The newest entries in the Sica product range include a palletiser, a winder and a belling machine, which the company introduced at the Plast 2015 trade fair.

The RoboJack 250 robotic palletiser makes it possible to automatically process PVC, PE and PP pipes with lengths ranging from 1 to 6 m and diameters ranging from 32 to 250 mm, with or without a socket joint. The cell can palletise two pipes of different lengths at the same time, on wood-framed carriages; it also features a storage magazine as well as an anthropomorphic robot which not only handles pipes, but also adjusts the position of the socket joints on the several pallet layers, in order to save space.

The Flash 450 automatic winder makes it possible to wrap stretch-hood film around corrugated PVC, PE and PP pipes, with diameters ranging from 8 to 25 mm, obtaining space-saving bobbins. The winder is equipped with three rotating reels, adjusted by a central control system, a film feeding dispenser with electronic tension control, multi-purpose film cutting systems, and a variable geometry bobbin discharge device. The machine also features a wireless signal transmission system, controlling the main functions of the reels.

The Unibell1 200JRE automatic online belling machine, provided with IR-SW oven, has been designed to bell PVC-U compact or multi-layer smooth-wall pipes, with lengths ranging from 0.5 to 6 metres, excluding the bell, and diameters of between 32 and 200 mm. This machine is available with electro-mechanical, electric or pneumatic handling, and is equipped with a PLC system which can be operated from the control panel. During the forming phase, all the diameters are processed in a single chamber by means of external pressure, while the bell is cooled by a jet of compressed air, previously cooled through the refrigeration cycle inside the belling machine itself. It can produce smooth bells, with a seat for the sealing, with mechanical mandrel, or with an integrated sealing (Rieber system), and is provided with a sealing magazine as well as with a system which inserts the O-ring on the mandrel.