Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola Societa' Cooperativa

Mats Qvarford

Fabrizio Pucci

Fiorenzo Parrinello

Paolo Benedetti

Bo Hakan Larsson

Alessandro Falzoni

Magnus Råbe

Alessandro Balboni

Niels Damkjaer

Mats Åkesson

Gert Holmström

Daniel Cederström

Anna Harder

Roy Eidebakken

Magnus Wijk

Petra Winberg

Rune Berg

Falzoni Alessandro

An apparatus for digital printing of carton-based packaging material for packages holding liquid food products is provided. The packaging material has a first side adapted to form outer surfaces of the packages and a second side adapted to form inner surfaces of the packages. The apparatus includes an inlet configured to receive a web of the packaging material and an outlet configured to transfer the web of packaging material out of the apparatus, a web feeding assembly, arranged to feed the web in a web feeding direction from the inlet through the apparatus to the outlet, including at least one drive unit and at least one web direction device, a number of print bars provided with print heads arranged to provide food graded ink on the first side of the web, wherein the at least one drive unit and at least one web direction device provide a first web turning arrangement for turning the web after being received via the inlet such that the first side of the web is facing towards the print heads, and a second web turning arrangement for turning the web after the food graded ink has been provided by the print heads, wherein the first web turning arrangement provides a first slack upstream the number of print bars and the second web turning arrangement provides a second slack downstream the number of print bars.

Apparatus for digital printing of carton-based material and a method thereof

A package for pourable food products and method for moulding a polymeric opening portion to a packaging sheet material is provided. The package can include an opening portion and a weakening feature. In some embodiments, the opening portion can be made of a polymer composition. In some embodiments, the weakening feature has a thickness below 200 micrometers and is thinner than parts of the opening portion directly adjacent to said weakening feature. The polymer composition can include sodium sulphite particles. In some embodiments, the sodium sulphite particles have the following size characteristics: (i) 0% having a size above 75 micrometers, and (ii) an average size below 25 micrometers.

Package for pourable food products and method for moulding a polymeric opening portion

A container closure comprising a pouring spout having a neck defining a pour opening and a cover portion closing one end of the neck; a cap fittable to and removable from the spout and having a lateral wall cooperating with the neck and an end wall facing the cover portion; a weakening line on the end of the neck; first opening promoter on the spout; and second opening promoter on the lateral wall of the cap to engage the first opening promoter upon removing the cap from the spout to separate the cover portion from the neck along the weakening line; after separation, the cover portion is held by the second opening promoter in a containing zone of the cap; the closure further comprises flow hampering mechanism for limiting, after separation of the cover portion from the neck, the product flow towards and from the containing zone.

Closure for a container of a pourable product

An apparatus includes a first mold part suitable for receiving an object, a die arrangement arranged for surrounding a zone of the object and a second mold part cooperating with the die arrangement and with the first mold part in order to compression-mold plastics on the object in the zone.

Compression moulding apparatuses and methods

There is described a closure for a sealed container of a pourable food product, comprising a pouring spout defining a pour opening externally closed by a cover portion, a cap fitted to the pouring spout in a removable way, an opening member interposed between the cap and the cover portion of the pouring spout and joined to the cover portion, and a driving mechanism carried by the cap to engage and pull the opening member along a direction transversal thereto upon removal of the cap from the pouring spout so as to detach the cover portion from the neck portion and free the pour opening when the closure is first unsealed by the user.

Closure for a sealed container of a pourable food product, and method of producing thereof

A closure for a sealed container of a pourable food product includes a pouring spout which has at least a layer of gas- and/or light-barrier material and a pour opening closed by a cover portion on the side opposite to the side facing, in use, the container, and a cap fittable to, and removable from, the pouring spout; the cover portion has a through cut at its periphery and is joined to a top wall of the cap superimposed on the cover portion, so that the cover portion defines a layer of gas- and/or light-barrier material of the cap and can be removed together with the cap from the pouring spout during first unsealing of the closure; a sealant is provided on a given area of the top wall of the cap for cooperating with a region of the pouring spout.

A method for sealing a first packaging material laminate, comprised of at least one layer of magnetizable particles and a sealable layer, to a second packaging laminate involves facing the sealable layer towards the second laminate, providing an alternating magnetic field to the laminates in a sealing zone, thereby generating magnetic hysteresis losses in the laminate having the magnetizable particles, which losses create heat substantially melting the sealable layer in the sealing zone, and applying a sealing pressure to the first and second laminate to cause the first and second laminate to be pressed together in the sealing zone, thereby sealing the laminates to each other.

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Mats Qvarford