Machines

Once mainly tied to vending, monodose capsules and packs are now progressively gaining hold in the widescale retail trade, accompanying the traditional offer of ground or granulated coffee. Spreafico, the builder of machines for packaging coffee and solubles, analyses the trend and proposed solutions in line with the needs of the new global market.

Every year, about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted.

Investing in research to guarantee effective advanced products with strict quality control and attention to the environment: with these attractive features, the Tuscan Fabo has gained a spot on the European scene as a producer of adhesive tapes with a proud history of over 40 years.

A low initial investment, low maintenance costs and very high performance are what characterize the solutions offered by P.E. Labellers, which presented two outstanding labelers at Simei.

Compact, accurate and fast: Cut-TAPE is the new electronic bench mounted dispenser for the automatic distribution of tapes (adhesive/biadhesive and other types). A real practical aid, fast and indispensable, for both assembling and closing small and lightweight packs. Cut-TAPE is an addition to the company’s range of electronic bench mounted tape dispensers that include the PS2/A and Minitape…

Featuring among the full range of solutions for labeling glass or plastic bottles and cans, at Simei Z-Italia placed on show “Z-adhesive”, the adhesive roto labeling machine for stamps and back labels, especially devised for the wines and spirits sector, with automatic roll change without production stoppage.

Hitachi enters the world of laser with a high performance compact machine, the LM CO2 Laser, which Marking Products (its exclusive distributor for Italy) brought to the recent edition of the international bottling systems fair Simei, proposing it as a viable alternative to inkjet.

Markem-Imaje launches marker Inkjet S 9450, designed to meet the traceability, versatility and hygiene requirements of the beverage industry.

Marko By MR Engineering (Scandiano, RE) designs and builds marking systems for all industrial sectors.

For its new bubble wrap production line, MS - Protective Solution Packaging has chosen a Torninova solution with twin screw extruder, designed by Sysmac of Omron. Performance, economy, versatility: these are the main properties of the system.

B&R e and COMAU celebrate a partnership with major prospects for the future. Indeed, the companies can already boast ten thousand units installed and controlled using B&R technology.

For builders of parallel axis robots, WITTENSTEIN alpha is a qualified partner that knows how to offer just the right transmission system, personalized according to the performance the application requires.

Active in the standard components industry since 1994 with its custom-built, durable systems, Bett Sistemi solves the small/large handling and forwarding problems in the packaging and bottling sections.

Ishida’s IX-GA line of x-ray inspection systems for detecting foreign objects (fragments of bone, rock, glass, iron, steel and dense plastics) offers a selection of models capable of managing various production speeds and packaging formats, types and contents, regardless of temperature or salt and water concentration.

The new Robatech 2FK IT 25/50/75 heads ensure greater flexibility in intermittent surface coating, combining the features of the previous two solutions: the FK-IT nozzles with their own mask technology, and the precision and speed of the SX FK guns.

With the BE line, OMAC intends to expand the range of applications of its lobe pumps, which are fully compliant with hygienic and sanitary standards but at the same time low cost.

Based on an existing TLM packaging system consisting of three sub-machines - and without an electrical cabinet - Gerhard Schubert GmbH will demonstrate how delicate pastry products can be packaged gently and efficiently. On show at ProSweets, Köln.

With the onus on knowledge sharing, an encounter organized by BASF gathered together the stakeholders of an Italian segment of excellence (that of flexible packaging): successful experiences, technological development, new products and future scenarios.

Pixartprinting expands its offer of paper shopping bags with the addition of Bag-Box, which serves as a shopper, box and gift bag all at the same time.

If at drinktec 2009 Krones surprised the beverage industry with ErgoBloc L, the block blow-labeller-filler, now the German manufacturer can rightfully speak of technological success and of the market: last May, in fact, the South Korean company FINE Bio ordered the hundredth example of the system.