Materials and machinery

The new flacon of Francesca Dell’Oro Parfum features a small deconstructed architecture, inspired by the dynamic and refined art of Tamara de Lempicka. The bottle has two-sided, faceted and elegant, tailored around the versatile and joyous personality of this talented rising star in the crafting of essences.

An Italian company, Rotoprint Sovrastampa of Lainate (MI), is among the winners of WorldStar Packaging Award 2015, held annually by the World Packaging Organisation to award world excellence in the field of packaging.

Japanese packaging is never downbeat. it is always aesthetically perfect, conceptually innovative, technically correct, graphically elegant. As if to say packaging with a soul. The much acclaimed designer Nendo has come up with some very interesting solutions.

In 2014 Stevanato Group (glass pharmaceutical packaging and machinery for processing and controlling glass tubes) has reported revenues of 285 million euros, up 18.7% on the previous year.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the body responsible for the control and regulation of food and pharmaceuticals that operates within the  US Department of Health. The US, what is more, has always been a strategic market for all food and pharmaceutical industry machinery manufacturers, which is why it is essential to design solutions that meet FDA regulations. The US attorney Jeffrey A.…

Last March, Sealed Air was presented with two Achievement Awards for innovation by the Flexible Packaging Association, for promoting printing techniques, technologies, processes and sustainability in this packaging category.

Karr Italiana Srl (Assago, MI) has designed and built volumetric dosing machinery and units for dense and pasty liquid products for more than fifty years.

Six months of development and 100 thousand euro went into the new thermoformed plastic tray with barrier properties that RPC Barrier Containers has created for the premium brand “La Cuisine d’Océane” (VIF, Gendreau Group). Also microwave-safe, the container reproduces the shape of the “cocotte” used in traditional country cooking.

Biscuits, coffee, bread, fruit and vegetables: with Prl Tecnosoft, the right solution for any product.

Highly versatile, but also efficient and safe, the new Zenobia FFS machine will be presented by Teepack at Ipack-Ima 2015 (Hall 1, Stand C73).

A packaging solution with spoon incorporated for creamy foods on the go and high-end plastic pack for puppy food. From the R&D of RPC Superfos.

It is presented as one of the lightest, most economical and reliable caps for food oil, vinegar and sauce bottles in PET.

Milliken, one of the main suppliers of additives for polyolefin, will be presenting at Ipack-Ima the Ultra Clear PP clarified with the Millad® NX™ 8000 series for food containers.

Awarded in April at the Istituto Europeo di Design-IED, Milan, the winners of the competition “Only Italian olives, a bottle for Expro”, promoted by Symbola-Fondazione for the Italian Qualities and the producer trade association Unaprol, to design a bottle capable of communicating the values of 100% Made in Italy extravirgin olive oil.

For the Australian company Natures Organics Gerhard Schubert has devised a highly compact casepacking and palletisation system, which has enabled improvement of overall efficiency on shampoo and conditioner packaging lines.

Controlling the functionality, size and appearance of closures for flacons, droppers and accessories for pharmaceutical packaging: the automatic vision systems adopted by Capsulit guarantee compliance with the strictest international regulations.

In 2015 Valmatic celebrates its 35 years of activity. Initially set up as a builder of heatforming machines for producing containers for suppositories and vaginal ovules, during time the company has focussed on the concept of monodose, developing FFS machines for the production of one-time-use thermoformed containers.

An acknowledged leader of the market for tin plate products, Massilly has developed a new production line for General Line type boxes.

Entirely designed and built by Omas Tecnosistemi, the new GRFC-6 model rotary monoblock is equipped with 6 dosing syringes and 6 pressure cap closure heads.

2015 marks an important year for the Niada Group, which has reached the benchmark of 40 years in business, establishing itself among the major Italian thermoformed product manufacturers. An offer exceeding 180 standard formats subdivided by product type makes it the European concern with the widest offer of ready to use standard blisters.