Most lines chain a forming machine, a sealer and a punch across a hall. Nova 360 folds all three onto a single servo-driven rotary turntable — a blister or tray is formed, sealed and cut to its finished outline as the table indexes, from one compact frame run by one operator.
Forming, sealing and cutting become stations around one turntable instead of three machines in a row.
A full combined-tool swap in under two minutes — the machine detects the tool and loads its recipe.
Servo-driven motion and seal force — far less compressed air, and programmable, logged values.
Two stations, one process head
Nova 360 has just two stations, half a turn apart, and one process head. Everything — forming, sealing and cutting — happens at the process station, all in the same position, while the other nest is unloaded and reloaded. Each 180° index swaps them, so every half-turn delivers a finished pack.
Behind the fixed heating plate at station 2, a secondary plate slides in beneath it — so the two plates can hold two different temperatures, each matched to its material. Sequence and parameters are fully programmable, which is often essential in medical-device work, where dissimilar materials each have to meet their own validated temperature profile.
Everything InnovaPax makes fits Nova 360
The tooling, the materials and the services aren’t separate catalogues — they’re the pieces that make one pack on one machine. Nova 360 is where they meet.
Thermoforming, sealing, cutting — or all three as one combined tool. Nova 360 auto-detects the tool and loads its recipe.
Explore tooling →Stocked PETG and the wider material library — forming films and lidding matched to the pack, ready to run.
Explore materials →Packaging design, validation and full traceability — from first pack to a validated, logged production run.
Explore services →What Nova 360 brings together
The tooling, control and traceability that usually live in separate machines — folded into one turntable.
Three processes in one station on the turntable — a finished pack every index.
Electric drive for motion and force — far less compressed air, fully programmable.
Mount a tool and the validated recipe loads itself — setup is a recall, not re-entry.
Independent forming and sealing temperatures protect heat-sensitive product.
Every run synced to the cloud — batch records and parameter logs, reachable anywhere.
Parameters outside the window are flagged before the pack ships.
Prove a pack on a soft tool, move the same geometry to aluminium — same machine.
< 1 m², single operator, height-adjustable and cleanroom-compatible.
Servo-driven table and seal press
Nova 360 drives both the rotary table and the seal pressure with servo motors instead of pneumatic cylinders. That removes two of the thirstiest compressed-air consumers on the machine — and turns table position and seal force into programmable, repeatable, logged values that feed straight into traceability.
Free air at 6 bar, ~7:1 expansion, double-acting.
the table & seal press
Engineering estimate for the two servo-replaced actuators (Ø200 × 40 mm seal cylinder + Ø60, 180° rotary), at 6 bar and ~7:1 free-air expansion. Actual savings depend on duty, pressure, compressor efficiency and your tariff — figures are planning aids, not guarantees.
Three processes, matched to your tool
A heated top plate warms the film and distributes forming pressure into the cavity — trays and blisters up to 100 mm deep, or drop in a preformed tray and skip straight to sealing.
Thermoforming tooling →A servo press seals lidding to the flange under controlled force, time and temperature — full-area, flange-specific or knurled seals, with heat differentiation between forming and sealing.
Sealing tooling →The sealed pack is cut to its finished outline and separated from the web — clean edges, consistent corner radii, ready to pack straight off the table.
Cutting tooling →Build form, seal and cut into a single tool on a shared datum and Nova 360 runs the whole pack in one indexed pass — the tightest registration and the fastest cycle.
It knows the tool before you do
Mount a tool and Nova 360 identifies it and loads the validated parameter recipe — temperatures, dwell, servo force and cut depth — so setup is a recall, not a re-entry. That’s how a complete combined-tool change lands under two minutes and the plates reach 120 °C in under three.
A production cell that fits on a bench
Because the process is folded around one table rather than strung along a line — and servo drives replace the big air cylinders — Nova 360 fits a cleanroom bench, quiet and low on utilities, quick to validate.
Three machines’ work, on one bench
A conventional line buys, installs and validates a thermoformer, a tray sealer and a die cutter — three footprints, three suppliers, three validation runs, and product handled between each. Nova 360 folds all three around one turntable.
One machine to buy, install and commission — not three.
Three footprints collapse to a single bench cell.
One IQ/OQ/PQ on one machine, not three separate runs.
One vendor, one service contract, one spares list.
One machine, three configurations
Every Nova — at any forming width — is built in three levels, from flexible entry to fully validated. Each configuration includes everything in the one before it.
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Nova 360 is being built now — get on the list
We’re developing Nova 360 with pilot partners. Register your interest to help shape it, get early specs and reserve an early-access slot.
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Specifications
Nova 360 · indicativePre-production figures for planning. Final specification is confirmed for your product, materials and volume.
Output depends on pack layout, depth and material. Figures are engineering planning aids, not a quotation or guarantee.
From R&D to low- and medium-volume production
Validated blisters and trays for devices and drugs, with the logged audit trail regulated work needs.
Prove a pack, run first articles and small batches on the same machine you’ll scale on.
Fast tool changes and reprogrammable modes make short runs and frequent product changes economical.
Common questions
Can I buy one now?+
Nova 360 is in active development, built with pilot partners. It isn’t on general sale yet — but you can join the waitlist to reserve an early-access slot, receive updated specifications and help shape the machine before launch.
Why servo instead of pneumatic?+
The rotary table and the seal press are servo-driven, so they don’t consume compressed air the way big pneumatic cylinders do — we estimate roughly 19 litres of free air per cycle removed (a Ø200 × 40 mm seal cylinder plus a Ø60, 180° rotary actuator), around 21,000 m³ a year on a single-shift duty. Servo also makes seal force and table position programmable, repeatable and logged — better for validation, quieter, and lighter on utilities.
Does it really form, seal and cut in one machine?+
Yes. The three processes are stations around one rotary turntable, so a pack is thermoformed, sealed and die-cut to its finished outline within a single frame — no separate forming machine, sealer and punch. You can also run form-only or seal-only when you don’t need the full pack.
How does traceability work?+
Built-in data logging records operator, batch and the full parameter set — temperatures, servo force, dwell and cut — against each cycle, and syncs it to the cloud. That gives a time-stamped, remotely accessible audit trail that supports IQ/OQ/PQ, CAPA and ISO 13485 workflows and exports to your QMS.
Which materials does it run?+
Common forming films — PETG, APET, PET, PP and PVC — with lidding from medical paper and Tyvek to foil, film and board. We match the forming film and lidding to your pack from the InnovaPax material library, and Nova 360 runs our stocked PETG straight away.
What footprint and services does it need?+
Under a square metre of floor and a 3×400 V + PE supply. Because the table and press are servo-driven, compressed-air demand is low — mainly light clamping and ejection. It’s height-adjustable, cleanroom-compatible and semi-automatic, run by a single operator.
Everything that meets on the table
Nova 360 is the machine — the tooling, materials and services are what make it produce your pack.
The servo turntable that forms, seals and cuts.
You are hereForm, seal, cut — and combined tools.
View hub →Forming films and lidding, incl. stocked PETG.
View hub →From packaging design to logged production.
View hub →Be first in line for Nova 360
It’s in development now. Join the waitlist to reserve an early-access slot and help shape the machine — or talk to us about your pack.