

To support safe, dynamic and efficient handling in the packaging industry, Schmalz presented the new SPB2 round suction cup with 2.5 folds, that can be used with cardboard box and tray erectors, for example, which require particularly high suction cup stroke, dynamic performance and wear resistance.

Advanced solutions for the food industry from Leister Technologies Italia (subsidiary of Swiss multinational Leister*), which provides the latest generation of hot air equipment.

VOLPAK strives to innovate and respond to the continuous growth in flexible packaging and, to this end, is committed to expand the successful range of SI Series machines by developing the new SI-440 model, which will be officially presented during 2017.

Specialized in the design and marketing of capsule fillers and end-of-line solutions, the Bolognese firm MG2 recently inaugurated inside its premises three “cleanrooms”: an important investment,  guaranteeing a safe working environment that will enable the range of tests achievable for pharma to be extended.

Rittal quality and service for excellence in packaging

Comek’s star solution presented at Macfrut 2016 was the most recent version of its line of multihead weighers for fresh fruit and vegetables, with a polished AISI 304 stainless steel frame and central monoblock body.

Massilly’s historic distributor in Italy, Verimec, is presenting the concern’s latest lithographed metal boxes for various markets, from food to household products.

The range Rulli Rulmeca brought to Cibus Tec for processing (from the packaging to the logistics of fruit and vegetables, milk and dairy products, meat and fish ...) includes its motorized drum units.

At the request of a renowned food company based in the Middle East, Altech has created a system for applying large-format labels to rectangular plastic or glass bottles.

The most recent digital label printing and finishing solutions presented by New Solution at Drupa in Düsseldorf garnered lively interest from operators in attendance. The company is now debuting at Viscom in Milan, offering its line of NS systems using Memjet technology, designed to guarantee speed, precision and reliability.

For Cibus Tec 2016 Etipack chose to show visitors a representative selection of its wide range of products, all of which are designed and made at the concern’s two Italian facilities of Cinisello (MI) and Soncino (CR). Etipack is unique among Italian and international operators in that it has managed to integrate different approaches to product identification: a deep-rooted knowhow in industrial…

This year, as usual, P.E. Labellers and Packlab will take part together to Cibus Tec (from October 25 to 28, 2016), and they will show two of their labelling machines: Maya by P.E. Labellers, and Compact by Packlab.

Videojet Technologies have launched the new Flex Solvent ink for their Thermal Ink Jet (TIJ) range of printers.

The company Babbi (Bertinoro, FC) has been producing cones, wafers and semi-finished products for ice creams since 1952.

Elabora Srl has been creating innovative software solutions for SMEs since 1987, and today the concern is divided into four divisions: software development, basic assistance, senior consulting and systems.