Technology

A short time ago Bandera supplied two flat die extrusion lines to a Vietnamese customer: a thermoforming plant for PET and an extrusion machinery for PP PS, with low thickness and limited shrinkage. They were both designed for the production of food packaging. These first two lines represented a milestone for Bandera, laying the...

The global leader in applied additive technology solutions, Stratasys, announced the launch of its “Direct Factory” portal in Italy. The portal enables designers, engineers and manufacturers to easily and rapidly meet their design and production requirements by ordering 3D printed parts online...

Since March 1, 2019 Sacmi has been a member of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Industrial Liaison Program. Founded in 1861, MIT is the world's leading university in the applied industrial research field. Signed by Paolo Mongardi, President of Sacmi, and Karl F. Koster, executive director of MIT corporate relations, this agreement...

BLAUWER is an Italian company belonging to PEGASO INDUSTRIES founded to provide to the national and international markets innovative thermal machineries for the industrial fields. Blauwer designs, manufactures and installs high efficiency thermal machineries able to handle fluids such as water and air for...

On March 12, Bausano organised an open day at its own headquarters in Rivarolo Canavese (Turin), in order to present its latest innovations in the extrusion field.

For Wittmann Battenfeld, this year’s Mecspe focuses on digitization and sophisticated process technology, which will be visualized on two injection moulding machines from the servo hydraulic SmartPower series. The Wittmann 4.0 integration will be demonstrated on a SmartPower 120/525, in whose...

“The Global Plastic Market Platform”: a phrase that perfectly sums up the international Koplas fair (Seoul, March 12-16), Sacmi is making its debut in 2019. Buoyed by growing penetration on this strategic market - over ten Sacmi CCM compression presses were recently installed in South Korea by leading beverage...

At the coming edition of Mecspe (March 28-30, Parma, Italy), Stratasys will showcase its latest 3D printing solutions for design and production to the Italian manufacturing industry. Visitors will see the company’s latest PolyJet and FDM additive manufacturing solutions live on the stand, including the Italian premiere of new advanced elastomer…

The new Motus controller from Negri Bossi was introduced at B&R’s Innovations Day 2019, the yearly event dedicated to designers who want to learn more about the latest innovations in the field of automation, which took place on February 21 at the Fiere di Parma fairgrounds. Many lectures and presentations of new products took place during the…

The forthcoming Mecspe 2019 fair (Parma, Italy, March 28-30) will see Star Automation Europe, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary, presenting three Cartesian robots - one on its own stand, one on the BMB stand, and the third on the RP Injection/Toyo Machinery stand - as well as a variety of ancillary equipment for injection moulding…

The partnership between Colines and Pantex International proceeds with the delivery, scheduled in spring, of the third cast extrusion line for production of hygienic film. "We chose to reconfirm our confidence in Colines - explained Gianluigi Fornoni, CEO of Pantex International - well conscious that we could count on the best technology and...

The Arburg Technology Days will be held in Lossburg (Germany) from March 13 to 16, 2019. The main focus will be on the "Road to Digitalisation". In this respect, the Efficiency Arena offers an overview of the digital products and services. The Technology Days event was first celebrated in Lossburg in 1999 and is now regarded...

The development of innovative IoT knowledge and skills and the creation of enabling technologies strategic to Sacmi's growth, yet also the establishment of a true 4.0 innovation hub at the service of the region-wide mechanics, mechatronics and food industries. This, in short, is the mission of Sacmi Innovation Lab 4.0, the facility selected...

Extreme customisation. This is the engineering strategy implemented by Moss with the aim of delivering technical solutions meeting the different special needs of companies operating in the field of decoration. One of the highest expressions of this strategy in the range of products offered by the Emilian manufacturer, today, is represented by the…

Why not rent an injection moulding machine, rather than buy one? CMJ Kunststofftechnik is setting store by the KraussMaffei Rent-it business model. Decisive arguments for renting instead of buying the new all-electric PX 80-380 injection moulding machine were above all the prospect of a machine that is always state-of-the-art, more flexibility in…

A new Macchi 5-layer POD line has been delivered in Georgia to a major manufacturer of beverage packaging products. For the company based in Venegono Inferiore (near Varese, Italy) this is the first line of its kind ever delivered in the country. The plant, a 1,800-mm POD 5-layer line, will allow the production of up to...

One year after the publication of the first draft (so-called Release Candidate) for the OPC UA based interface for temperature control devices, the finished specification has now been released by Euromap. Before that, a few adjustments and above all a test of the interface by several manufacturers in different combinations had been made...

Sacmi will be in New Delhi from February 28 to March 4, 2019 to take part in India Plast, the country's most important plastics fair. Taking centre-stage will be the compression technology with which Sacmi has profoundly innovated the way plastic caps are made thanks to its outstanding performance, quality and control characteristics...

Negri Bossi will be present at Mecspe, first Italian event of the year 2019 that will take place in Parma from March 28 to 30. The attendance at this event is testament that the society continues to take an interest in the domestic market. The company will be exhibiting the new machine of platform Nova, the Nova eT 100 tons...

Axiom Product Development has recently invested in the purchase of two new Negri Bossi plastic injection moulding machines which will significantly broaden the specialist engineering services that the company can offer both existing and new customers. The two Negri Bossi machines, one 180 tonnes and the other 90 tonnes, will be used to...