Machines

ELECTRON BEAM CURING Why and how to use electron beam curing for hardening surface coatings. Update at the RadTechEurope conference. David Helsby

Ferrarini & Benelli, a leading designer and producer of corona treatment plants, presents at K 2013 with a positive trend of order collection in the last half year under its belt, launching various new products.

PGS-Pool Graphic Service makes its debut as a network of companies able to install, service and repair printing and converting machines. But also, and increasingly, to offer complete cutting edge systems for the converting industry, featuring the best brands.

Established manufacturer of rollers for printing presses, extrusion, lamination, coating, winding, drying and much more, L’Artigiana Srl (San Giorgio su Legnano, MI) accelerates its custom and consulting design service, and the growing importance of competitive added value bears witness to this.

Slider Pack Srl will be presenting, at K Düsseldorf, a new patented tool for the automatic insertion of the cursor on PE, PVC and PP zips in different sizes. The system, developed by the Milanese concern (headquartered in Cerchiate di Pero), handles plastic sliders of various kinds: SP, SPZ, SC, SF, SFC.

Euromac, one of the leading producers of high-end slitter rewinders, this year celebrate their 45th anniversary with record breaking machine production results.

Daroitex Srl (Santorso VI) has developed the high speed HS-500 slitter for cutting multiple longitudinal nonwoven and spun-bond fabrics in at least 18 mm wide strips, with single or double rolling.

With RobaVis™ the Swiss multinational Robatech, specialised in the development and production of tools for applying adhesives, offers users a tactile screen to simplify the functioning of its hotmelt applicators, increasing their productivity.

PARTNERSHIP Laem System and Eutro Log look ahead and join forces. Presented in a joint open house, the new high-performance slitter-rewinder and a fully automated system for the management of finished rolls.

Zund confirms its orientation towards modularity and flexibility and presents the new Tandem Vacuum System.

Called ADW drives series and developed by RTA Srl (Marcignago, PV) to serve the multiple applications that require flexibility and precision in adjusting motor rotation speed, these drives include an evolved speed control solution - the Intelligent Speed Controller - which allows continuous adjustment through an analog signal, or discretely by choosing from one of 64 bottom-of-the-scale pre-…

Image S presented at SPS the new JAI 3CCD color camera: a progressive scan and area model, able to detect even the slightest variations in color at speeds of 120 frames per second.

CONTROLS IN LINE Better performance, supplementary functionality and a broader range of models: Omron is launching FQ2, the new version of the FQ vision sensor, capable of tackling the most complex inspection and traceability applications.

Marchesini Group offers proof of its skills in creating complete track & trace solutions for pharmaceutical products in the name of flexibility and reliability through the new and unique line for vials produced for a renowned multinational enterprise of the Pharma industry.


Traceability is set to become a key factor for all operators in the pharmaceutical industry. Some solutions proposed by automatic machine builders to comply with the impending regulations.

Human protection Valmatic single-dose packs are part of the packaging range of Deisa Ebano Spa, which employs them for a newly conceived product in the Zig Zag line that is effective against pesky insect bites.

AIPIA mission: to decimate supply chain costs and increase members' turnover by the implementation of high tech solutions in packaging

Once again demonstrating its role as a historic and privileged partner of OEMs in the packaging sector, Schneider Electric presented the latest advancements of the PacDrive 3 offer, within the the MachineStruxure platform, and of Plantstruxure, in which, within the same environment, all data relating to energy and the production process are analyzed. Objective: maximum facility optimization.

EXPERIENCE What do a capsuling machine and a palletisor have in common? The builder’s knowhow. With fifty years’ experience with processing and packaging machinery in the pharmaceutical sector, MG2 applies its advanced solutions technology to end of line applications. The latest developments below.

Beckhoff’s embedded PC CX8093 features a Profinet-RT Device interface, implemented via 2-port switch for executing daisy-chain wiring. This solution enables configuring a virtual device, which makes it possible to double the amount of process data, or to connect a second Profinet Controller.