Materials and machinery

Two months from the start (day of writing, Ed), the fourth edition of the industrial automation fair organized yearly at Parma by Messe Frankfurt Italia, is already seen to be on the increase, with a +18% of exhibitors.

The exhibition and conference dedicated to vision and ID solutions for industrial traceability and logistics applications, organized by EIOM in conjunction with the ninth Food Industry Technology mcT is now back in its second edition.

... light can come in a spraycan? And what about the dispenser for explosives? And the compressed aerosol, the syphon for condiments, the dye applicator? The ADF Awards where technology, marketing and the imagination ran riot at the  latest  Oriex fair-conference.

 
Often food-, pharmaceutical industry or packaging system axes need to be subjected to repeated washings, sometimes performed by spraying at low pressure. 

Omron passes the Entrec tests with its Sysmac platform.

 
Sew-Eurodrive introduces the girth rings made for motion transmission in large rotary systems to the market. Their main feature is theur modularity that enables significant advantages in terms of production, logistics and economising.

SATO launches CL4NX, the new revolutionary series of thermal industrial barcode printers and changes the sector standards.

Italians are not foregoing on purchasing cosmetics, essential for daily hygiene and personal well-being, but are moving towards cheaper price ranges or towards better value for money: this is why the value of the cosmetics market has decreased slightly, but not the volume of products sold.

Leister Technologies enters onto the Italian market first hand by inaugurating its direct branch.

Krones, leader on the global market of filling and packaging beverages, has bought 100% of HST Maschinenbau GmbH that designs and produces homogenizers and piston pumps for food & beverage.

KNOWING TO EVALUATE Giflex and IRCPack have completed a project defining a method for verifying the adequacy of production processes and legality of raw materials used and supplies a tool for testing cases of contention. Below are the results of the research focused on risk evaluation of toxicological and sensory damage relating to set-off.
Valter Rocchelli, Mara Baronciani

Mineral water bottlers and recyclers have created a voluntary consortium that will effect a closed supply chain in order to recover more PET and produce raw materials with food safe properties. Called Coripet, the new consortium brings to the table original ideas to involve supermarkets and award virtuous consumers.

EIDOS will be attending Interpack 2014 (Hall 5 stand 5G02) with all its industrial code printers for packaging and manufacturing.

At Interpack P.K. Imballaggi’s products will be on display at the stand of Hade Heinrich Donseifer KG, partners of the Vigevano based company since 1969.

Steel and aluminium containers enable bringing out the full potential of a product’s value. These completely recyclable packaging types offer many advantages in production. A testimonial by Mirato.
Editorial communication by the Association

Aetna Group is bound to Interpack by a long tradition, and in this edition too the Group companies propose important innovations to the market (hall 12, stand F15).

PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENT Arcoplastica carries out research and thinks “sustainably”: for protective atmosphere food packaging it has in fact devised an additivised PET that can replace traditional multilayer materials. The advantages? High performance, max transparency and the great pluspoint that monomaterial containers are easy to recover and recycle.

With WE2111, admissible for verification with ultra-modern interfaces, HBM imposes standards of accuracy and functionality.

During next Metpack (Essen, May 6-10th 2014), Henkel specialists will be presenting their innovations for the production, treatment, coating and recycling of cans, tubes, containers and drums.

A stand divided into four zones, each one dedicated to application areas followed over time with dedication, and many new products, characterize the presence of Ishida at Interpack.