Industry and strategy

Integrated packaging solutions leader Pro Mach, Inc. announced today it has acquired global high-speed labeling solutions provider P.E. Labellers SpA. The addition of Italy-based P.E. Labellers expands Pro Mach’s capabilities to provide high-speed decorative labeling and integrated solutions worldwide. All global subsidiaries and management teams of P.E. Labellers join the Pro Mach team.

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.  

Offer students a concrete and all-inclusive training experience, allowing them to come into contact with skills and technologies that are powering the digitalisation of industry. This the objective of Accademia Industria 4.0, a project that combines schooling and work experience, devised and implemented by Schneider Electric.

Here in a nutshell are the results of a survey carried out by API (Association of Small and Medium Enterprises) in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Italia, in occasion of the event “API: innovation for the industry 4.0”, held in Milan in March.

Customized and top-of-the-range solutions for company safety: ERIGO is an authoritative benchmark in protecting industrial plants against the risk of explosion of powders.

Courage is all you need… Perhaps it wasn’t even true in the times of Gabriele D’Annunzio, but you certainly need a lot more than that in a globalised and competitive market like today’s that continues to be evermore demanding. As a precautionary measure, one had better add methods of control and improvement of the industrial processes as well as reduction of waste, like Lean Six Sigma. This seems…

Automation provides the flexibility that is needed to progressively reduce product batch numbers down to the smallest levels, and ultimately to a single unit - reaching the utopian goal of product personalisation. Dennis Verhoeven reviews how the demands of highly regulated market sectors, such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices - and increasingly, the food and beverage industry, define the pace…

«Our success is based on honest dealing, hard work, common purpose and quality of products».

The Fameccanica Group is diversifying its activities and focussing on the liquid filling industry, using a 4.0 approach to technological solutions and services. An example of what can be done by combining the knowhow and the organization of a large industrial concern with the determination and the skills of a small and close-knit group of specialists. Stefano Lavorini

Printing inks and the like.
Courage is all you need… Perhaps it wasn’t even true in the times of Gabriele D’Annunzio, but you certainly need a lot more than that in a globalised and competitive market like today’s that continues to be evermore demanding. As a precautionary measure, one had better add methods of control and improvement of the industrial processes as well as reduction of waste,…

With more than a year to go, over 600 concerns have confirmed in the first round of registrations that they will be participating in Plast 2018, an international show for the plastic and rubber materials industry that will be held in Milan on 29 May - 1 June 2018, as part of the Innovation Alliance.

Capsulit Spa (Roncello, MB), a leading supplier of closure systems for the pharmaceutical and parapharmaceutical sectors, participated in CPHI in Barcelona last October with much to show for it.

1,310.8 million euros in earnings, 185.1 million EBITDA before non-recurring expenses, 179.2 million EBITDA. Also: a consolidated order portfolio worth 766.2 million euros and net debt of 99.9 million euros.

The flagship product of a range of premium virgin fiber cartons marketed by Stora Enso, Ensocoat guarantees superior whiteness and gloss for excellent graphic yield, regardless of finishing technique.

As of 10 January 2017, Contract Italia Srl is part of the Automation Address company of Monza (MI).

Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.  What on earth makes me do it? This is the question that many, if not all, set themselves in an attempt to attribute sense to their own life experience.

Cosmoprof North America (Las Vegas, 9-11 June 2017) offers new content and initiatives to develop the packaging & OEM industries.

A busy autumn of important events for PET Engineering (San Vendemiano, TV), committed to “exporting” creativity and innovation abroad in the triple role of organizers, exhibitors and sponsors.

Nearing its tenth year in business, the reseller of the best brands of side channel vacuum pumps, compressors and blowers, Service Air (Cesano Maderno, MB) is expanding its operations with new storage facilities, proving that, after a difficult period, the low pressure and industrial vacuum services sector is recovering.

Sidel*, a company that interprets the theme of sustainability holistically, contributes with a critical look at how packaging is designed and distributed, and the effect on purchasing trends and the development of PET containers.
* Nicholas Bloch (Executive Vice President, Communications, Sidel)