Packaging

In 2011, the famous French Champagne producer G.H. MUMM bought a labelling machine being the top of P.E. Labellers’ range, i.e. a labeller of modular design equipped with five stations being installed on a carriage and working simultaneously, as well as a non-stop system that allows the highest operativeness, productivity and effectiveness level to be achieved.

Recyclable pressed cardboard corners (flat and ridged) represent the core business of L.A.I.M., based in Santa Maria a Monte (PI), which also makes separators and medium-range corrugated cardboard (canneté) for packaging.

To enable juices consisting of sacs, fibres, fruit chunks or pulp to be filled as gently as possible, Krones rigorously separates the juice from the fruit content itself, both in the process engineering for thermal treatment and in the filling technology downstream.

On the sidelines of the event centred on offset printing and food packaging safety (read more), we met up with the CEO of Sun Chemical Italia, Fabio Deflorian, for an update on the market and on packaging ink technology. And we discovered that, even in the packaging world, there is still much need for clarity and coherence. Stefano Lavorini

Creates and manufactures accessories to decorate and customize perfumery and cosmetics products.

Stiavelli - historic brand and packaging division of Pavan Group - has enriched its high speed pasta packaging systemwith the new 20-head multihead weigher and introduced on the SVMC continuous packaging machine an automatic reel change system using double sided tape.

More than satisfactory balance of Marchesini Group’s attendance at Hispack.

For fity years Karr Italiana has been producing volumetric filling and metering machines most of all for the food industry.

The Italian packaging machinery manufacturers have posted a 2011 turnover of more than 4,300 million euro. Forecasts are cautious for the current year. In view of the slowdown in the last few months of 2011, the projections for 2012 are in line with the previous year’s turnover levels.

Quick workshops and machines, many machines: at Achema, MG2 will be organizing live venues to illustrate the hi-tech content of its new solutions. Spotlight on MultiNETT (System for measuring in-process net weight) and the GRP robopalettizer, an absolute preview.

At Pharmapack 2012, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) launched several new resins increasing its already substantial range of thermoplastics to meet the strict standards of the medical field.

At the Gerhard Schubert GmbH trade fair stand at Achema in Hall 3.1, Stand G27, the company demonstrates a TLM packaging line for the first time which is so flexible that it can be used to produce batch sizes of one.

PackLab, part of the P.E. Labellers group, is specialized in the production of pressure sensitive labeling systems and provides tailored solutions to meet any application needs.

Karr Italiana Srl, specialized in the design and creation of volumetric filling machines and units, announces an important new feature concerning their entire range of pneumatic or motorized brushless dosing pumps.

The WITTENSTEIN washdown gear reducers have been designed for all applications that require strict hygienic conditions, as in the pharmaceutical or food sector in which the components are often subjected to repeated washings, at times performed with high pressure jets at given temperatures.

Prevent irreparable damage, minimize costs and maintenance time, maximize uptime... All this can be done monitoring a machine and registering the physical parameters indicative of its state of health, such as for example vibrations.

The blister line MB460FAST is the fastest and most flexible blistering machine ever produced by Marchesini. Able to pack 720 blisters per minute, it features innovations of a high technology content.

Thanks to the partnerhip with Schneider Electric, Alumotion takes full advantage of PacDrive3 to create automated and highly flexible pick-and-place systems. And strengthens its relations with GPE Ardenghi.

STRATEGIES The world is changing and reinventing the way companies do business and produce goods. But how? TMC, also with its buy-up of PRB, offers interesting suggestions of entrepreneurial creativity, powered by forward thinking, experience and determination.

Zero scrap, savings on raw materials, reduction of transport volumes and less environmentally stressful logistics poles. The creation of made to measure Freebox™, a system designed and patented by System Packaging, optimises the volume of cardboard used along with the volume of road transport.