Zacmi designs, fabricates, and installs custom filling and closing lines with seaming and processing systems.
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Filling and seaming, from liquids to highly viscous products
Its Piston Filler is used to fill highly viscous products and sauces with or without large inclusions. Although a common machine type, ZACMI has developed a patented Vertical Valve Piston Filler, which offers exceptionally high filling accuracy, making it suitable for a huge range of products.
Its seaming system – controlled by a desmodromic cam – is available in 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 multi-head configurations, delivering a maximum output of 1,600 cans per minute.
The company’s Double Seam Monitoring (DSM) solution checks the cans’ seaming performance in real time using special sensors. Its output can also be used for machine-settings regulation, ultimately helping to extend the service life of chucks and rolls.
International support, from installation to training
Zacmi offers comprehensive global support too, comprising either technician access or remote interactions backed by its Parma-based support team, which can travel to where local on-site support is unavailable or additional support is required. The support team can help with installation, training spares and upgrades, too.
Thanks to advanced automation hardware and on-machine digitalisation, Zacmi offers its Remote Access Service (RAS) programme. Using a secure communication network, engineers from Zacmi can connect to machines – anywhere in the world – to deliver a range of value-added services, including monitoring and troubleshooting; start-up & process streamlining; uptime optimisation; and software patching, updating & enhancement.
The programme also offers Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities. Using a smartphone, tablet or smart glasses, end users can interact virtually with Zacmi’s support team in real time or via photo and video messages.
Automatic hygiene, flexibility, and sustainability: beverage canning benefits at Drinktec
Zacmi is well-known in the food and preservative industries, but it is now making inroads into the beverage sector due to the quality of its machine design and the capabilities it provides users.
According to Marco Motta, Area Sales Manager at ZACMI: “We are famous in the food and preservative market, with successful installations all over the globe, but Drinktec gave us the capability to highlight our expertise in the beverage market too. We offer a number of neat solutions,” he continues, “which will deliver the same levels of success and integration that we have seen in other markets. Our piston filler, equipped with a vertical valve, is perfect for many types of drinks and liquids, including those containing solid ingredients, such as fruit, where the shape and integrity of the solid ingredient is 100% maintained to give the consumer the best possible quality”.
“Of particular interest to the beverage market,” he explains, “is the fact that it exhibits a high-hygienic design too. It can be cleaned completely automatically, without any operator intervention, which is an incredibly attractive feature to big companies in the beverage market who are looking to automate as deeply as possible.”
Quality of products with the smart handling CO2 system for carbonated drinks
Zacmi is also well known for its seamer technology. “Our seaming machines offer the same hygienic design, with all primary elements being fabricated from stainless steel,” Motta explains. “They also use oil as a lubricant, which is far cleaner than older grease-based systems, and they can be completely foam cleaned… again 100% automatically”.
“We have also developed a smart way to handle CO2 for carbonated drinks and beers. Our system is able to close the can in such a way that the 02 pick-up is negligible, which greatly improves the quality of the product and its shelf life”
Finally, the company’s pasteurizers feature many innovative aspects too. “With our pasteurizer technologies we have concentrated in sustainability,” Motta concludes, “by closely managing energy use and reducing their CO2 footprint. In fact, our smart design allows users to closely tailor all energy parameters, helping to minimize the cost to the customer… and to the environment.”
