I.m.a. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.a.

Ima Life, S.r.l.

Gabriele Gabusi

Claudio Trebbi

Claudio Bechini

Mattia Chianura

Sergio Manera

Gabriele Rustici Venturini

Michele Cussini

Vannino Sartore

Mauro Maccagnani

An apparatus for automatically stretching an opening flap of packaging containing at least one object includes suction gripping members configured to cooperate selectively and at least temporarily, but in a stable way, with the packaging to make the opening flap able to be identified and gripped for a subsequent processing thereof.

Method and apparatus for automatically stretching an opening flap of closed packagings

An apparatus and method provide for automated management of bacterial load detector devices to be temporarily positioned inside a chamber, delimited by walls, at least one of the walls includes at least one access aperture on which a primary closing unit is installed, configured to allow access to an inside of the chamber while keeping an atmosphere of the chamber isolated and separated from an external environment. The apparatus comprises a transport container, containing an extractable housing slider on which one or more bacterial load detector devices are positioned, an extraction device configured to extract the housing slider from the transport container and make the housing slider available inside the chamber, and a support device disposed inside the chamber configured to stably position and support the housing slider.

Apparatus and method for the automated management of bacterial load detector devices

Apparatus for stretching an opening flap of a closed packaging containing at least one object includes an insufflation device configured to cooperate with a breathable portion of the packaging to insufflate gas under pressure inside it in order to make the opening flap identifiable and available for a subsequent treatment thereof.

Apparatus and method for automatically stretching an opening flap of closed packagings

Method to move containers (C) in a processing line () that comprises a station () for storing and picking up said containers (C) and a station () at least for filling said containers (C), said method providing, in said storage and pick-up station (), to supply a container-holding tray () containing a plurality of said containers (C) disposed upended in said container-holding tray () with respect to their mouth (), and subsequently to upend said containers (C) with the aid of upending means () so as to invert the orientation of said containers (C) and make them available with the side of the mouth () facing upward so that they can be picked up by extraction means ().

Method to move containers in a line for processing said containers, and corresponding processing line

Method to manufacture a component suitable to be installed inside a protected chamber with a controlled atmosphere of a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products, configured to receive one or more pieces of equipment, or devices, or elements, each formed by one or more of the components, wherein the interior of the chamber, that is to say, the components that form the equipment, or the devices, or the elements, is/are intended to be subjected to suitable decontamination and sterilization treatments, for example CIP (Clean-In-Place) treatments and/or SIP (Sterilizing-In-Place) treatments; There are also described components that are manufactured with the manufacturing method as above, and a method to prepare a protected chamber, isolated from the external environment, of a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products.

Method to manufacture a component for a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products

An opening assembly for a package, particularly for containers including vials, bottles, syringes, and carpules which can be installed in a container handling and filling system. The package includes a tub covered by a covering film, the tub containing a nest bearing the containers in an orderly manner. The opening assembly includes at least one clamp located upstream of an opening placed on a separation wall between a first and second sterile environment. While the package passes through the opening, the clamp clamps a portion of an edge of the covering film, consequently removing the covering film from the tub.

Opening assembly for a package

A weighing device to weigh at least one container suitable to contain one or more substances, including weighing means and a body connected to the weighing means and in which a compartment is defined, configured to temporarily house the container and provided with an aperture defining a passage gap for the introduction of the container inside the compartment along an axis of introduction, in which the body also includes a plurality of holding levers to hold the container inside the compartment.

Weighing device with levers for securing a container of weighed substance

A fan assembly for cleanrooms includes a chamber defined by a floor, two opposing side walls and an upper wall, an inlet unit for introducing a laminar stream of gas into said chamber directed towards the floor, said chamber being arranged in such a way as to be internally invested by the gas introduced by the inlet unit, where said assembly further includes a conveying channel for the gas and for liquid substances present within the chamber positioned on the floor, said conveying channel is surmounted by a casing defined by an upper wall and by two opposing side walls and each side wall of the casing, being provided with through openings that place the chamber into communication with the conveying channel, said opposing side walls of the casing are arranged spaced apart from the respective opposing side walls of the chamber.

Fan assembly for cleanrooms

A machine for filling and packaging containers including but not limited to bottles, cartridges, and syringes includes a wall that delimits an operating chamber in which at least one handling arm is arranged and which is facing at least one station placed externally to the operating chamber for the treatment of one or more of the containers. An intermediate element includes at least one coupling member configured to be alternatively operatively associable to the station and to the handling arm, with the intermediate element further including a coupling assembly integral to the intermediate element itself and different than coupling member. The coupling assembly is configured to removably hold one or more of the containers to be treated.

Machine for filling and packaging bottles, cartridges, syringes

An extraction assembly for extracting content from a bag, said bag having an end mouth formed by two opposing flaps, comprising a separation wall which separates a first environment and a second environment at different contamination classes and which is provided with an opening communicating the first environment and the second environment, closing partitions at the opening movable between a closing position and an opening position, and a gripper to keep closed said flaps and wherein each closing partition has coupling elements to couple with a gripper, wherein said gripper and said coupling elements include a retention device, the spacing apart of partitions causing opening of the jaws and the opening of the end mouth and the communicating of the inside of the bag and of the content with said second environment through said opening.

Extraction assembly of a content from a bag for pharmaceutical and chemical sectors

A conveyor assembly for packages of containers for pharmaceutical use which include an outer bag. The assembly includes a handling line for gripping elements and a dispensing apparatus for a laminar flow of gas positioned above the top of the line and directed towards the line itself. Each gripping element includes at least one clamping jaw for at least one flap of said bag to hang it so that each of its outer surfaces is invested by the laminar flow of gas during its handling.

Conveyor assembly for packages of containers for pharmaceutical use

A method for weighing containers arranged inside a holding structure includes providing a holding structure suitable to house in a substantially stable position at least one container, said at least one container including a supporting portion shaped so as to keep the container suspended on the holding structure, bringing said at least one container to a weighing station including a weighing member suitable to weight said at least one container, weighing said at container by means of said weighing member; wherein the weighing step is carried out by moving the holding structure so as to put said at least one container housed inside the holding structure in contact with the weighing member kept in a stationary position, until the detachment of the supporting portion of said at least one container from the holding structure is obtained.

Device and method for moving containers to a weighing station for weighing

A transferring device is provided for transferring containers from a container advancing device, where they are aligned in at least one row along an advancing direction, to at least one operating unit arranged outside the line, adjacent to the container advancing device, along a transferring direction transverse to the advancing direction. The transferring device includes at least two transferring arms, movable to selectively translate along the transferring direction from the container advancing device toward the operating unit.

Device and method for transferring containers

A lyophilizing and/or sterilizing machine comprises a treatment chamber, a plurality of loading planes having at least one loading surface, disposed inside the treatment chamber, one overlapping the other and positionable in a desired and known manner by means of vertical tie-rods. The lyophilizing and/or sterilizing machine also comprises a movement apparatus to move containers, the content of which is to be treated in the treatment chamber. The movement apparatus comprises at least one loading/unloading device mobile on horizontal guides comprising at least one internal horizontal guide independent and autonomous from the loading planes and located in correspondence to a lateral portion of the loading planes and between the loading surface and the vertical tie-rods.

Lyophilizing machine comprising at least a guide member for loading devices

Apparatus for moving containers containing substances, comprising a plane, for the transport, movement and at least temporary storage of said containers, mobile along transit paths developing at least along an axis of movement to serve several machines or user devices.

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Castenaso, Italy

Gabriele Gabusi