Food and beverage

The expansion of the Covid-19 and the consequent spread of food delivery on the one hand and smart working on the other, have pushed many Italians to consume meals in their homes.

Aldi is launching a packaging waste management campaign called “Missione Im-ballo” with targets through to 2025.

Fondata nel 1939 a Bologna, Pelliconi è oggi leader mondiale nella produzione di tappi e chiusure in metallo e plastica per il Food&Beverage. E, nel nome della sicurezza, lancia una capsula metallica press-on twist-off per il baby food con una guarnizione priva di PVC.

Reduce the environmental impact of your production cycle and provide packaging that is easy to dispose of and recycle. The good practices of the Lombard company Ved Carta, manufacturer of bags, trays, reels…

Advantageous in terms of marketing, profitability and logistics, flexible packaging poses non-trivial problems in automated end-of-line management. Sidel tackles them with technological solutions designed for the food sector, which draw on the experience acquired with this type of packaging and consolidated know-how in terms of robotics.

A growing number of companies in the food sector choose to make their packaging with monomaterials and paper compounds to facilitate recycling at the end of its life. These options, aimed at improving the sustainability of the packaging, however, raise some critical issues during sealing, which can be easily solved thanks to Herrmann Ultraschall’s technology.

Globally recognized manufacturer, specialized in the production of bottle unscramblers, orientators, puck inserters, filling lines, capping machines, depuckers, Ronchi Mario SpA continues with the production of Betel, the robotized bottle unscrambler without format change.

From the design of a particularly compact, highly automated and simple format changeover plant, designed to pack marzipan and chocolate cakes by Niederegger, a range of Schubert machines called lightline is launched.

A leading supplier of systems for line and conveyor automation, FlexLink offers a specific range of solutions for transport and handling in the food industry.

Inspecting meat product for foreign objects, versus finding them in dry, inert products, presents unique challenges.

For over 25 years Contital, a leading company in the production and trade of aluminium trays and rolls, has been analysing the market in order to offer its customers in the food industry and traditional wholesale different types of innovative and quality packaging.

The result of Contital research - a leading company in the production and distribution of aluminium containers - the new premium line of dishes offers a concrete and sustainable answer to these emerging needs

A detailed report of the issues addressed and debated during the 21st Italian FCM Food Contact Material Seminar, organized by the Italian Packaging Institute in collaboration with the country’s National Institute for Health (ISS).

Since March, Alain Zijlstra has taken the lead role in Volpak, after being named as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer.

Support a virtuous recycling chain, cheaper for businesses, capable of containing the costs of collection and treatment of plastic waste and, at the same time, of preserving the environment. It is with these objectives that Aliplast, a leading company in the plastic recycling sector, created the PARI system.

The latest creation of Karr Italiana Srl is a brushless motorized electronic control system for applications on automatic lines, suitable for dosing food products with a variable dosage volume, from 20 to 300 ml.

Reduction of thicknesses and simplification of packaging film structures: It is along these lines that ITP - Industria Termoplastica Pavese has been moving for some time, also accepting the requests expressed by the EU in the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy.

In compliance with the “Performance through Understanding” principle, Sidel provides a disruptive compact line layout with an ultra-flexible shrink-wrapping infeed for bottles to the Swiss producer BINA. Requests met: possibility to manage on the same line a wide variety of formats, speed and simplicity of format changes, very small size of the feeding system.

At Simei, Enoplastic presented a wide range of corks and capsules for wine, oil, sparkling wines and spirits. From the combination of creativity, innovation and technology come exclusive proposals capable of enhancing the product and making the difference.

At the recent Simei trade fair in Milan, the Massilly Group (of which Verimec is the distributor in Italy) presented a number of new products, designed to extend the range of use of a common metal container that, from a paint can, can be transformed into a container for one or more bottles (see photo).