Materials and machinery

Rockwell Automation confirms SPS as privileged venue for launching the most innovatory technologies and trends of industrial automation.

Developed by Robatech, RobaFeedTM is a completely integrated and automated feed system for adhesives in granulate form that enables continuous filling of the melting tank while guaranteeing high work safety standards.

An advanced rotational platform, an entirely mechanical movement, for assembling cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging components, regarding medical devices and many other applications.

Bosch Rexroth now offers the VarioFlow Plus conveyor system, in which an innovative multi-vertebrate chain makes all the difference. There are numerous advantages for users, starting from the easy configuration in limited spaces.

The growing participation of exhibitors and visitors, the “density” and the quality of contents and the complicity of a prestigious location (the Carrousel of the Louvre) have supported the rapid success of MakeUp in Paris as a B2B encounter rigorously focussed on the make-up segment and dense with contents.

The Istituto Italiano Imballaggio will be dedicating three update encounters to the delicate and focal matter of food contact packaging.

With over 900 exhibitors from 35 countries and more than 25 thousand visitors   expected from at least 100 countries around the world, the next edition of the event organized by SoGeCos-BolognaFiere Group announces itself to be rich in content and opportunities.

The  Paris event that annually brings the new brands to the fore (and new products) that operate in the beauty industry is celebrating its 12th edition.

Five the winners of the competition promoted by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. This year’s theme was Quality Design and, not by chance, organized in cooperation with the Scuola del Design of Politecnico di Milano. The awards ceremony during the Milan Design Week “Fuorisalone”.

In the month of February, based on interim figures, the Italian food sector registered a drop of -0.2% on the same month the year previous, and Italian industry as a whole showed, compared to February 2013, a +0.4%, both in interim figures as well as in the exact number of days reading.

Levissima (Sanpellegrino Group) is among the 137 virtuous companies awarded in the fifth edition of Regione Lombardia’s 2013 “Best Practices” Social Responsibility review.

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The independent company Aventics has been created from the Pneumatics division of Bosch Rexroth: for the first time a big player in the sector has reinvented itself completely, fielding a new structure dedicated exclusively to the pneumatics business.

Steel and aluminium packaging is ideal for food products, offering the longest shelf life, guaranteeing room temperature storage and protection against contaminants. And they can be recycled ad infinitum. Rio Mare is a case in point  (www.riomare.it, Bolton Alimentari).

Eataly was the first  high quality Italian agrifood  and restaurant & catering operator to opt for Mater-Bi® biodegradable and compostable carrier bags and disposable kitchenware (cups and cutlery) and today confirms its environmental record by also adopting bioplastic bags for its Milan fresh produce salespoint.

The Gerosa Group, international leader in converting flexible packaging, has developed a new re-lock solution for creating reclosable packaging, capable of guaranteeing at greater length the integrity and freshness of products.

Sustainability and safety are core concepts in all converting processes, first and foremost those involving food products.

Ilip è tra i protagonisti dello spazio Innovationparc Packaging, che Interpack 2014 ha dedicato a Save Food, l’iniziativa lanciata da Messe Düsseldorf in collaborazione con FAO per combattere lo spreco alimentare.

A World Fair (Interpack) and an Open Factory (Flat-Bologna, May 5th to 23rd) to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Marchesini Group, showcasing the solutions that have made the history of the company along with the new machines made with the most advanced Italian technology.

Scatolificio Cristina Srl has managed to automate the last stage of the production of transparent pyramidal packaging. This is an absolute first, that marries a recherché style shape to an industrial process, and thus enables cost and aboveall packaging assembly time reduction (all to the advantage of its customers).