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Materials handling

Packaging: On demand or for online

Automated on-demand packaging processes: At Fachpack, Packsize and the Becker Group will be exhibiting a process for the individual packaging of products of very different sizes.

Robot system

AMI shows automated shipping line

At its stand at FachPack in Nuremberg, AMI Förder- und Lagertechnik GmbH will be demonstrating how automation can be used to design efficient and performance-enhancing shipping processes.

Maxi bag system with integrated label printer

Automated Packaging Systems will be presenting the latest generation of its maxi pouch packaging systems and thermal transfer printers for the first time at Fachpack.

Data glasses

Klosterfrau subsidiary picks with Picavi

Another Klosterfrau Healthcare Group site has been equipped with Picavi's pick-by-vision solution. The subsidiary Artesan Pharma in Lüchow, Lower Saxony, ordered ten of the smart glasses.

Fachpack 2019

Three questions for...Eckhard Bluhm

40 years of Fachpack and coding and marking technology. Eckhard Bluhm, founder and Managing Director of Bluhm Systeme, a company that has been an exhibitor at Fachpack since the very first event, explains how the trade fair and the industry have developed since then and the role played by digitalization.

Jungheinrich

Dr. Lars Brzoska new Chairman of the Executive Board

As announced, Dr. Lars Brzoska has taken over as Chairman of the Board of Management of Jungheinrich. Hans-Georg Frey was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Linear guides

High-quality linear guides

Hepco Motion, manufacturer of high-quality linear and ring guidance systems, will be exhibiting products including the GV3 linear guidance system and the recently added new extension of the Side Adjustment Carriage (SAA).

Opinion

Three questions for... Dietmar Weik

Motek 2019: Tox Pressotechnik is known for its clinching technology. The company now also offers systems for semi-tubular self-pierce rivets. Managing Director Dietmar Weik explains what this is all about and what else Tox will be presenting at Motek.

Pallet magazine

Test pallet magazine

MWB is presenting a new pallet magazine in Nuremberg. It can remove Euro or industrial pallets directly from the trolley and load them onto trolleys. This allows users of tugger trains to streamline the handling of empty pallets, eliminating the need for high-lift trucks or forklifts.

Robots

Enhanced performance

Stäubli presents an extended complete program of highly dynamic four- and six-axis machines, including the newly developed TS2-Scara series. All kinematics are convincing for sorting, filling and packaging under any environmental conditions - from rough to sterile.

Ident technology

Sensors, RFID and more

Balluff is coming to Nuremberg with its portfolio for the packaging industry. This includes, for example, sensors made of stainless steel with Ecolab approval to make packaging processes safe, stable and hygienic.

System boxes

Cool system boxes

The Toolbox Rack from Auer Packaging is now available in six predefined sets, fully equipped with high-quality tools from the premium brand Garant. Thanks to various components for different storage scenarios, the box, which won the Design Award 2018, can be reconfigured again and again.

Container for e-commerce

So that the food stays fresh

Bito will be showcasing smart container solutions for sustainable packaging, storage and transportation at Fachpack. The storage technology specialist has recently expanded its MB series to include a container specifically for the food/e-commerce sector, which will be presented for the first time.

Packaging technology

Container made to measure

Customized packaging for individual requirements: At Fachpack, Auer Packaging will be focusing in particular on the new special-sized containers.

Product handling

Smart product handling

At Fachpack, Piab will be demonstrating how intelligent grippers, lifters and conveyors document workflows and optimize processes. The components are equipped with Piab's Pi-Smart technology, which measures the key parameters of the processes during handling, optimizes them as a self-learning system and issues warnings in the event of deviations from specifications.

Vertical conveyor

Every square meter is used

Fast transportation between different levels, reliable allocation to the destination, all at the touch of a button without manual intervention, as efficient and energy-saving as possible: the demands on the intralogistics sector are growing rapidly in the age of Industry 4.0.

Material flow

Inloader improves apple crate transportation

To make the material flow in its apple warehouse in Val Venosta more efficient, the Mivor fruit cooperative relies on an inloader from Hubtex. By switching from tractors to the KTR 120 box transporter, Mivor is relieving its employees and increasing capacity.

Lifts

Moves chocolate and hospital mattresses

Grasping, lifting, holding and turning are movement sequences in the manual handling of boxes, cartons, parcels, chocolate molds and hospital mattresses that are ergonomically relieved by Lift&Drive lifting devices from 3i.

Safe handling of 90,000 containers

Dematic is automating the new distribution center of hard metal producer Ceratizit in Kempten with a multishuttle system. A seven-aisle Dematic Multishuttle system with around 90,000 container storage locations is being installed for this purpose.