Machines

At Ipack-Ima, Universal Pack celebrated 50 years of success as a builder of machines and complete lines for packaging single portion pouches with a high tech stand, a testament to the concern’s innovative culture.

Each of their labelling system can be designed to be modular, flexible, and expandable, in order to easily adapt to the requirements of the users, that operate mainly in the food & beverage, chemicals, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors.

Versatile, quality and user-friendly marking solutions were featured at the Ipack-Ima stand of C.S.S. Teca Print, which presented not only the pad printing systems for which it is known (indeed the concern has represented the Swiss brand Teca Print in Italy for 40 years), but also direct digital, industrial inkjet and laser printing technologies.

Marking Products proposes the new series of UX continuous inkjet markers by Hitachi, brand which the company has exclusive rights for Italy.

The drivers of Irplast’s success are experience in working with adhesives and vertical integration, as the concern’s first “post-Ipack-Ima” impressions confirm: high attendance and lively interest from international buyers seeking solutions that are innovative in terms of productivity, shelf life, respect for the environment, high performance and limited costs.

Markem-Imaje, an industrial marking and coding specialist, exhibited at Ipack-Ima 2015 with a range of solutions dedicated to the agri-food and beverage sectors, with interactive demonstrations to illustrate for visitors the applications of the most outstanding products on show.

From among the automation solutions it has developed for the packaging sector, Datalogic brought to Ipack-Ima new offers from its Sensors & Safety and Machine Vision business units.

Distributed by K.L.A.IN.robotics, Veltru AG parallel kinematic robots and application supports simplify complex manipulation tasks, even for packaging bell peppers.

Manufacturers require an ever increasing degree of flexibility and uniqueness in production: technologies and terms like big Data and IoT have entered the vocabulary of automation, and Omron offers responses adequate to the trend by developing innovative products.

Servotecnica proposes SRC 032 slip rings, indispensable for powering electric resistance and monitoring blade temperatures in packaging machines (heated electrically to enable cutting and sealing plastic film).

Elesa toggle clamps are widely used in the industry for the processing of metal, wood, plastics and, in general, whenever high clamping torque and repetitive movements to lock components quickly and safely are required.

Ferret has been the exclusive distributor for over 40 years of the Lako Tool brand, leader in the design of seal and welding tools.

At Ipackima 2015 Nordson Italy presented its new series of tankless systems Freedom™ and Problue Liberty™.

Supplier of semi-finished items in tecnopolymer, Ensinger brought its  packaging, beverage and food processing  solutions to Ipack Ima.

Linearteck produces its own line of LITEK™ brand linear modules, used primarily for applications in the packaging, automatic machinery and pick & place sector.

Kuka Roboter Italia presented at Ipack-Ima in style, with a 160 m2 stand in the middle of pavilion 14, dedicating particular attention to pick&place solutions and palletization in the consumption goods sector, which perhaps more than others requires high performance, with robots integrated with high speed conveyors and vision systems.

Lancia Srl measures its success at the fair by the number of interesting events scheduled for its featured machines. The concern brought to Ipack-Ima cutting edge packaging systems, the results of a technological knowhow acquired through years of research in close contact with the market.

PRL Tecnosoft reports that the most recent Ipack-Ima supplied further proof of a trend noticed in recent years: concerns are seeking solutions first and machinery second.

In automatic packaging processes, speed is fundamental. That’s why Schmalz has developed the “vacuum end effectors (VEE)”: a modular system that enables reducing time cycles and streamlining the planning process.

Advanced automation and robotics solutions serving the packaging sector by Yaskawa Italia, such as Total System Solution: an integrated and optimized system, made up of new MPP3S (high speed pick&place and compact robots)  along with inverters and servo-drives, controls, a linear SGT track, VIPA HMI and I/O and PLC/standard SLIO CPU systems.