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.