Materials and machinery

SECONDARY PACKAGING AND ROBOTICS The coming key fair rendezvous in the sector - Pack Expo Las Vegas and Fachpack Nurnberg, both scheduled end of September 2015 - will feature Cama Group’s Breakthrough Generation machine, skillfully designed to measure to suit the needs of the different markets.

With the addition of the MFE72A EtherCAT® communicatin module, Sew-Eurodrive expands its range of action on decentralized systems.
Thanks to the new interface, the MOVIMOT® system can also be completely integrated in an EtherCAT® network.

Resulting from a fruitful synergy between two market leaders, the latest Zancaner pallet transport line with a multilayer palletizer and wrapper, for safety on machines using EOS barriers and Mosaic, the modular and configurable ReeR controller, which can manage all of an installation’s safety functions.

Ipack-Ima has been an important showcase for the latest products of Elesa, leader in the design and manufacture of standard machine elements. At the fair, attention was focused on an electronic position indicator and a roller tracks series.

The Swiss multinational Robatech is a global leader in the development and production of adhesive application systems. SpeedStar™ Diamond application guns represent the utmost in speed, durability and precision.

WITTENSTEIN’s Galaxie® is a servo-actuator made up of a latest generation zero play gearbox, combined with a high performance servomotor, which together create an extremely compact hollow shaft module with a yield exceeding 92%.

Dedicated to the green economy, where the recovery of packaging plays a major role, the show pushes the accelerator on innovation and internationality.

Cesena, September 22, Macfrut Forum - Rimini, September 23 to 25, Macfrut 2015

Market structure, consumption trends and types of packaging for food products (food and beverages). 

2015 has been a year “of substance” for Robatech, which has chosen Converflex to share with the world its big news: the start of a partnership with Leary, the concern’s constant attention to ethical and environmental issues and 40 years of history to celebrate. Davide Morten, manager of the Swiss group’s Italian subsidiary, shares his thoughts.

Nimax (coding, marking, control and metal detector systems) has developed iTech Branded, a commercial offer that leaves ample room to users and their systems.

The future of pick&place. At Ipack Ima Trascar offers an original solution for handling trays of cold cuts, combined with an integrated viewing system featuring low bulk.

With the purpose of differentiating its original production of packaging machinery, Minipack-Torre (Dalmine, BG) has for years focused its efforts on vacuum packaging machinery, seeking to expand its market opportunities and enjoying very positive results.

At Ipack-Ima ICAT presented a new high performance hotmelt adhesives family named Icamelt RX, also advantageous from an economic point of view. Deviced in cooperation with a US multinational and based on a new hotmelt adhesive technology, they assure performances comparable, and in some cases even better, than those of metallocene adhesives.

Creating a new single material packaging that is recyclable and eco-sustainable, capable of prolonging the shelf life of food products that must not come into contact with air or humidity.

Smiles and champagne at the stand of Bühler, a producer of installations for processing pasta and grain-based foods, following an event at which the concern showed the best of its technologies and competencies with an impactful show (with motorcycles, models and big screens).

A stand at Ipack-Ima, one at Fruit Innovation and two spaces at Expo 2015 to raise consumer awareness of the important role of packaging in preserving food products. Considerable hence Goglio’s investment in highlighting a new generation of proposals for packaging solid and liquid products, fresh or processed, with an eye to sustainable progress and protecting the environment.

From Spreafico, cutting-edge machines for producing coffee capsules. History or a company that has been able to grow in time, in the name of Italian quality.

Quality, flexibility and rapidity of service: these as ever the keywords of the activity of the Gerosa Group (leading light in the world of printing on flexible packaging) that can claim prestigious customers.

A renewed line of machines for continuous aseptic packaging: Omas Tecnosistemi consolidates its presence in the pharmaceutical sector and proposes a complete and state-of-the-art line that guarantees total decontamination of microorganisms and endotoxins.