Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Gianluca Pagliani

Stefano Costa

Claudio Ferrari

Marco Melandri

Paolo Bergami

Lorenzo Martini

Roberto Panciroli

A packaging machine comprises a conveying device for advancing a web along a web advancement path at least to a tube forming station where the web is formed into a tube and for advancing the tube along a tube advancement path, a tube forming and sealing device configured to form and to longitudinally seal the tube, a tensioning device upstream of the tube forming station and configured to control the tension of the tube and a control unit configured to control packaging machine operation. The tensioning device comprises a main drive roller rotatable around a main rotation axis and a main drive motor configured to actuate rotation of the main drive roller around the main rotation axis. The control unit is configured to control the main drive motor such that angular speed and/or angular acceleration of the main drive roller is cyclically varied to control the tension of the tube.

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Modena, Italy

Gianluca Pagliani