Machines

... and develops a technology with Fine Art print quality that sets new standards for digital printing.

«We decided to focus our design and innovation efforts on converting about ten years ago in order to satisfy the requests of our customers», explains Luca Rettore, who together with Mirco Cremasco owns Visonlab (Asolo, TV). Both are experts in artificial vision and acutely aware of the potentials of electronics applied to process and quality control systems.

The market of trays for food products and fresh produce has precise productivity and reliabiilty requirements that inevitably also affect the gluing phase.

The Compact model linear self-adhesive labeler (the latest creation by Packlab, P.E. Labellers group, is conceived as a solution suitable for whoever has problems with space.

The innovative flexible parts feed system developed by Ars Srl under the Flexibowl® brand will be distributed on foreign markets by Adept Technology Inc., an international leader in the field of robots and vision systems.

ROBOTIZED ISLANDS Tiesse Robot has developed an innovative solution for automatic bottle capping for cosmetic products. With a vision system that totally guarantees quality.

EVERYTHING IN A MODULE How to drastically contain maintenance costs and maximize productivity? B&R suggest the use of predictive strategies based on permanent condition monitoring. A function this totally integrated in its traditional control systems.

PRODOTTI AND STRATEGIES The Omron’s Sysmac platform includes a wide and optimised range of devices integrable in EtherCAT, which enables the automatic, integrated, speedy and accurate control of all machine functions.

A POWERFUL ALLIANCE Sight is the most complex of all the senses found in biological or artificial systems. At the same time vision provides the greatest benefit. There is a good reason that processing visual stimuli consumes the most energy in the brain, involving approximately 60% of the cerebral cortex. Abdelmalek Nasraoui*

Seen and awarded: the SpectroPad color spectrophotometer launched at Drupa by Barbieri Electronic (Bressanone, BZ) has already won a prize for innovation, namely the European Digital Press Association (in the photo, the EDP prize handed over to Wolfgang Passler, on the left, and Thomas Liensberger).

De Rossi Vittoriano Srl (Paderno Dugnano, MI) has developed a new system for the production of multi-layer labels (coupons, booklets etc.), adapted for insertion in all printing machine types.

Re SpA Controlli Industriali (Bussero, MI) has developed an innovative tension control system called T-four, that is capable of precisely adjusting the tension of increasingly light materials, even at high speeds, both in closed and in open loop systems.

After having established itself on the international market for coating plates with polyurethane printing layer and compressible underplates, Kruse (San Mauro Torinese, TO) has developed new products for users of rubber sheets and rubber plates in coating.

Interest in the web-to-print is growing and a successful operator in the sector, Pixartprinting, is able to give exhaustive answers to questions from potential users. It does so in a systematic and detailed way on its website (www.pixartprinting.it) and also from the pages of ItaliaImballaggio. In this issue, updates about the ability to print labels "online": a service put in place recently and…

In this month's column, we're looking at the subject of diagnostics and preventive maintenance.

APTIV® films made by Victrex Polymer Solutions (world-ranking producer of high performance poliarileterketons) have been successfully used by the German company S+P Samson GmbH to produce labels used in particular on medical equipment.

UPM Raflatac has introduced a new filmic face for beverage, wine and food labelling.

In 2011, the famous French Champagne producer G.H. MUMM bought a labelling machine being the top of P.E. Labellers’ range, i.e. a labeller of modular design equipped with five stations being installed on a carriage and working simultaneously, as well as a non-stop system that allows the highest operativeness, productivity and effectiveness level to be achieved.

The new KDL/M Murrplastik Systemtechnik (Oppenweiler, DE) cable entry and holding system greatly simplifies the installation of pre-assembled cables (1). It also features a cable entry system with IP 54 class protection.

Today, Valco Melton is one of the world’s leading, industry standards in packaging adhesive application systems for hot melt dispensing, cold gluing, and quality inspection systems.