Machines

Eidos collaborates directly with OEMs, leading to increasingly efficient products with a high degree of integration with packaging lines.

Sorma Group presents its new 100% recyclable FSC paper packaging for fruit and vegetables, that feature an innovative cellulose mesh window that allows the contents to breathe, thereby extending shelf-life while allowing for product visibility.

With more than 50 years of activity, Famar Tec is a leader in the design and construction of automatic machines for primary and secondary packaging for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and nutraceutical market.

You don’t get to be the world’s leading coffee industry secondary packaging machine company without significant experience and a class-leading range of solutions. Cama adds these to its customer-centric approach to deliver just what a fast-moving market needs.

Leader in the design and construction of filling and capping machines, Omas Tecnosistemi has supplied - from the beginning of the global pandemic to the present day - numerous monoblocks for hand sanitizing gel and Sars-Cov2 Test reagent.

 

The new brand PackRevolution created by ITP includes a range of innovative and sustainable films for food packaging, the result of a constant research and development work that has engaged the company in recent years, with the aim of achieving the “green revolution” able to transform the future of flexible packaging production.

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.

Etipack renews its brand identity, evolving its historic trademark in the name of continuity

Oriental Motor’s new EH Series electric gripper is driven by a rack and pinion mechanism, run by a stepper motor with integrated absolute mechanical multiturn encoder and a 24 VDC Series AZ drive.

The solutions developed for the packaging industry by SIPRO to automate Pick & Place cycles involve the use of Delta geometry robots.

Many are the strengths of IOT technologies, but it is not easy to build the infrastructure that is able to allow the business to make a forward leap. The role of Competence Center, suppliers, OEM, system integrator and end user.

When a world-renowned converter and automatic machine builder with over 170 years of history meets a young hi-tech startup, a win-win collaboration is born, which gives rise to a new service proposal. Open innovation and servitization are the key factors of a change, which allows machine users to improve productivity and quality. Camillo Ghelfi and Marco Bressanello, respectively CEO of 40Factory…

Principles of sustainability ahead of one’s time distinguish the activity of Menichetti, which has been producing organic glues for boxes, papermaking and bookbinding since 1950: faithful to a tradition that derives from the past, it puts its experience at the service of today’s packaging industry. Meri Menichetti, at the head of the family business, tells us about it.

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

The VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland has developed a new technology for using agricultural waste containing pectin, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, to produce bio-based PEF (polyethylene furanoate) plastics as a replacement for traditional PET.
The Finnish researchers believe that the discovery could reduce the carbon footprint of plastic bottles by 50% (annual PET packaging…

A young start-up specialized in applying deep learning techniques to machine vision (ARGO Vision) and a company expert in vision, traceability and industry 4.0 systems for drug packaging (SEA Vision) are the protagonists of an all-Italian story about the future and industrial innovation.

Panotec’s automatic line OPERA enables the creation of custom-made “just in time” boxes for various types of products to be packed and shipped. An advantageous choice, both from an economic and performance point of view.

Developed and produced by FM, Smart Blow is the ideal diffuser for applications where all traces of moisture need to be removed from all surfaces of containers, including the areas that are most difficult to reach.

Developed for packaging and label printers as well as large format printing, the new Esko Software 20.1 integrated platform was released in November, along with new hardware solutions. The goal: to improve packaging production cycle operations by supporting the digital transformation path of businesses.

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.