Materials and machinery

TRACEABILITY Demand for smart labels grows in step with the requirements for constant control of flows (and costs) along the supply chain. Eurolabel responds by bringing to the table a range of quality custom tags and all the competencies necessary for coordinating the supply of a complete Rfid system.

UPDATES The progress of the channels during the first half of 2012 and projections for the second half, based on economic analysis by the Unipro research center.

 
FOOD AND BEVERAGE Structure and market trends. Focus on packaging of food products.

PRB: secondary packaging proposals designed for the food industry,
with an eye to largescale users

Robatech wins over the jury of the prestigious Red Dot Award in the product design category , thanks to its Speedstar™ Diamond series of hot melt adhesive application guns: an award given for the development and production of adhesive application systems.

To plan, decide, order and buy "printing" via web without having to meet the service provider, of course at competitive prices, is now a regular feature also in Italy. And it is beginning to catch on in the labeling world. In what instances? With what limitations and benefits? Matteo Rigamonti, founder of PixartPrinting and pioneer of Italian web-to-print, answers questions from our editorial…

SEW Eurodrive offers its partners the double advantage of reducing costs and increasing productivity ... And hence is developing the two concepts in parallel, offering comprehensive and customized solutions that can generate benefits across the board for users, while conscious of the strategic role that automation plays in the industrial field.

«A development system can be successful over time only if developers can simply manage the evermore complex programs». Automation Studio by B&R is in line with maximum software usability criteria.

With Combi Predis FMa Sidel will go further in terms of filling technologies for sensitive products. Dedicated to single-serve bottles, this latest and fastest generation allows meeting the needs of the sensitive beverages industry for reduced operational costs and higher sustainability.

Presented Nespresso’s global Ecolaboration program for sustainable production and social responsibility. The Italian partners committed to the project, the specific objectives and the paradigm of sustainability, read as an asset to be further developed.

Unipro and the sector’s good prospects: turnover touching 9 billion euros (+4.4%) despite the recession and an acknowledgement of the keen entrepreneurship of the younger generations.

 
THE FORMULA THE MARKET LIKES Figures up for the second edition of SPS/IPC/DRIVES Italia. Motivated thus the satisfaction of the organizers (Messe Frankfurt), the Parma fair body that hosts the same and all participants (exhibitors and visitors), who gave rise to a three-day event of high-level technology, going further into one of the items most keenly associated with productivity: industrial…

A truly successful partnership between B&G and Acma, totally “made-in-Italy”: a three block  integrated system that includes blower, filler and a multiple capping unit capable of handling up to 10 containers different in terms of format and materials.

An Ishida multiheaded weigher can automatically package even the most fragile confectionery products without damage to the same.

FROM A TO Z Packaging design as a point of encounter between functionality, taste, technology and communication shows its full force in the applications of the cosmetics sector. We report some of the ideas and suggestions for packaging from PCD and ADF 2012, with some forays into the food sector.

Rexroth proposes its innovative Flexprofile function for axial control for machines with electronic cams not only on a position but also on a timed basis: ideal tools for responding to the problems of a complex production like that of cosmetics.

The Cuki projects. Reduction of material for cardboard packaging and practical help
to the Food Bank that with "Cuki save the food", redistributes surplus food.

ETHICAL DESIGN Fine ideas, simple and elegant, innovative but feasible at the same time, faithful to a design process that revolves around the ethics of responsibility ... And perhaps for this reason, capable of positively influencing our ways of being consumers/citizens. Suggestions from the show "Responsabilmente" and an invitation to consider the quality, values and contents of a form of…

DIGITAL CUTTING A hi-tech plotter for small-to-medium formats and an effective material handling system to automate the entire workcycle.
At drupa Zund gave example of its expertise, with an eye to paper converting applications.

EQUATIONS If packaging plays a strategic role for companies operating in the field of consumer products and good packaging can be achieved thanks to an adequate motion control... then motion control is strategic. This is demonstrated by Control Techniques’ intervention on the company Mimi’s Mito shrink-wrapping machine.