Materials and machinery

To offer a comprehensive response to the authenticity, integrity and security needs of the pharmaceutical industry, Weber Marking Systems and Retinae have collaborated to develop a complete solution for serializing, sealing and branding pharmaceutical cartons. Centralization of functions is combined with a small device footprint in a state-of-the-art integrated system.

An innovative component ready for integration into industrial machines, Oriental Motor's new EH Series electric gripper has ease of use and reliability as its strong points.

In spite of the extraordinarily difficult social context and the economic slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Famar Tec has recorded a constantly growing turnover in the last period, mainly on non-European markets.

MG2 opens the doors of its remote and virtual Technical Support Service to Roemmers Laboratories. And, even in this case, the personalized approach with the formulation of customized proposals is a winner.

From Sun Chemical, the range of SunVisto Aquagreen inks for food packaging, produced with a high percentage of raw material from vegetable sources. The high bio-renewable content (BRC) is proven by carbon isotope C14 analysis.

Industry 4.0 solutions: customers of Assis-tec can optimise their daily production process by combining the new Robofeed and IXON’s Cloud Logging and CloudNotify.

Omron's IX3 Parallel Robot is ideal for primary and secondary packaging applications in the food & beverage, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

Affordable and flexible industrial communication networks support ever-increasing data flows, and reliable networking technology is indispensable for successful digitisation.

Datalogic introduces the P2x series smart camera, which combines outstanding performance with the flexibility of a complete vision system. 

Designed for logistics, warehousing, e-commerce and material recycling applications, the suction cups of the new Piab MX range are suitable for picking objects of different materials and surfaces. 

The Lombardy-based company based in Assago (MI), Karr Italiana Srl announces its collaboration with Modena-based Marotta Evolution Srl, to which it will supply the dosing systems to be integrated on the latest generation of automatic machines for the production of burrata.

To package its fine baked goods into flowpacks, an Alsatian confectionery manufacturer opted for a compact robotic line from Schubert with flexible format changeover and able to work with different types of film - plastic, paper-based, mono film or compostable - always with sustainability in the foreground.

NORD DRIVESYSTEMS presents DuoDrive, a gearmotor with a revolutionary hygienic wash-down design: the IE5+ synchronous motor and the NORDBLOC.1 single-stage right-angle gearbox are integrated in a single housing.

Amarc: cast-in aluminum heaters used in packaging machines. by Stefano Lavorini

The wine producer CAVIRO once again chooses OCME and Robopac (Aetna Group) branded systems for the logistic and end-of-line efficiency of its Forlì plant, from palletising to the preparation of shipping bays.

Maximum productivity, process reliability and extreme compactness. These are the advantages of the WITTENSTEIN alpha servo actuator series, which are ideal for integration in primary packaging applications (e.g. on blister machines) and secondary packaging applications (on shrink wrappers or Delta robots, etc.).

Oriental Motor introduces its new BMU and BLE2 series brushless speed control systems. Complete with dedicated drive, they are often used for the movement of conveyor belts, screw conveyors and other applications where constant torque, small size, low heating and stable speed control are essential prerogatives for proper operation. 

A showroom always open to those who show interest in novelties and the exchange of ideas: with this praiseworthy initiative, Livetech demonstrates in the field the technological advances of its machines, in particular of two secondary packaging systems with robotized islands and independent handling trolleys.

IMA Ilapak continues to invest in technological innovation for pre-cut salad packaging. The ultrasonic sealing technology adopted on VFFS allows to reduce the environmental impact in this delicate segment of the food industry.

The planar motor system XPlanar combines the advantages of conventional transport technologies with magnetic levitation. The levitating product transport enables a wide range of new options for handling products within a machine and also between several machines.