Machines

The SPS fair in Parma was an opportunity to meet Horst-Dieter Kraus, Marketing Manager of Pilz GmbH & Co. Kg. ItaliaImballaggio did not miss the opportunity to address the “safety & security” theme in Italy and in Europe with one of the sector leaders, also seeking to know its future development plans.

With increasing automation, intelligent control of the flow of goods in conveyor systems also plays an increasingly important role.

The Linearteck Litek® linear modules, with both screw and belt movement (with wheels on shafts or ball bearing trolleys), are an innovative and customizable solution, which adapts to the most varied needs and methods of use: fast or slow, rigid or flexible, double or single guide, with profiled or recirculating ball bearings.

The new icotek KEL-DPZ 16 fairlead strip, now available on the market, is compatible with 16-pin connector openings, a size that allows easy and quick passage of cables, which can be inserted and sealed in a small space up to a maximum number of 34 (with a diameter from 1.5 to 16.2 mm).

Reer presents the new MA4 expansion module of the Mosaic family, which allows any analog type sensor to be connected to the system.

Finnish group Ahlstrom-Munksjö is proposing a valid alternative to single-use plastic straws with the launch of a new fibre-based paper drinking straw solution called CelluStraw™.

New features and responsive interface for the e-commerce that revolutionizes the world of mechanics. Weerg presents itself with a new release, which enhances its offer with exclusive online services.

Implemented in more than 200 production sites worldwide, SunColorBox by Sun Chemical is an exclusive set of tools and services that enables consistent and accurate digital color communication throughout the entire packaging supply chain, with all the printing technologies and on any substrate.

Ideal for packaging food and beverages in a controlled atmosphere, Atlas Copco's NGP and NGP+ molecular sieve nitrogen generators guarantee low operating costs and nitrogen purity levels from 95 to 99.999%.

Serialization systems and European legislation.
The obligation to adhere to the standards required by the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD)  started on 9 February, meaning it’s serialization time for the European pharmaceutical products market. MG2's technological response.

Free-floating movers with six degrees of freedom. Mover flottanti a sei gradi di libertà. Thanks to planar movers that float freely above arbitrarily arranged planar tiles it is possible to obtain extremely flexible, precise and highly dynamic positioning. The XPlanar system by Beckhoff is opening up new avenues in machine and plants design, ensuring maximum flexibility and simplification.

Industry 4.0: reflections emerged from the comparison with some protagonists of the SMART area of Cosmopack. The word goes to Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini Group (Supply of complete lines and machines for packaging pharmaceutical and cosmetics products).

Our excursus on Industry 4.0 starts with a company in some ways anomalous in the SMART area of Cosmopack: in fact Nastri-Tex does not produce "hard" machines for manufacturing cosmetics, but provides a fundamental consumable for creating make-up and therefore essential to the success of the "packaging system" as a whole.

According to Franco Comoli, president of CMI Industries, speaking of Industry 4.0 means talking about rules and methods to implement digital end-to-end processes, with the aim of increasing productivity and controlling costs, and this applies as much to the machine manufacturer as to the user.

The functions of Industry 4.0, within FT System, and of the Arol group of which the company is a part, have been implemented following two main directions: the first is to integrate the inspection and control systems with the other machines in the line to optimize their operation; the second is aimed at monitoring the functioning of individual machines to retrieve information for predictive…

A group of researchers from the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (CNR-ISASI), the Institute for Composite Polymers and Biomaterials (CNR-IPCB) and the Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare of the Italian Technology Institute in Naples (CABHC-IIT) has developed a process for creating a very thin film capable of enclosing and sealing volumes of water or water-based…

To celebrate its "twenty years of Cosmopack", Omas Tecnosistemi has done things on a big scale. In addition to presenting the most recent developments of mixers and tube filling machines, an automatic monoblock for filling mascara and lipgloss and a monoblock for perfumes with roll-on, the company made a significant contribution to the Factory 2019 "NO-CO- no compromise" (where, together with…

The evolution of ELECTRIC: Thus IDM Automation Srl presented itself at the 2019 edition of Cosmopack, bringing to the fair the e-MF302, a fully electric plastic and glass bottle filling machine, which integrates two Mitsubishi scara robots, one dedicated to loading and one to unloading of the bottles.

The 4.0 of Italian manufacturers. Dossier realized with the contribution of Nastri Tex, Marchesini Group, CMI, IDM Automation, Omas Tecnosistemi, FT System. By Stefano Lavorini, Luciana Guidotti and Chiara Giannangeli.

Measuring gas concentrations inside sealed packaging without piercing and producing unnecessary waste.