Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Paolo Scarabelli

Lars Bergholtz

Antonio Melandri

Renzo Bellei

Stefano Flore

Lorenzo Tacconi

Claudio Donati

Matteo Gazzadi Poggioli

Alberto Cavani

Giorgio Galavotti

Stefano Rossi

Stefano Vicini

Anna Harder

Marco Melandri

Rickard Norenstam

Gustavo Barros

Filippo Serafini

Paolo De Corte

Agostino Lapenna

Gian Paolo Meloni

Lars Palm

Gaetano Cutrona

Mimi Axelsson

Antonio Marsella

Keyvan Shourvarzi

Massimo Viola

Mattia Verasani

Frank-Mario Schellenberg

Niclas Olsson

Niclas K Olsson

Maurizio Moser

Francesco Panini

Giorgio Piccinini

A method for authenticating a food package holding a food product can include receiving sample image data depicting the food package, identifying a sample print feature sub-set of the food package, identifying a sample geometric feature sub-set of the food package, generating a sample feature set based on the sample print feature sub-set and the sample geometric feature sub-set, receiving a reference feature set, wherein the reference feature set is generated based on a reference print feature sub-set and a reference geometric feature sub-set identified in reference image data, wherein the reference image data is captured in a food packaging system arranged to produce food packages, comparing the sample feature set and the reference feature set, and in case of match, providing an indication that the food package is authentic.

Method for authenticating a food package using printing data and an apparatus thereof

A laser ablation marking system for providing an image to a web of packaging material is provided. The marking system includes at least one marking device having at least one laser having a plurality of individually controlled light outputs arranged in the cross-wise direction of the web of packaging material, each light output having a power output of at least 60 W and being configured to emit light to provide laser ablation, and a controller being connected to the marking device and configured to control the light outputs based on the speed of the web of packaging material such that the emitted light will always hit the web of packaging material at the same angle.

Laser ablation marking system for and a method of providing an image to a web of packaging material

A method for producing packages holding liquid food products from a web of packaging material, wherein the web comprises a number of blanks placed after one another, wherein each blank corresponds to one package, the method comprising receiving a reel holding the web of packaging material, capturing reel data from a tag attached to the reel, transferring the reel data to a printing information database, receiving printing information data (PID) related to the reel data from the printing information database, printing decors on each of the blanks of the web of packaging material based on information provided via the PID, transferring the reel data to a packaging machine information database receiving packaging machine information data (PMID) related to the reel data from the packaging machine information database, and forming the packages from the décor provided web in a packaging machine based on information provided via the PMID.

Method for producing packages and a system thereof

Unique codes for marking packages for liquid food are generated with a header portion () containing non-encrypted code-definition data ([E], [G]) that represents the code structure and/or the code generation methodology, and a payload portion () containing encrypted payload data ([EP]). The encryption ensures that the code is sufficiently scrambled to make guessing and fraudulent code generation difficult. The payload data, before encryption, may be defined to be unique in each code, thereby also rendering the code unique. The payload data, before encryption, may also be structured so as to enable efficient search for the code in a database. When read from a package, the code may be processed by extracting the code-definition data ([E], [G]), identifying the payload portion (), extracting the encrypted payload data ([EP]), re-creating the payload data by decryption, and searching the database for the code based on the payload data or one or more subsets thereof.

Providing unique codes on packages for liquid food

A system for controlling a manufacturing process for packaging units is disclosed, the packaging units are manufactured from a packaging material comprising machine readable identifiers. A control unit associates the identifiers with corresponding data images of the packaging units, wherein for a first process application to manipulate packaging material based on a first set of process parameters, the control unit is configured to store at least part of the first set of process parameters to the associated data image, wherein for a subsequent second process application to manipulate said packaging material, read at least part of the first set of process parameters stored in said associated data image to control the second process application based on at least part of the first set of process parameters.

System and method for controlling a manufacturing process for packaging units

A method for printing a web of packaging material for packages holding liquid food products is provided. The method comprises receiving a web of packaging material, identifying a first register mark using a first sensor, determining a first register mark position based on the first register mark, determining a second register mark position area based on the first register mark position, identifying a second register mark within the second register mark position area using a second sensor and determining a second register mark position for the second register mark, determining a second area position of the second area based on the second register mark position, adjusting the web in relation to printer bars in accordance with the second area position, determining a second area position of the second area based on the second register mark position, and printing the second area by using the printer bars.

Method for printing a web of packaging material and an apparatus thereof

A method is disclosed for generating a virtual overlay for a packaging machine having a plurality of movable objects manipulating packaging containers, comprising associating the movable objects with respective object identifier data communicated in the packaging machine, determining a relative position of a target object amongst the movable objects in a physical coordinate system of the packaging machine based on the object identifier data, registering imaging data comprising at least part of the movable objects or a defined physical reference, mapping the relative position of the target object to a virtual coordinate system in an at least partly virtual environment viewed by a user, comprising correlating the relative position of the target object to the imaging data, whereby the target object is assigned to a virtual target coordinate in the virtual coordinate system, and displaying the virtual overlay in the virtual coordinate system in relation to the virtual target coordinate.

Method of generating a virtual overlay for a packaging machine

A method for quality control of a packaging system is provided. The method comprises receiving a first record of packaging quality parameter data related to a first packaging quality parameter for a package being assessed, determining a second packaging quality parameter based on said first record, requesting a second record of packaging quality parameter data related to said second packaging quality parameter, and receiving said second record.

Methods and apparatuses for packaging quality assurance

A method for quality control of a packaging system is provided. The method comprises receiving a record of packaging identification data, wherein the record of packaging identification data being related to a package. Next, identifying and receiving a record of machine data using said record of packaging identification data, wherein said record of machine data being related to a machine set up used when producing said package. Thereafter, identifying a packaging quality parameter to be checked based on said record of machine data, and requesting a record of packaging quality data related to said packaging quality parameter.

Methods and apparatuses for guided quality control of a packaging system

A sheet material for producing packages of food products and having a succession of optically detectable register mark; each mark, has a first and a second segment parallel to each other and perpendicular to a feed direction of the material, and a sloping segment interposed between the parallel segments, so as to define a broken, to substantially Z-shaped line, which may be used to determine the position of the material both in the feed direction and in a perpendicular direction.

Sheet material for producing packages of food products, and packages made of such material

There is described a packaging machine () for producing sealed packages () of a pourable food product from a strip () of heat-seal sheet packaging material. The packaging material () has a number of photocells (), which are programmable externally as regards their setting parameters, are positioned facing the strip () of packaging material to detect optically detectable elements on the strip, and have setting means (). The packaging machine () also has a control unit () connected to the photocells () and having enabling means () for enabling the setting means of a specific photocell (), data downloading means () for downloading off the specific photocell () the setting parameters of the photocell, and data uploading means () for uploading onto the other photocells () setting parameters calculated as a function of the setting parameters downloaded off the specific photocell ().

Packaging machine for continuously producing sealed packages

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Reggio Emilia, Italy

Paolo Scarabelli