Let’s start the countdown to one of the most important events in the field of packaging technologies, processing and logistics: IPACK-IMA 2012.

An all-Italian event, with the character and charm typical of Made in Italy, a guarantee of quality and style. Ronchi could only answer “present”, confirming itself as on of the reference points of Italian packaging industry.

Missing just over a month, but the preparations for the big event are already begun. The great kermesse, from February 28 to March 3, will animate the pavilions of the Milan fair. This is an unmissable event for all industry experts, which will have, among the exhibitors of excellence, even Ronchi.

IPACK-IMA is a fair system continuously developing and growing, both in terms of visitors both from the point of view of the consensus. Not to belie his “fame” as an event projected into the future, IPACK-IMA, this year, hosts the Innovation Corner, an area reserved for companies that want to present their technological innovations.

The packaging industry made in Italy won a good share of the international market, ensuring excellent standards of quality and efficiency, thanks also to a “square” increasingly attractive, Russia. In fact, the packaging market in Russia is growing steadily.

In particular, the demand of the food packaging industry in Russia increases and, in parallel, also the demand of quality. The answer is “strong and clear”: to meet the needs of customers and consumers, providing solutions that are always up to expectations, increased investment in the renewal of machinery and packaging, the focus is on research, innovation and on technology.

Growing demand expands the business opportunities for international suppliers to offer innovative technologies and complete packaging lines. The best international showcase, in this sense, seems to be UPAKOVA / UPAK ITALY: the first floor platform to establish and maintain business contacts with the Russian packaging market. This is the international trade fair for machinery, production and packaging materials, held in Moscow, 24 to 27 January 2012.

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.

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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.