NewsInterpack 2023: the Group’s latest
green solutions on show
Amongst the biggest innovations the Marchesini Group will be showing at the Düsseldorf
exhibition from 4 to 10 May will be a large area dedicated to sustainability and solutions for
packaging pharmaceutical or beauty products with environment-friendly materials.
So visitors to the company’s stand of more than 1500 square metres (Hall 15 – Stand A42 1-6) will
enjoy a close-up view of a number of machines and lines able to package products with different
types of materials, including paper, recyclable and recycled mono-material plastics and aluminium.
Each of these solutions is the outcome of research and development work directed at meeting themarket’s demands: “More and more customers are calling us in for projects that involve thesustainability of packaging materials,” Group CEO Pietro Cassani tells us. “Good results in this area
require a high degree of cooperation between ourselves as automatic machinery constructors andthe suppliers of the packaging materials; the issue must be tackled with a holistic approach thatconsiders all the requirements involved and increasingly embraces the packaging’s entire lifecycle.”

Machines and lines on show in the sustainability area
The stand will exhibit a machine designed to carton vials in paper trays. This solution is presented
together with a new-design paper tray, researched and developed entirely by the Group itself, which
generates savings of about fifty percent in paper and about fifty percent in glue compared to themodels currently on the market.
What’s more, the new paper tray is less thick, providing space savings of thirty percent when
products are combined inside the case, with obvious benefits during shipment in terms of load
capacities and relative CO2 emissions. The Group, which has been developing paper tray solutions asa valid, safe alternative to thermoformed plastic for more than ten years, has created this new
prototype with the aim of guaranteeing even more responsible use of packaging material, whilefurther reducing production costs and avoiding waste.
Also on show in the sustainability area will be a complete line for blister products, comprising firstand foremost an integrated, robotised solution which inserts tablets in a packaging consisting ofseventy-five percent PVC-free aluminium, an entirely recyclable, infinitely reusable material, andthen in a cardboard carton. The line is completed by a monobloc comprising a case packer and apalletiser equipped with an innovative robot.
Apart from the all-aluminium primary packaging, this line’s truly innovative feature is the installationon the machine of a Track & Trace technology by SEA Vision: from blister serialisation through topallet aggregation, a single solution to protect the brand and safeguard the product against
counterfeiting.

Visitors to the stand will also be able to view a thermoforming machine for forming mono-material
trays in R-PET, PET recycled material, designed to take vials, and a line comprising a Schmucker 12lane stick packaging machine, a stick inspection system and a cartoner. This line is designed toprocess PP-based packaging materials (with and without PE) such as 100% recyclable mono-material
plastics like OPP or BOPP with a metallised intermediate layer.
Due to its suitability for food contact, this material is a worthy polyolefin-based substitute for theclassic PET/ALU material for production of high-barrier flexible packaging.
Last but not least, the area dedicated to green solutions contains a new, versatile machine model
which uses only cardboard as packaging material: it can serve as a case packer for small sizes,eliminating the need for plastic bundles, or as a cartoner for large sizes.
The sustainability of packaging materials is only one of the many frontiers in which Marchesini Groupis investing in order to comply with the paradigms of the circular economy: it is also engaged in otheractivities such as the business of Rinova, the company created to give new life to pre-owned original
Marchesini lines and machines. In fact, through a remanufacturing process the Group is able to offer
customers a solution more advantageous in both economic and environmental terms, with the same
quality and reliability specifications.