Enimac was founded in 2013 by a tape converter in northern Italy, Biemme Adesivi. The synergy created gave clients in Italy access not only to tape, but to machines, better known as tape application solutions. Over the years, Enimac has slowly expanded this philosophy worldwide by partnering with tape companies and tape converters to add its automation to their tapes, offering their clients the same complete tape and automation solution.
Today, Enimac’s headquarters are situated in Cornaredo on the outskirts of Milan in Italy, where the company continues its work to design, develop, and manufacture solutions for applying adhesive tape.
Enimac’s extensive history has made them a household name in the industry and is why the company is trusted by many long-term clients. “We started out by making table-top and standalone tape application machines for the printing and packing industries. As these machines can be used to apply tape to any flat substrate up to 15mm thick and 1.6m wide, we had requests from other industries who used the machine to apply tapes to aluminium and PVC sheets. Additional industries took interest requiring other types of customised solutions, and we have since made 2-axis application solutions used in EV battery production in the automotive and ship building industries as well as 3-axis and multi-axis solutions for the white goods and furniture industries. As robots and cobots are found in industries everywhere, we’ve developed an ‘end-of-arm’ applicator to integrate onto these, with solutions used in the automotive, white goods, and other industries. Of course, we customise applicators to integrate into production lines or other machines as well,” stated Martin Buerger, company vice president.
Enimac has recently completed some modules with more axes, including the XT Multicartesian that consists of 3 rows and 2-axis linear actuators with applicators capable of applying tape and rewinding the liner. Martin explains XT Multicartesian in more detail, “This module adds a taping solution to a much larger production line. The applicators adjust for the thickness of the panel and move left and right to apply the tape where needed. A panel comes down the production line, passes through the taping module where tape is applied removing the liner with the panel coming out ready for the next assembly process. This applicator can apply tape from pancake rolls or, by integrating a spool unwinder, also from traverse wound spools.”
This type of solution has been sold to previous furniture manufacturing companies who apply foam tapes to wood panels, but Enimac ensures the solution can also work with similar flat panels using different tapes in other industries.
Enimac has been keen to showcase its new solutions to the tape industry, as well as explore, learn and gather insight on all the latest innovations and technologies available to the tape and adhesive industry.
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