Clariant, with The Healthcare Packaging business unit, announces a combination of “active” and “passive” packaging solutions that protect the potency and extend the shelf life of probiotics in nutraceutical products by inhibiting their exposure to damaging oxygen, moisture and light.
Karr offers a volumetric dosing system with 4 ports with brushless motor drive designed in accordance with the highest hygiene standards, guaranteeing complete suitability for food sector applications.
A leading food&drink multinational that has several plants across the USA (with dairy and ready to drink tea bottling lines) has installed and started up just recently the LVS360 system equipped with the CVS360-3D module developed by Sacmi’s Automation & Service Division.
Bonduelle Italia breathes new life into the fresh cut shelf with its unique Gusto&Vitalità product concept, the perfect answer for people interested in leading a healthy and modern lifestyle.
A vision system and Omron Delta robots guarantee excellent performance for a multi-color sweet bell pepper packaging installation at Combilo, with productivity exceeding conventional lines by as much as 30%. The protagonists and the results achieved.
Icon doubles. To the next Ipack Ima Tradex (Gallarate, VA) will be bringing the new iCON2, a very reliable and extremely robust laser marker, which ensures high performance at competitive prices.
Even in a world that has become increasingly virtual and digital, safeguarding the physical integrity of some products - in particular the pharmaceutical ones - is fundamental.
An elegant and business-grade rugged design for ScanPalTM EDA70, the tablet by Honeywell (7’’ display, real-time connectivity, rapid data acquisition capability, high-level reliability and protection), marketed by Eurocoding (Gallarate, VA).
The standardized Cognex In-Sight Explorer software platform is available across the entire range of vision systems from low-end to high end. Cécile Jacquin
A look at regulatory compliance in light of new requirements introduced at the “glocal” level, on the possibility of marketing these materials in certain regions. Focus on the controversial relationship between legislation and industry. Sidebar: reflections on the International Conference on Food Contact Compliance (Baveno, Italy, September 2017)
by Marinella Vitulli
Sidel and Gebo Cermex (part of the Sidel Group) have been showcasing their Agility 4.0 TM programme at Drinktec 2017.
In line with the plan that entails the adoption of intelligent cyber - physical solutions and increased automation in production plants, the Agility 4.0 programme has a pragmatic approach to manufacturing, developed with a view to achieving three overall benefits: improved…
For over 27 years, Veronapack has produced very high quality corrugated cardboard dividers and solid board separators that guarantee maximum protection of transported goods.
No simple path but a highly stimulating one that undertaken by Forpac in order to develop Styron, a highly innovative technological project that looks at the world of packaging with an eye to eco-sustainability, and one for which the firm has chosen SEW-Eurodrive for its automation solutions.
From 17,000 to 50,000 euro a year: these are the savings obtained by the Ilpa Group -Ilip division, a manufacturer of thermoformed rigid plastic for the food sector, by introducing Atlas Copco pneumatic technology.
Tankless melters with adhesive flow rate control by Nordson adopted on the CM-OPM secondary packaging unit Smartcell increase flexibility and ergonomics of the plant.
Bernd Neumann
