Machines

The WITTENSTEIN cyber® dynamic line three-phase sinusoidal excitation mini brushless servo motors are now also available in a Hygienic Design version.

The many man-machine safety solutions presented at SPS/IPC/Drives Italia by Masautomazione also featured the control sensor for double metal laminate sheet foil (stainless steel, copper, ferrous and non ferrous metals etc.) with gauges of 0.025 mm up to approx. 1 cm, produced by the US company Prime Controls Inc.

The case of Art Cosmetics, the Bergamo-based make-up creator that is growing at a rate of 30% each year: thanks to Overlog and Tecnest’s integrated software each and every workphase is now computerised, guaranteeing more control, safety and quality.

Cooperation and innovation go hand-in-hand in bringing good results. Ronchi & Bosch Rexroth have pooled their core knowhow, the first as a filling and capping machine builder, the latter as a supplier of automation systems. This has allowed them to grow, leading to the joint creation of an innovatory electronic cam capping machine, previewed at this year’s interpack.

A demonstration model that incorporates the best of the factory automation offer, showing several interdependent moving and handling elements: on show at Parma the Sew Eurodrive M2014.

At SPS the PNI (Profibus Network Italy) consortium presented its technical and scientific training and education activities and latest updates on member company products.

Rockwell Automation confirms SPS as privileged venue for launching the most innovatory technologies and trends of industrial automation.

Developed by Robatech, RobaFeedTM is a completely integrated and automated feed system for adhesives in granulate form that enables continuous filling of the melting tank while guaranteeing high work safety standards.

An advanced rotational platform, an entirely mechanical movement, for assembling cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging components, regarding medical devices and many other applications.

Bosch Rexroth now offers the VarioFlow Plus conveyor system, in which an innovative multi-vertebrate chain makes all the difference. There are numerous advantages for users, starting from the easy configuration in limited spaces.

The Istituto Italiano Imballaggio will be dedicating three update encounters to the delicate and focal matter of food contact packaging.

The Gerosa Group, international leader in converting flexible packaging, has developed a new re-lock solution for creating reclosable packaging, capable of guaranteeing at greater length the integrity and freshness of products.

Sustainability and safety are core concepts in all converting processes, first and foremost those involving food products.

Ilip è tra i protagonisti dello spazio Innovationparc Packaging, che Interpack 2014 ha dedicato a Save Food, l’iniziativa lanciata da Messe Düsseldorf in collaborazione con FAO per combattere lo spreco alimentare.

A World Fair (Interpack) and an Open Factory (Flat-Bologna, May 5th to 23rd) to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Marchesini Group, showcasing the solutions that have made the history of the company along with the new machines made with the most advanced Italian technology.

Scatolificio Cristina Srl has managed to automate the last stage of the production of transparent pyramidal packaging. This is an absolute first, that marries a recherché style shape to an industrial process, and thus enables cost and aboveall packaging assembly time reduction (all to the advantage of its customers).

Aware of the potential and benefits of direct on line digital printing, Krones AG is presenting DecoType: a system of decoration for plastic bottles (but a model for glass is also under development) that meets the requirements of flexibility and decoration associated with the growing product personalisation, the relative reduction lot sizes and the consequent problems of organization and cost…

World premier at Interpack for the new generation of packaging systems proposed by the Cama, that has developed a different and original design concept. The result? Greater loading efficiency and flexibility with a magnetic carrier system and robotized loading island in co-flow with a patented software anti-collision system.

Antimicrobial additives, traditionally used in the medical and pharmaceutical sector for manufacturing clothing, transfusion bags, plastic containers and devices etc are gaining ground in various other fields, food first and foremost (but also furnishing, baby products and anywhere where hygiene and healthiness are a must).

Zip-Pak presents the latest proposals for flexible packaging, in particular featuring Sensus: the prime line of “multisensorial” closures that stimulate hearing, sight,  as well as offering olfactory and haptic sensations to the consumer.