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Quick workshops and machines, many machines: at Achema, MG2 will be organizing live venues to illustrate the hi-tech content of its new solutions. Spotlight on MultiNETT (System for measuring in-process net weight) and the GRP robopalettizer, an absolute preview.

At Pharmapack 2012, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) launched several new resins increasing its already substantial range of thermoplastics to meet the strict standards of the medical field.

At the Gerhard Schubert GmbH trade fair stand at Achema in Hall 3.1, Stand G27, the company demonstrates a TLM packaging line for the first time which is so flexible that it can be used to produce batch sizes of one.

Karr Italiana Srl, specialized in the design and creation of volumetric filling machines and units, announces an important new feature concerning their entire range of pneumatic or motorized brushless dosing pumps.

The blister line MB460FAST is the fastest and most flexible blistering machine ever produced by Marchesini. Able to pack 720 blisters per minute, it features innovations of a high technology content.

Specializing in the processing of beet sugar, cane sugar and cereals, Tereos Syral is a cooperative agro-industrial group that can provide a full range of sugars, starches, alcohol, bioethanol and coproducts used in animal food and electrical power.

A Ipack-Ima Thermo Ramsey Italia presented its new latest generation machine for the X-ray control of “flat lying” formats (hence not bottles or cans, but bags, packs, etc.…Ed).

A prefilled hypodermic syringe, devised by the Japanese company Terumo Corp. (Italian branch in Rome), with device for passive protection against accidental pricking, and a new type of “childproof” pack made by the UK concern Burgopak (photo).

Stiavelli (a historic brand and the packaging division of Pavan) presented at Ipack-Ima an updated version of its high speed packaging system for long pasta, consisting in a double doser (SPL-M) with a single lowering feeder made without pneumatic parts: all motion is managed by step motors.

Promens (Italian branch in Lainate, MI) launches Inveo, the new “Inverted Roll-on”, added to the concern’s range of standard roll-ons, which comprises five flacons with different designs.

Krones and Kosme showcased innovative solution for the multifaceted needs of the international beverage industry.

Kraft, Nestlè, Ferrero, Unilever, Bayer, Novartis are just some of the customers, that in over 100 countries around the world, every day use Omag packaging machines. Since 1975, the company, based at Gabice Mare (PU), has been designing and producing sachet filling machines, dispensers and screw conveyors for the food-, pharmaceutical-, cosmetic and nutritional industries. And today speaks of the…

Thanks to ultrasonic forging, SB Slayer industrial blades proposed by Slayer Blades Srl (Oggiona S. Stefano, VA) offer increased tool life (2 to 5 times) according to the application. Developed for use in food processing, they have a reinforced cutting edge in inserted steel. The surface quality is what is more guaranteed by the compression of the material.

Having started off in 1976 as a builder of machines for dosing glues, Tecnicoll evolved with the production of hot dosers for cosmetic products, waxes all round and other products that, to be dosed, have to be melted.

Romaco Siebler (Karlsruhe, D) presents a line for packaging horizontal strips of effervescent tablets in multiple formats with the Siebler FlexTrans FT 400 robotized transfer station between the Siebler HM 1E/240 heatsealer and the Promatic P 91 cartoning machine.

A wide range of CAM integrated packaging and Bohle LB processing machines and system, which ensure high productivity, make the most of human resources and minimize investment costs along the entire lifecycle.

Announced in early February, Marchesini Group SpA’s purchase of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics company PRB SpA regards technologies for the secondary packaging (wrapping-, packers, casepacking, cartoning and palletizing machines) of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

Rewarding operating results for Dalter Food in the first eight months of 2011. The Emilian company, leader in packaging grated cheese and portioned fresh product for ho.re.ca and the food industry, registered a significant increase in volumes (+7%) and turnover (+24%) compared to the same period in 2010.

An almost infinitesimal (0.0001 mm) silicon oxides layer coats the inside of the San Pellegrino 50 cl PET mineral water bottles.

At the fifth edition of ProSweets (Cologne, D, 29th January-1st February 2012) Gerosa Group will be offering one of the most recent innovations in the field of cold seals for food packaging. It is a synthetic “latex-free” cold-seal, developed on the basis of similar products already in use on the U.S. market in the pharmaceutical field, and contains synthetic latex instead of the usual natural…