Materials and machinery

Alongside the proven Visionlab 100 defect controller, Visionlab proposes two new systems dedicated to the register control for cold seal.

Focus on the new technologies shaping the package printing industry. We met Jan Scharfenberg, Technical Manager, DuPont Packaging Graphics, Europe, Middle East and Africa to get news on new technologies that are helping to meet the challenges into the packaging printing industry.

The global economic crisis has led many companies to review their company and economic policies and to even resize annual investment in machinery and equipment.

LC Electra Evolution has been developed by Irac (Montecavolo di Quattro Castella, RE). This is a horizontal automatic washing machine for photopolymer plates, which integrates original systems to improve the quality of the results and reduce the operator commitment.

Re Controlli Industriali designs and manufactures process automation equipment for manufacturing of laminates, particularly for the converting, paper and cardboard-, wire-, rubber and plastics processing-, textiles and nonwoven industries. Their offer includes systems for machine control, handling, transmission, alignment and vision systems.

Evolution is a new automatic flexo printing drum washing system created built up by Rossini SpA. Performance guaranteed: uniform cleaning of the entire surface of the drum and better print quality without downtime.

Electronic Systems (Momo, NO) produces systems for measurement, inspection and automation for the plastics, coating and rubber as well as hygiene and medical sectors, beyond a range of standard products also providing solutions to industrial problems.

Developed by Polytype Converting AG (Wifag-Polytype Group), the FlexCo system is compact, modular and offers unlimited flexibility in all steps of coating, drying and laminating, performing coating on all web type materials  up to a width of 500 mm.

Designed for the main converting applications  the Plastimetal corona treating unit by Martignoni Elettronica Srl has a pneumatic system for handling discharge units.

Specialised in roller coverings, Hannecard has developed Flexolys-Foam, a compressible polyurethane covering quality that can be obtained in several density grades.

CMC Converting Machinery Cevenini (Concorezzo MB) presented E450, a machine for cutting log rolls from jumbo rolls with a completely automatic cycle (excluding the loading and unloading of the material) and maximum working width of 1700 mm.

Gap Srl builds special extrusion lines to produce films and in particular double and triple bubble systems for simultaneously and contactlessly orientating materials in LLDPE, EVOH, PA and multilayer structures.

Innova Biback H-PO is a twin shaft bridge slitter rewinder, with separate unwinder, developed by Cason SpA for cutting all types of material (plastic films, laminates, adhesives and paper media). Equipped with two winding stations, it features an innovative system for picking up the jumbo roll from the ground, a shaftless unwinder incorporated in the structure, overhead transport of film and easy…

Offered by Vea Srl, SolventMix mod. 3/60L is a mixer for three-component solvent-based adhesives, that can dose components using a precision scale and a powerful software that can check and correct any small differences due to temperature and viscosity variations of the components.

Longstanding partners, Manzoni Costruzioni Meccaniche and Timec Srl attended Ice Europe in a joint stand offering a range of complementary solutions.

Bimec (Vanzaghello, MI) is an Italian company that has been operating for over 36 years in the design and manufacture of slitter rewinders.

The Pasquato (Pianiga, VE) TR 15/500 slitter rewinder is suitable for the longitudinal slitting and rewinding of various materials including PVC, adhesive backings, special paper, plastic materials or for silk screen. It features an expanding shaft or shaft and cones and centring device as well as hand brake for the jumbo roll. This machine, variable speed, comes with working widths of 1500-1700…

Rama Costruzioni Meccaniche offers a broad range of trucks for handling rolls on board machine in manual electrical and electronic versions. The Pontenure (PC) based company is able to design and manufacture equipment and special machines to meet different working requirements of the paper and flexible packaging industry.

Avery Dennison presented for the first time at Labelexpo Europe, the Curve Appeal™ system and Fasson Curvy™ film.

The Atlas Converting Equipment Ltd. Titan SR9 dual turret slitter rewinder ensures high productivity and a reduction in energy consumption.