Company

Sure Torque has been developing and manufacturing automatic closure torque testing systems for the packaging industry since 1984.

Since its foundation, Sure Torque has been a pioneer in closure torque testing. Almost all of the sophisticated test features now commonly used in closure torque testing were first introduced by Sure Torque.

Sure Torque was founded by Géza E. Bánkuty in 1984. Born in Hungary in 1926, Mr. Bánkuty won the Hungarian motorcycle championship several times before 1956. After taking an active part in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he was forced to leave Hungary when the revolution was suppressed. He was unable to return to his home country until 1988.

After emigrating to the United States, he completed his studies and built his career in the packaging industry. Alongside his business activities, he remained actively involved in the Hungarian community.

His first company, New England Machinery, became a leading developer and manufacturer of bottle unscrambling machinery. In 1984, he founded Sure Torque, Inc. to develop and manufacture fully automatic, high-precision closure torque testing systems.

Sure Torque Europe was founded in Hungary in 2004 by Mr. Bánkuty and his partner, Zsolt Magyary-Kossa, who continues to lead the company today. Building on Mr. Bánkuty’s pioneering approach, Sure Torque Europe has continued to develop new testing technologies and expand its product range for the packaging industry and quality control applications.

Over the years, Mr. Bánkuty gradually reduced his involvement in the business and fully withdrew from Sure Torque Europe in 2013.

The SmartLoadCell concept also originated from our work in closure torque testing. We soon recognised, however, that the technology could provide significant benefits in a much wider range of force and torque measurement applications. For this reason, SmartLoadCell was developed as an independent product brand alongside Sure Torque.

Today, thousands of Sure Torque testing instruments and systems are in use worldwide across a wide range of industries. Sure Torque Europe alone has manufactured and delivered more than 1,500 systems since its foundation in 2004.

The longevity of our equipment is equally important to us. Many Sure Torque systems delivered about 20 years ago are still in daily operation and are regularly returned to us for their scheduled calibration and service.

Our customers include leading companies in the packaging, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, cosmetics and chemical industries, including:

Packaging industry
Alcoa CSI (CSS)
ALPLA
AROL
BERICAP
Berry Bender
Capmatic
corvaglia
Crown Cork
Guala Closures
Krones
Obrist
Pelliconi
PROCAP
UNITED CAPS
Universal Closures
Zalkin (ProMach)

Pharmaceutical industry
Abbott
Bayer
Baxter
Chiesi
Cipla
Desitin
Egis
Eli Lilly
GSK
Intervet
Merck Millipore (Sigma-Aldrich)
Nordmark
Novartis
Orion
Pioneer
Pfizer
Richter
Roche
Sandoz
SC Johnson
SCHOTT
Teva
União Química

Food and beverage industry
AB InBev
Carlsberg
Coca-Cola
Diageo
Eckes
Heineken
Hero
HiPP
Kraft
Mattoni
Molson Coors
Nestlé
Pepsi
Pernod Ricard
Rauch
San Benedetto
Tropicana
Waldquelle

Cosmetic and chemical industry
Aptar
Bleko Chemie
Chemark
Chemineau
COTY
Kwizda
Lehnkering
Procter & Gamble
Shell
Schirm
Syngenta
Twiga
Veika