Hightec-objects with cultfactor. Not only for the younger target group, the perfectly designed tinplate packagings from Kleemann are in full swing.

This year the labelling machine manufacturer GERNEP introduced two new aggregates for its gluing systems onto the market: The GERNEP self-adhesive label applicator and the 3rd generation cold glue labelling unit.

From pharmaceutical product to coating tech-nology for PET bottles

Sustainability | With its Plasmax coating technology and the FreshSafe PET® packaging system which has evolved from it, KHS offers the food and beverage industries a sustainable, environmentally-friendly system with a particularly good product protection. Today’s coating system for PET bottles dates back to the 1990s when it was used in the pharmaceutical industry. How has this extraordinary story of success come about?

Sidel | Producing a great diversity of bottles from 0,5 L to 1,5 L on a single packaging line for PET, Pearlwater Mineralquellen AG, Termen, Switzerland, was determined to enhance the efficiency of its production line as well as bottle quality by upgrading its PalKombi Gripping palletiser’s performance, installed by Sidel in 2011. Trusting in its OEM, Pearlwater were able to increase the palletiser’s reliability and flexibility for the handling of various pack sizes and improved overall line efficiency by 5% with better pack and pallet stability. 

Krones | On 25th August, the German Packaging Institute announced Krones AG and its subsidiary, Dekron, as winners of the German Packaging Award 2020 in the category “sustainability”. The prize-winning entry involves a beverage bottle, the design and lifecycle of which were comprehensively created in accordance with sustainability criteria.

Ardagh | The global supplier of metal and glass packaging has committed to set science-based targets through the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a project that aims to encourage corporate climate action for a low-carbon economy.

New Development | The KHS Group, Dortmund, Germany, has added a further environmentally-friendly system to its portfolio. With its tried-and-tested Innopack Kisters tray packers the systems supplier now enables cans to be wrapped in paper.

4.0 technology | Sacmi Imola S.C., Imola, Italy, is leading the re-opening of international markets by providing customers with close support worldwide. Remote factory acceptance tests and the ability to provide a true remote start-up service (SAT – site acceptance test), ensuring customers maximise the opportunities provided by 4.0 technology.

Sidel | The M version of Sidel’s CoboAccess™_Pal answers growing cobotic palletising needs.

EOL | Pursuing its Buy & Build strategy, EOL Packaging Experts GmbH, Kirchlengern, Germany has made a second add‐on acquisition by investing in BMS Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Pfatter, Germany.