Materials and machinery

Free-floating movers with six degrees of freedom. Mover flottanti a sei gradi di libertà. Thanks to planar movers that float freely above arbitrarily arranged planar tiles it is possible to obtain extremely flexible, precise and highly dynamic positioning. The XPlanar system by Beckhoff is opening up new avenues in machine and plants design, ensuring maximum flexibility and simplification.

Industry 4.0: reflections emerged from the comparison with some protagonists of the SMART area of Cosmopack. The word goes to Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini Group (Supply of complete lines and machines for packaging pharmaceutical and cosmetics products).

Our excursus on Industry 4.0 starts with a company in some ways anomalous in the SMART area of Cosmopack: in fact Nastri-Tex does not produce "hard" machines for manufacturing cosmetics, but provides a fundamental consumable for creating make-up and therefore essential to the success of the "packaging system" as a whole.

According to Franco Comoli, president of CMI Industries, speaking of Industry 4.0 means talking about rules and methods to implement digital end-to-end processes, with the aim of increasing productivity and controlling costs, and this applies as much to the machine manufacturer as to the user.

The functions of Industry 4.0, within FT System, and of the Arol group of which the company is a part, have been implemented following two main directions: the first is to integrate the inspection and control systems with the other machines in the line to optimize their operation; the second is aimed at monitoring the functioning of individual machines to retrieve information for predictive…

To celebrate its "twenty years of Cosmopack", Omas Tecnosistemi has done things on a big scale. In addition to presenting the most recent developments of mixers and tube filling machines, an automatic monoblock for filling mascara and lipgloss and a monoblock for perfumes with roll-on, the company made a significant contribution to the Factory 2019 "NO-CO- no compromise" (where, together with…

The evolution of ELECTRIC: Thus IDM Automation Srl presented itself at the 2019 edition of Cosmopack, bringing to the fair the e-MF302, a fully electric plastic and glass bottle filling machine, which integrates two Mitsubishi scara robots, one dedicated to loading and one to unloading of the bottles.

The 4.0 of Italian manufacturers. Dossier realized with the contribution of Nastri Tex, Marchesini Group, CMI, IDM Automation, Omas Tecnosistemi, FT System. By Stefano Lavorini, Luciana Guidotti and Chiara Giannangeli.

Measuring gas concentrations inside sealed packaging without piercing and producing unnecessary waste.

Tecmes proposes a platform of machines that fill coffee/soluble product capsules and are marked by unique and innovative features that guarantee unprecedented advantages in terms of performance and energy efficiency.

«If the product is what the consumer buys, the packaging is the“ cladding ”with which the industry proposes and delivers it, as well as being a powerful means of communication to inform and retain customers. This is why it is necessary for companies to be able to count on tools capable of ensuring total quality - container and content - and “without compromises”».

With versatile automatic or semiautomatic solutions suited to the needs of the most varied industrial sectors, Bizerba’s offer of weighing and filling systems is ideal for applications requiring reliability and “per gram” precision.

With an overall increase in attendance of 10% and a significant growth of foreign operators, the sixth edition of Pharmintech Exhibition - an event organized by BolognaFiere - has brought to light the excellence of supplies in the Life Science fiel

Stora Enso launches packaging solutions for luxury products, cosmetics and foodstuffs based on bio-composites derived from wood, alternatives to plastic packaging.

A globally recognized manufacturer specializing in the production of bottle unscramblers, orientators, puck inserters, filling lines, cappers, depuckers, Ronchi Mario SpA has recently developed BETEL Δ 4-EVO, a robotic bottle unscrambler without format change.

Original workings and finishings for additive manufacturing with the ProX® SLS 6100 by 3D Systems printer. Weerg’s word.

In response to the traceability needs of the pharmaceutical sector, for which printing on cartons and packages of a series of variable information is required (lot, date, 2D code etc.) Wide Range has developed a series of ideal solutions for coding of medium-small lots, based on WR FEEDER, a friction feeder for sheets, labels, boxes and coupons in formats up to 250x300 mm with the 250 version, or…

IMA Group has launched the Coffee Hub, a cluster of specialist brands, each providing the key experience and expertise needed to serve the coffee industry.

The new multi-frequency metal detection technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific now meets the retail industry’s most stringent codes of practice regarding foreign object prevention and detection, including those from Marks & Spencer, regarded as the “gold standard” for compliance.

Volpak (part of the Coesia Group) inaugurates a "PouchLAB" at its headquarters in Barcelona, a R&D center to support customers and partners in the development of sustainable solutions. And it offers the market a technological upgrade to produce  100% recyclable paper pouches.