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February 11th, 2009

Identity of the brand goes through fragrance

Task of a fragrance is to donate a specific olfactory note to a great variety of products, spanning from the cosmetics and toiletries to the house-hold products, from detergents to ambient deodorants. In some of these applications fragrance, alone, imprints character and identity to a product

Ronchi, thanks to a modern technological solution, has realized a series of fillers allowing the in-line mixing of more fragrances to the basic product, during the same working cycle.

Look how it works, click on the video

February 10th, 2009

RONCHI Fillers : when numbers are clear

1. More than 40 years of experience in filling technology.

2. A 5.000 squared meters wide testing area at the Gessate-Milan-Italy based plant.

3. More than 400 flow-meter fillers installed and operating all over the world.

4. 1000 different types of product filled.

5. High production speed: up to  600 b.p.m.

6. Highest filling accuracy: 0,2% max. standard deviation.

7. Filling volumes spanning from  5 ml to 10.000 ml. and more.

8. Possibility of handling highly viscous products: 50.000 cPs and more.

9. Product change-over: max 15 litres against more than 250 litres residual in a rotary reservoir.

10. Wash-up and sterilization: max 15 litres against more than 1000 litres in a rotary reservoir.

November 28th, 2008

Roll-on deodorant, descendant of ballpoint pen

Roll-on deodorant was invented at the end of years 1940 in the United States.

The intuition came to Helen Barnett Diserens while observing an invention that at those times was revolutionizing the handwriting: the ballpoint pen

Ink flew perfectly dosed while rolling on a ball. So she thought: why not using the same mechanisms in the cosmetics?

And it is how the roll-on came to light, a system that, from that moment on, has become one of the most utilized applicators worldwide.

In pocket version, ergonomic shapes, dosing practicality, the roll-on is a quite committing challenge for the packaging conditioning companies, as it requires more and more sophisticated filling and capping solutions.

November 4th, 2008

Excellence fillers thanks to the flow-meter technology

The incomparable experience in the application of the filling technology by means of flow-meters introduced by Ronchi in the early nineties has enhanced the reputation of the filling lines manufactured by the Italian company to be the main reference in the forefront of  the weight and volumetric filling lines available on the worldwide marketplace.  (more…)

November 3rd, 2008

Taste of wine starts from its label

Beverage Packaging

A filler is not a necessary to fill a glass of good wine and taste it.

However, a good packaging is a must.

This is maintained by a new research carried out in Oregon stating consumers judge a wine from its label and from its packaging too.

‘The package helps people make a decision”

The study titled “Holistic Package Design and Consumer Brand Impressions” appeared on the Journal of  Marketing  and has been edited by Professors Keven Malkewitz, marketing assistant at the Oregon State University, and Ulrich Orth, marketing teacher at the Kiel, Germany based University. (more…)