Materials and machinery

Reduction of food damage during pick&place operations, thanks to SICK 3D vision technology combined with ABB automation.

WITTENSTEIN offers iTAS, the first modular and completely scalable transmission system for automated guided vehicles (AGVs), which uses simco® drive with integrated webserver functionality.

Patreider designs and builds automatic machinery that guarantees production efficiency even at high speeds and constant repeatability of results. Focus on a new packaging line for tubes featuring Veltru robots (distributed in Italy by K.L.A.IN.robotics).

Nordson solutions for packaging applications are ideal to reduce costs and streamline operations, increase productivity, reliability and sustainability.

The new ATEX certified 221g series stainless steel Parker Hannifin solenoid valves are proposed as an economic solution to the food, pharmaceutical, oil and gas markets, but, more generally, in applications where there are corrosive liquids, chemicals and gases (ie potentially explosive atmospheres).

Dassault Systèmes (3D design software, advanced simulation, virtual reality and managing the product lifecycle) launches SOLIDWORKS 2017.

Specialist in the field of coding, marking and in-line control, Nimax presents the new four color digital printer Trojan3r, enabling users to produce in-house only what is needed, when it is needed. Italian preview at Cibus Tec (25-28 October 2016, Parma).

PRL Tecnosoft returns to Cibus Tec 2016, and continues with its 20th anniversary celebrations, begun in Parma during the recent edition of SPS IPC Drives Italy, where, thanks also to an increasingly close collaboration with Schneider Electric, it was able to show its latest achievements.

With a total turnover of 10.5 billion euro, perfumes and professional hairstyling resume growth. Good signs also from contract manufacturing. Numbers and trends from the economic survey of Cosmetica Italia’s research center.

For everyone who has mountains to climb: Levissima#la 75 is the “mobile bottle” by PET Engineering.

MAV offers a polypropylene jar with soft and seductive contours, thick walls and an elegant design for medium to high end products for operators in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and herbal sectors that in addition to functionality require packaging solutions capable of highlighting the quality of a product and the uniqueness of a brand.

Pride and excitement at Lameplast Group’s 40th anniversary party: in May, customers, officials and employees gathered to celebrate together with the management a major milestone on a road paved with commitment, pragmatism and dreams.

After cooking, the food now detaches from the trays with much greater ease. This is guaranteed
by the new product devised by Contital, developed and patented by Laminazione Sottile Group’s R&D department.
C. Sinagra, P. Pollice, S. Calise

With 40 years of experience as a manufacturer of containers, cases, cylinders, boxes in PET, PP, bio-plastics, PVC, designed for all market sectors, Idealplast (Meda, MB) proposes its PET line of containers made of bioplastic and cylindrical packaging with metal bottom and snap fitted metal lid or metal lid with easy open.

“Powered by KHS”, Natura MultiPack™, the multiple packaging system for PET bottles developed by NMP Systems GmbH after an intense 24-month collaboration with Danone Waters, now hits the market.

The increasing attention to automation of industrial processes, which is increasingly being expressed even by medium-sized manufacturers, has led Live-Tech (Guarene, CN) to develop an innovative range of small format machines that, when appropriately engineered, guarantee the right balance of performance, quality and price.

The technical gas producer SIAD has developed a new solution to respond to the sensorial expectations of consumers, allowing them to perceive the fact that the product has been excellently preserved.

It is 1986 when FABO introduces, among the first in Europe, the solvent free acrylic coating in its adhesive tape production process.

The products fielded by FKuR GmbH meet the growing demand for biodegradable and compostable plastics in conformity with EN13432 regulations.

Over its 50-year experience, MG2 has developed specific solutions for each critical issue related to nutraceuticals.