Materials and machinery

Partnering with customers to automate their packaging lines, Cama offers comprehensive innovative machinery and service solutions, adding tangible value to their business operations.

Founded in 1980, from February 2018 Nuova Erreplast transferred the production plant to the province of Caserta, in an area of 55,000 square meters with cutting-edge technologies, also with regard to digital printing and doypak line.

Tenenga and Tecno-Soft will be organizing an emblematic event on September 20, 2019: “Among the engines of innovation. Come and discover the technologies to improve your processes”.

Automation for the digital and flexible industry on show at SPS: discovering the trends that are guiding development and production. Review of solutions dedicated to the world of packaging, with a first focus on the evolution of sensors. First part.
By Maurizio Cacciamani

Bormioli Pharma, leading pharma packaging manufacturer based in Italy, announces the first sustainable plastic packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.

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.

Since 1958, Laborplast’s core business has been the production of regenerated PVC cores for film wrapping.

Durst anticipates the technological developments related to digital printing systems for Tau RSC labels, awaiting the Labelexpo Europe fair (Brussels, 23 - 27 September 2019) where - together with Lirmaprint* - it will show live innovations of an updated and state-of-the-art portfolio.

Distributed exclusively on the Italian market by Imballaggi PK, the GLUE DOTS™ adhesive points are a multi-purpose and instantaneous bonding system - they do not require any heating time - for the most varied applications: fixing of samples on catalogs or containers of different sizes, the joining of different elements together, as in the case of sets of disposable forks and knives attached to…

Etipack has developed a high productivity and flexible self-adhesive labeling system for processing various formats of aluminium trays for a major pet food producer.

For over 25 years, Marking Products Srl has been dedicated to the sale and assistance of industrial marking systems for each application sector and with different technologies. From Hitachi it proposes the new coding and industrial marking systems with its Series UX continuous inkjet technology and the CO2 vector laser LM Series.

Accessible design, ease of use, excellent print quality even in “extra large” format, minimum maintenance and long life: these are the requirements that have guided the design of the Hi-Res Inkjet DIAGRAPH IJ4000 system, distributed in Italy by SIS.MA.

The SPS fair in Parma was an opportunity to meet Horst-Dieter Kraus, Marketing Manager of Pilz GmbH & Co. Kg. ItaliaImballaggio did not miss the opportunity to address the “safety & security” theme in Italy and in Europe with one of the sector leaders, also seeking to know its future development plans.

With increasing automation, intelligent control of the flow of goods in conveyor systems also plays an increasingly important role.

The Linearteck Litek® linear modules, with both screw and belt movement (with wheels on shafts or ball bearing trolleys), are an innovative and customizable solution, which adapts to the most varied needs and methods of use: fast or slow, rigid or flexible, double or single guide, with profiled or recirculating ball bearings.

The new icotek KEL-DPZ 16 fairlead strip, now available on the market, is compatible with 16-pin connector openings, a size that allows easy and quick passage of cables, which can be inserted and sealed in a small space up to a maximum number of 34 (with a diameter from 1.5 to 16.2 mm).

Reer presents the new MA4 expansion module of the Mosaic family, which allows any analog type sensor to be connected to the system.

Implemented in more than 200 production sites worldwide, SunColorBox by Sun Chemical is an exclusive set of tools and services that enables consistent and accurate digital color communication throughout the entire packaging supply chain, with all the printing technologies and on any substrate.

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.