Focusing on innovation to infuse trust into the market: this is the topic to be discussed in London on the next 21st of May.
A machine is requested to perform with the greatest efficiency and to ensure the highest yield and reliability.
Talking about automatic machines destined to the packaging industry, rapidity in performing format change-over operations becomes a principle of choice of paramount importance; rapidity that Ronchi has patented for their Filling and Capping systems.
Its name is ‘Quick release’ and permits to carry out format change-over operations in very reduced times.
Filling recipes are recalled directly from the operator’s panel and managed by a PLC. The mechanical adjustments of the various machine parts are done by the machine operator with no tool.
For major info: www.ronchi.it
Flexible packaging represents a reality under a strong growth. Just think about the United States, whereas this is second in the hit list of the most utilized packaging means, according to a recent survey disclosed by the Flexible Packaging Association.
The reasons of this success are to be searched in the peculiarity of this kind of packaging: its ease adaptation to a wide variety of filling processes, its low weight, convenient price and eye-catching printability.
Technological innovation involving the flexible packaging widens the possibilities and permits to create intelligent packages reacting to outside stimulations; so, for instance, we can find polypropylene and polyethylene films changing colours when deformed or suffering for sudden temperature variations, so ensuring the integrity of the products reaching the consumers. This technique consists in incorporating fluorescent molecules in the film that, in case of deformation or excessive heating, break out thus producing the easily recognizable colour variation.
Sustainability and eco-compatibility of the packaging through the different steps of the value chain: from the raw-material producer to the final consumer.
This is the main subject ‘Sustainability’ will argue on, within the frame of Anuga Foodtec, the international trade fair for food and drink technology, which will take place from 10th to 13th March 2009 in Cologne, Germany.
The event sounds to be quite interesting for the visitor, who will so be able to get acquainted on the effects produced by the different packaging solutions, on how the food habits may affect the CO2, emissions, on new solutions being studied by the companies operating within this industry.
Always within the frame of Anuga FoodTec, under the guidance of Nova Institute
for Ecology and Innovation, a conference of sustainable packaging will also be held on the 12th March. Experts of the political, industrial and research world will argue on the subject of sustainability, focusing on political conditions, market development, influencing factors, new options and ecological valuations.
For more info. www.anugafoodtec.com
