Machines

Direct field experience and constant staff update: DCM's responses to the needs of machine builders.

Beckhoff now offers a machine learning (ML) solution that is seamlessly integrated into TwinCAT 3 software.

Logistics and end of line: Robopac and Ocme solutions at the Caviro plant in Forlì (50 million bottles and over 24 million briks per year).

Xeikon, a division of Flint Group, is proposing a new digital printing solution for stand-up pouches in the food, beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

EyeC (Hamburg, Germany) is extending its range of inspection systems for half-size print sample testing with the market launch of the scanner EyeC Proofiler 900 DT.

Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2019: the event continues to grow, and the results confirm that it is a landmark event exhibition the global beauty  industry.

The contest Cosmoprof e Cosmopack Awards - the initiative of Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna curated in partnership with Beautystreams - involves all the beauty sectors, and is increasingly gaining recognition among opinion leaders and key players in the world of cosmetics.

Interroll (SIX Swiss Exchange), a leading Swiss manufacturer of handling solutions, has supplied five crossbelt sorters to Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics (SPPAL), a longstanding customer that had already made similar orders in the past.

Developed by Omas Tecnosistemi, FLEXICAP is an innovative capsule assembly machine for liquids, solubles or coffee: it is available in different models, from a minimum of 2 rows up to 120 capsules/minute, to a maximum of 8 rows up to 450 capsules/minute depending on the format and the product to be dosed.

The british company Huel offers customers nutritionally complete meals with a mission surrounding convenience.

The RobaFeed3 automatic loading system and the GlueFill granule adhesive container installed on the Robatech hot melt glue melters improve operator safety, reduce downtime and optimize productivity. This is confirmed by Schützengarten AG, a Swiss beer producer who, in 2016, integrated them on its dry area plants.

BOBST, a supplier of machinery and services for packaging and label production specialising in the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible materials sectors, hosted an event entitled BOBST Labels & Packaging Innovation  in Florence from 1 to 4 April where it presented Ink-on-Demand (IoD) and DigiColor, two revolutionary solutions that will transform the established flexo process.

Spreafico Automation  (IMA Group) and University of Milan (Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences) join forces for a research project on coffee capsules for the study of the properties of self-protected capsules and the role of protective atmospheres in the shelf life

Active for over 30 years on the international packaging market, BTP (Zanica, BG) produces heat-sealed single-dose sachets (shaped, with resealable cap, multiple with tear, stand up, with hole, flowpack ...) designed for the cosmetic, herbal, parapharmaceutical sectors and for large retailers.

Pharmapack Europe (UBM EMEA) dedicato al pharmaceutical packaging and drug delivery (Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, France 6-7 February, 2019) saw a diversification of innovations and new drug delivery solutions, with “patient-centricity” emerging as the central theme throughout this year’s edition.

Schreiner MediPharm has combined its expertise in innovative specialty labels and integrated solutions with folding box manufacturer Edelmann.

At the last edition of Cosmopack Etipack exhibited “4.0” machinery and labeling systems for Industry 4.0.

With over 40 years’ experience designing and building electronic systems for industrial coding and marking, in 2017 EIDOS was acquired by the German company NOVEXX Solutions.

With PITmode Fusion, Pilz Italia offers a combined, modular and flexible system for the safe selection of the operating mode up to Pld (Programmable Logic Device) and the control of plant and machinery access authorisation.

From the collaboration between SEW-EURODRIVE and the system integrator Cubar an AGV with anthropomorphic robot was born.