A new industrial plan aims to make the firm operational immediately on both the production and after-sales assistance fronts.
Good news for the workers. Excellent news for the Fiorano Modenese area, hit hard by the repercussions of the financial crisis even before more tangible production and market difficulties appeared.
The core business remains unchanged: sorting and palletizing lines – in which Nuova Fima led internationally – and vision systems by Surface Inspection, the undisputed world leader in automatic tile inspection systems that was taken over by Nuova Fima back in 2005.
As of today it won’t just be a matter of production. Nuova Fima’s goal, in fact, is to make the spare parts service and, more generally, after-sales assistance, operational immediately. This is part of a policy to restore it, as quickly as possible, as the industry’s reference point for sorting lines and vision systems.
By taking over part of the Fiorano-based company and saving it from the prospect of closure, Sacmi has not just secured jobs for many of Nuova Fima’s workers: in doing so it has also reinforced and completed its product range, creating an end-of-line group that provides a diversified, integrated, efficient response to the all customer needs.
Nuova Fima sorting lines and Surface Inspection vision systems will be integrated with the Sacmi Automation range, with mosaic and trim manufacturing systems by Kemac and products made by Sima, a specialist in product handling and storage systems and also, for some time now, a key player in the production of automatic laser-guided.
CCM 80: high volumes, outstanding quality
12/09/09
Sacmi takes compression technology to the next level
Sacmi’s goal: to complete the CCM range while, at the same time, taking the compression ‘world’ to unprecedented levels by proposing a machine that can produce 2,000 pieces per minute with a cycle time of 2.4 seconds. This, then, is the CCM 80, which will flank the CCM 48 and 64 models, which have already been on the market for some time.
This machine offers all the advantages of compression technology (Continuous Compression Moulding), that is, maximum homogeneity of cap output guaranteed by the fact that the punches work independently of each other. Not so with injection technology, which, while providing high output rates, struggles to ensure uniform output quality.
There are several reasons for this: injection technology (usually featured by 128-cavity moulds) makes it extremely difficult to maintain uniform temperatures, to ensure uniform distribution of plastic etc. So outgoing pieces are not all the same and, because bottling lines are ever-faster, any downtimes caused by cap quality problems can inflict economic damages on the producer that are much higher than the unit cost of the individual cap. It follows that compression and therefore the dimensional consistency and qualitative excellence are both absolute musts.
The CCM 80 has already received highly encouraging market feedback. Previewed at Chinaplas, it was immediately purchased by an important Chinese customer, Tin Hsin, one of the major local bottle and pre-form producers: the machine will become fully operational at the start of 2010. When Sacmi displayed it again at Drinktec in Munich, it attracted the attention of Hana Water, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest bottling concerns: they too purchased the machine. That’s an excellent result, especially when one considers that the CCM 80 is, by definition, ideal for companies with high output volumes, as is usually the case on emerging markets (China alone accounts for 35% of Sacmi’s sales in this sector). Companies interested in the CCM 80 will also be pleased to note that the initial outlay is a relatively contained one: machines downstream from the line (pilfer band cutter etc.) are, usually, already designed to manage output rates of this type, so the new machine can also be installed on existing lines without any need to replace or adapt other parts of the plant.
Sacmi then, sees this machine as essential: it allows us to cover the high-volume production ‘segment’ with very short cycle times while offering more advantages in terms of energy resource optimisation than in the past. The CCM 80, in fact, features new extrusion control systems which adjust energy consumption according to speed, which, in turn, depends on cap type and geometry – with the result that the unit cost of the individual cap drops even further. It might fittingly be called a “variable consumption system”, that is, one that makes using the machine profitable in any production situation, thus allowing the CCM 80 to take its place among a new range of Sacmi machines specially studied to enhance quality while simultaneously cutting energy costs and reducing environmental impact.
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2010 Trade Shows
PACK EXPO 2010
October 31 - November 3 2010
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