Food and beverage

The technology developed by AcmaVolpak, a company of Coesia Group, allows to pack a stick into a stand up pouch in an upright position, guaranteeing both the accessibility and the fragrance of the product. The system is used in the food industry, to pack such products as sausages and salami, but has potential applications in many different sectors.

Ocme celebrates 60 years and receives an important award: at the World Beverage BrauBeviale Innovation Awards 2014 (325 nominations from 40 countries, divided into 36 categories.) Ocme’s  Packetto™ solution was positioned among the top five finalists in the “Best technological innovation” category.

Account and contents of the “Food Contact Materials and Articles” seminar, organized by the Istituto Italiano Imballaggio and the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS).

Product sustainability and efficiency in the management of resources will be the main themes of the international food and beverage show, organized by Koelnmesse GmbH in cooperation with Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft -DLG (German Agricultural Society).

During the Fruit Logistica fair 2015 (February 4 to 6, Berlin), Mondi is organizing a workshop to present aqua protec, the new brand featuring sustainable packaging and quality solutions based on ProVantage Aqua paperboard.

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.

“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…

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.

Mondi goes evermore environmental and for Nespresso creates a pouch to contain used coffee capsules (but the product itself summarizes the many packaging skills acquired by the large integrated group).