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Ronchi at Pack Expo 2011 in Las Vegas

From 26 to 28 September Ronchi will attend Pack Expo 2011 in Las Vegas. More powerful solutions in packaging and processing than any event in North America!
In three days at one powerful event, you and your colleagues will: evaluate the compatibility of the latest innovations with your product lines, see flexible packaging and processing machinery in action, on the show floor and discover cutting-edge total systems solutions, processing equipment, operations software, packaging machinery, converting machinery, materials and containers, plus the latest advances in secure packaging, printing and graphics, and instrumentation.

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet us!

On Summer it’s energy drink time.

In Italy the energy drink business it’s young and very small, but it’s grown in the last years.

The sale is being made in peculiar place, like club or rest areas, but today also the retail gives space to that invigorating kind of drinks.

There are lots of competitors who work towards tempting packaging to attract customers, especially the younger.

A glass of good fruit juice

Enriched with vitamins, fibres of salts, fruit juices and fruit-based drinks are nowadays part of our everyday habits in terms of beverage.
In order to answer these new trends in beverage consumption, filling technologies have been introduced by the packaging operators to ensure high production outputand packages to guarantee cost reduction, by replacing glass or bricks with PET, PP or HDPE bottles.
Usually, these containers do not allow the pasteurization of the product or its hot filling. That’s the reason why the packaging operators have opted towards the cold aseptic preparation and filling.
Working in condition of cold aseptic filling means having to sterilize separately the product, as well as the container and its closure. The environment where this process is done must be hygienically protected.
Containers are sanitized, rinsed with sterile water, filled with thermo-stabilized product, closed: all this is achieved in a sterile environment.
At the end, the finished product is conveyed to the labelling and packing operations.

Where is „drinking“ packaging going to ?

 

According to a survey carried out by the English Company Canadean  (Innovation in Beverage Packaging 2008), beverage industry is undergoing deep changes targeting the improvement of the packaging, the reduction of the effective costs and the raw material saving.
As a matter of fact, nowadays beverage tends towards the maximum reduction of weight and quantity of the employed materials for its production, by utilizing advanced technological processes to reach highest quality levels, however assuring functionality  and eco-compatibility as well.
The survey analyzes excellence cases pointing out the new tendency: from contrivances for the shape variation till the development of new production technology: the set-up of new capping systems reduced in weight and shape, so as to be easily adapted to different drinks, and the perfectioning of the decorative techniques applied to the surface.

Billions of PET containers on the table, and not only!

350 billions units: this should bet he quantity of PET containers produced this year, according to Euromonitor, a London based company specialised in market researches. Out of these containers, many are utilized in the beverage industry, whereas PET confirms to bet he most used material in the world.
Side-by-side to the constant increase of the PET bottle utilisation, the importance of the factor of efficiency and profitability in the production of PET containers grows-up as well: this requirement is fully satisfied by the manufacturers of filling and packing machinery, which offers technologically advanced solutions allowing to save space and costs.
Among its features, it is a quite light material (40 grams approx per a 1.5L bottle), unbreakable and 100% recyclable.
For instance, the amount of companies utilizing bottles for cosmetics in recycled PET are in constant growth. In fact, the new technologies ensure the same mechanical properties of the raw PET and a similar brightness, without giving up to capturing packaging thanks to a wide possibilities of decorative subjects.