NIR Case sorter and TF12 automatic forming machine on show at PMA Fresh Summit
Over 500,000 square metres of ideas for the fruit and vegetable market, with 17,000 visitors from over 70 countries: this, in a nutshell, is the PMA Fresh Summit, the international fair-cum-convention that will be held in the Texan city of Houston from 12th to 15th October.
Of the two thousand companies participating in the event – organized by the American Product Marketing Association – a good 800 will be doing so in the role of exhibitor. This is a not-to-be-missed event for the Sacmi Group, which will be flying to Houston with the Sacmi Imola Automation Division and Sacmi Packaging. Attending with their relative sales teams, both companies will be exhibiting technological gems of huge interest to the fruit and vegetable industry.
Sacmi Imola will be showing visitors – both Texan and international – two NIR Case inspection units. Already tested successfully on major international markets, the portable NIR Case allows the main internal parameters affecting fruit and vegetable quality to be measured in the field, at the supermarket or at storage facilities. Easy to use and transport, it does not damage products and allows their compliance with quality standards to be tested fast and accurately.
Sacmi Packaging, instead, will be showing visitors to the PMA Fresh Summit an automatic TF12 machine, ideal for the formation of corrugated cardboard trays complete with upper straps. The TF12 will be exhibited together with relative stacker, a PS43 model, for vertical stacking of ready trays and separation of individual lots. Featuring flexible size changeover and low noise levels, the TF12 ensures reliability and excellent output capacity (up to 40 pieces per minute).