Materials and machinery

The “numbers” of the Italian fresh produce market and focus on the relative type of packaging, from the field to the shelf.

Leading player in the Italian snack market, Amica Chips has again tasked RobilantAssociati (Brand Advisory and Strategic Design) with the evolution of its visual identity, to further foster the growth of the company and the quality of its proposals.

Multichannel, new forms of distribution and purchasing habits redraw the sector domestic market.

“Those” of plastic are not always “ugly, dirty and bad” (some may recall the 1976 film by Ettore Scola), as the most uninformed environmentalists would have it. This is all the more true in the case of Crocco Spa, a producer of flexible packaging that also boasts a long history of creating heatshrink films for bundles, stretch films for palletization and polyethylene cling films for use in the…

Capsulit SpA, that for 65 years has been producing safety closures in aluminum and plastic for the pharmaceutical industry, has recently been certified by Certiquality in accordance with ISO 14001 for the environment, thus completing the certification integrated with the quality and safety, respectively, according to ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001.

In 2015 Robatech celebrates the 40th anniversary of its foundation: years experienced featuring quality and the constant collaboration with the market.

With 1,000 exhibitors (against the 700 of 2011) and a good +15% of visitors (30thousand in all), Cibus Tec - Food Pack 2014 closes with a clearly positive balance and offers signs of hope: that of a reawakening of the Italian domestic market, prospected by the significant presence of Italian visitors, interested and with investment projects in their pockets.

Graco (European headquarters in Maasmechelen, Belgium) proposes the InvisiPacTM dispensation system, with no melting tank.

At the latest Cibus Tec, Karr Italiana Srl presented a piston transfer pump for particularly delicate products.

BASF focuses on Ecovio®: a multi-use compostable polymer partially made from renewable raw materials.
Its outstanding barrier properties and versatility make it an ideal solution for the production of various materials, including packaging… and it’s food contact safe.

Herrmann Ultraschall manufactures ultrasonic welding machines, generators and sonotrodes for thermoplastic parts, packaging and nonwovens.

The IX-GA line of Ishida x-ray inspection systems is made up of numerous models specialized according to application that enable meeting even the most specific requirements, as well as ease of use through a touch screen interface that makes it possible to adjust settings like the sensitivity of the control process with the push of a button (the machine memorizes up to 100 parameters, guaranteeing…

Alongside solutions for aging and product transport and distribution, TNA presented at Cibus Tec its packaging machines, among which stands out the TNA Robag®FX 3C VFFS.

Interroll Italia put on an unusual performance at Cibus Tec. Under the spotlight: the hygiene, excellence and cost/performance ratio of the concern’s EHEDG certified synchronous drum motors and… “pop cuisine” by Davide Oldani, who prepared his famous risotto for everyone in attendance.

PurolTM is produced by Rocol®, an ISO 21469:2006 certified concern that proposed the solution at Cibus Tec as the first NSF-H1 3H certified food lubricant, capable of guaranteeing maximum safety and savings thanks to a level of efficiency that drastically reduces machine stops.

Minipack Torre’s R&D has created a new automatic vacuum packaging solution that is high tech, compact and economical.

A double debut, that of PRL Tecnosoft and Bellini & Meda at CibusTec - Foodpack: both companies attending the Parma show for the first time, proposing an integrated range of innovative and high performance solutions for processing, handling and packaging food products: both fresh as well as convenience produce, from baked goods to coffee, pasta, milk and dairy products.

True to the motto “One partner, one solution”, Ronchi Mario SpA (leading world constructor) has provided a high level technological response to a known American pharma company, who asked for a machine for filling and packaging syrups in glass bottles and PET, with cap and inner cap.

The processing of wax based cosmetics is quite simple: One only has to in fact heat the wax, liquefy it and... operate.

Anti-aging treatment developed by French contractor Capsum that, along with Quadpack, devised the metering system: The Twist & Mix dropcounter by Yonwoo, which activates and delivers the NeoPearls.