Materials and machinery

More than 170,000 visitors, 2,320 exhibitors, with foreign visitors up 5% (5 new Country Pavilions - Mexico, California, Brazil, Netherlands and Romania - which bring the number of producer country collective presentations at the Fair to 20). The successful moment of the beauty industry and “its” show: Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna.

Lightweight, economical, sustainable: a "bundle" of benefits from Krones.
 Krones places the onus on the strapping system LitePac made with the machine EvoLite, presenting it as the first and only "real" transport packaging innovation over the last 30 years. Its originality and effectiveness have been highlighted by an award (the Logistics packaging Oscar), but aboveall by the market approval…

Long live the red Italian chicory in its news paperboard tray. Vouched for by the Consortium.

Valco Melton celebrates 60 years of leadership in the most advanced adhesive dispensing and quality inspection technologies.

Single-dose inhalers for capsules: a consolidated tradition with ample growth prospects. By Plastiape, a latest generation single-dose per capsule inhaler, ideal platform for a wide range of inhalant medicines.

When a tried and tested technology contributes to creating a success story… The case of Cama-Ozersky: from Italy to Russia, pick and place featuring efficiency.

This month, our “Did you know that…?” column is taking a look at some problems and solutions in the world of beverages, focusing especially on rotating bottling lines. Here are a few examples:

In my ideal Mulino ... The biscuit packs? Put them with the paper!

HOT MELT Robatech has devised RobaVis™, a programming interface that enables the management of all its hotmelt applicators and the graphic display of the production processes: a cutting-edge tool that provides high benefits.

For the industrial concerns that demand maximum flexibility in terms of logistics and warehouse management, Robopac offers the new Robot S6.

FOR WORKING What are the standards and the good manufacturing practises for self-adhesive labels for food contact? And how does one emerge unscathed from the “price war” underway in the sector, where small labeling concerns have to stand up to jumbo sized suppliers and customers? Telling questions which were answered at the 22nd Gipea Technical Convention.

Sacmi Labelling has closed 2011 with all its indicators on the up and is stepping up its R&D. Among the new features a labeling machine with “extreme” modularity, while the manufacturer is starting up the production of the new roll-fed sleever with laser sealing.

For its new research center in Parma, Chiesi has adopted more than 100 drives (at a power between 0.75 and 55 kW) produced by Control Techniques, whose technical skills and consulting services have been again appreciated.

Various heterogeneous automation technologies can be network linked to create integrated and coordinated solutions. This is demonstrated by the experience of the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG), whose automation “philosophy” has been embraced by automation producers of international standing, including B&R, and by many machine builders.

The 2011 edition of Cibus Tec (October 18th-21st), the international food industry technology and solutions show, registered in Parma an increase of exhibitors (7%) and of visitors (10%).

What way is the wind blowing in the packaging sector? What do machine manufacturers and end users want? How can we stay competitive in today's market
Living right inside this world day by day, as specialists, we are fully aware of the specific challenges of automation in relation to the process, packaging, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.

Announced the 20 women’s and men’s finalists of the 23rd edition of the 2012 international award dedicated to selective perfumery (organized by Unipro), to which we will give visibility in the March issue of our magazine.