Smart Molding International 2-2021

IML & IMD 26 smart_molding international 2/2021 ing food at home again. For example, the consumption of margarine has grown significantly and so has the need for packaging. "However, the segment of large containers for restaurants has been shrinking. On the other hand, the order volume for labelling buckets for liquid and free-flowing products (e.g. for DIY stores) has remained stable. We recently received an enquiry of this kind from a US company that was previously unknown to us. We sent him an offer and a video of howwe would handle it. And the next day we had his order on the table". The situation-related boom in enquiries from the medical primary packaging sector is also remarkable. "Here, we want to mobilize increased efforts in order to sustainably cover the demand for automation from the Euro - pean regions (primarily Italy, Germany and Russia) and oversea (USA)," states G. Svampa. According to him, Campe - tella's production capacity under cur - rent conditions is 25 to 30 standardised top-entry robots plus special systems based on the design-to-order principle. The turnover is also based on this prin - ciple - 30% Italy, 30%other Europe, 30% North America, 10% other markets. "We expect that the completely new Double Concept series has a good fu - ture because of its outstanding per - formance," forecasts Giacomo. Core components (drives etc.) of the proven Concept system are being employed here. The intensive use of carbon fi - bre components in the moving parts of the robots provides more lightness and rigidity. The system has been specially developed for the removal, stacking, packaging and logistics of products (72 x 2 = 144 cavities) in very high batch sizes. Also noteworthy is an extremely fast robot whose cycle time amounts to 3.9 seconds despite its size. The next steps lead back to reality, the centre of the Open House. The new developments are constant - ly being tested in the field of vehicle competition. Carlo Campetella (the former head of the company) has been active in motor sports for many years and has used materials and new designs conceived for lightweight con - struction, perfor - mance, precision, durability and speed. What could have been more obvious than to successively incorporate these advantages into ro - bot designs from the 1990s onwards (start of the Campetella Robotic Cen - ter)? Visitors to the in-house exhibition will find ground-breaking results in the Cartesian, side-entry robots, Scara so - lutions, super-fast sprue and part pick - ers, as well as control systems and IoT interface concepts (relating to practi - cally every make of plastics processing machine) on display. Two core exhibits Two core exhibits with the compre - hensive potential of the latest auto - The 4th and 5th generations of the Campetella family dynasty IML – yoghurt cups