Machines

Our excursus on Industry 4.0 starts with a company in some ways anomalous in the SMART area of Cosmopack: in fact Nastri-Tex does not produce "hard" machines for manufacturing cosmetics, but provides a fundamental consumable for creating make-up and therefore essential to the success of the "packaging system" as a whole.

According to Franco Comoli, president of CMI Industries, speaking of Industry 4.0 means talking about rules and methods to implement digital end-to-end processes, with the aim of increasing productivity and controlling costs, and this applies as much to the machine manufacturer as to the user.

The functions of Industry 4.0, within FT System, and of the Arol group of which the company is a part, have been implemented following two main directions: the first is to integrate the inspection and control systems with the other machines in the line to optimize their operation; the second is aimed at monitoring the functioning of individual machines to retrieve information for predictive…

A group of researchers from the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (CNR-ISASI), the Institute for Composite Polymers and Biomaterials (CNR-IPCB) and the Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare of the Italian Technology Institute in Naples (CABHC-IIT) has developed a process for creating a very thin film capable of enclosing and sealing volumes of water or water-based…

To celebrate its "twenty years of Cosmopack", Omas Tecnosistemi has done things on a big scale. In addition to presenting the most recent developments of mixers and tube filling machines, an automatic monoblock for filling mascara and lipgloss and a monoblock for perfumes with roll-on, the company made a significant contribution to the Factory 2019 "NO-CO- no compromise" (where, together with…

The evolution of ELECTRIC: Thus IDM Automation Srl presented itself at the 2019 edition of Cosmopack, bringing to the fair the e-MF302, a fully electric plastic and glass bottle filling machine, which integrates two Mitsubishi scara robots, one dedicated to loading and one to unloading of the bottles.

The 4.0 of Italian manufacturers. Dossier realized with the contribution of Nastri Tex, Marchesini Group, CMI, IDM Automation, Omas Tecnosistemi, FT System. By Stefano Lavorini, Luciana Guidotti and Chiara Giannangeli.

Measuring gas concentrations inside sealed packaging without piercing and producing unnecessary waste.

Tecmes proposes a platform of machines that fill coffee/soluble product capsules and are marked by unique and innovative features that guarantee unprecedented advantages in terms of performance and energy efficiency.

«If the product is what the consumer buys, the packaging is the“ cladding ”with which the industry proposes and delivers it, as well as being a powerful means of communication to inform and retain customers. This is why it is necessary for companies to be able to count on tools capable of ensuring total quality - container and content - and “without compromises”».

With versatile automatic or semiautomatic solutions suited to the needs of the most varied industrial sectors, Bizerba’s offer of weighing and filling systems is ideal for applications requiring reliability and “per gram” precision.

With an overall increase in attendance of 10% and a significant growth of foreign operators, the sixth edition of Pharmintech Exhibition - an event organized by BolognaFiere - has brought to light the excellence of supplies in the Life Science fiel

Stora Enso launches packaging solutions for luxury products, cosmetics and foodstuffs based on bio-composites derived from wood, alternatives to plastic packaging.

At the recent International Nutfruit Congress (23-25 May, Boca Raton, Florida), a major annual event for the nut and dried fruit sector, Besana was presented with the INC Innovation Award for its latest innovative packaging solution.

A globally recognized manufacturer specializing in the production of bottle unscramblers, orientators, puck inserters, filling lines, cappers, depuckers, Ronchi Mario SpA has recently developed BETEL Δ 4-EVO, a robotic bottle unscrambler without format change.

Original workings and finishings for additive manufacturing with the ProX® SLS 6100 by 3D Systems printer. Weerg’s word.

With the new KT-M icotek grommet, already available on the market, the connectors and installation jacks are integrated directly into the icotek KEL, KEL-U or KEL-ER cable glands.

In response to the traceability needs of the pharmaceutical sector, for which printing on cartons and packages of a series of variable information is required (lot, date, 2D code etc.) Wide Range has developed a series of ideal solutions for coding of medium-small lots, based on WR FEEDER, a friction feeder for sheets, labels, boxes and coupons in formats up to 250x300 mm with the 250 version, or…

IMA Group has launched the Coffee Hub, a cluster of specialist brands, each providing the key experience and expertise needed to serve the coffee industry.

Airpack, a company based in Ossago Lodigiano in Lombardy, Italy specialising in the production of bubble wrap and foam packaging and owner of Jiffy Packaging and TAP Telio, is set to sell its interests to Belgian group Abriso, a producer of polyethylene (PE) and polystyrene (PS) foam and bubble wrap film.